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And I’m not yet back in the habit of writing a blog post on a Friday afternoon. But yesterday I’d have been a bit busy – I was marking essays for the PGCert course I’ve been teaching and then in the evening I was singing in a concert with The Valley Singers in Hurst Green.…

It’s been a long week. The early bird rate for the Social History Society Conference closes this evening, so I’ve spent a lot of time answering emails and recording bookings – much more than normal. On top of that, I’ve had to teach an extra three-hour session for my Special Subject, because it had to…

I knew I hadn’t posted much lately, but I didn’t realise that there had been quite so little for so long… I’ve got lots to catch up on, then. So this post will be a brief rundown of what I’ve been up to, and there will, I hope, be more on many of these points…

In early December I took my third-year special subject students on a field trip to the John Rylands Library in Manchester. At least that was the plan. In the event, I took part remotely while the students visited in person, but even so, it was really interesting to get out of the university and to…

Thursday 14 October, at 7.30pm BST (online) John Balshaw’s Jigge by Dr Jenni Hyde – online book launch of the latest Lancaster University Regional Heritage Centre publication (joint event with Friends of Lancashire Archives) This new book presents the first published transcription of a little-known manuscript, originating in 17th century Lancashire and now held by the British Library (Add. MS  68891).  The document…

It’s been a long old summer, and there hasn’t been a lot of rest. I’ve spent most of it revising my article on John Haywood for publication, checking the proofs for John Balshaw’s Jigge (more to come on this soon, but… Spoiler Alert- it’s now on sale through the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University)…

This is the second of two posts about some of the papers I managed to catch up on after the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World Conference. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to listen to everything and I only managed to listen to two of the Keynotes. One was by Rosa Salzberg (Warwick) on ‘The…

Because I was administering the Social History Society Conference a couple of weeks ago, I largely missed two other conferences at which I was actually speaking! I’m glad to say that both were recorded, so I’ve been able to catch up on them later, although to be honest, I simply haven’t had the time to…

Much of my time over the last couple of months has been taken up by organising the Social History Society Online Conference and by the time you read this, it will just have finished. My role has been to co-ordinate more than 100 speakers and host most of the panels (quietly in the background –…