Freelance research and the sixteenth century CV
This blog has been the oft-ignored ugly sister to my ADD PhD, the latter always clamouring for more and more attention, and probably pulling the blog’s hair when it thought no-one was looking. Being...
View ArticleThe end of the beginning
Yesterday, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about where I am now, post-phd, pre-job, early career, whatever you want to call it. Post-phd can be a difficult time: you’ve spent the last few...
View ArticleThe Permissive Archive – a review
In November 2012, the graduate students of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters put on a one-day conference to mark CELL’s ten year anniversary. ‘The Permissive Archive’ was the result of a year of...
View ArticleRunning a Conference – The Permissive Archive and Learning by Doing
This blog post, as promised, is about some of the practical, behind the scenes details of the Permissive Archive conference, which was run by the graduate students of the Centre for Editing Lives and...
View ArticleThe problem with the history of news?
Early modern news networks: workshop in Venice. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a fascinating workshop on early modern news networks. If you’re wondering what ‘news networks’ actually means, or you’re...
View ArticleNews and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750
Reblogged from Early Modern News Networks: Conference at Queen Mary, University of London, 26-28th July 2013 Registration open: http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html Join us this...
View ArticleEarly modern handwriting
Re-blogged Storify by Lizzy Williamson Fri, Jun 14 2013 02:31:28 Early modern handwriting Snippets and links from a conference by Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), on 25 April 2013....
View ArticleNetworks, case studies and the big picture: some reflections
Reblogged from Early Modern News Networks: Following on from our successful conference last month, News Networks is busy once again, this time in producing a two-volume edition that aims to...
View ArticleArchives, practices and paper: thoughts from Munich
I’m writing this blog on the plane home from Munich, where I’ve been at a conference for the last few days. I was invited by the lovely Prof. Markus Friedrich, who was on the same panel as me at The...
View ArticleEarly modern archiving – two conferences
A quick heads up about two conferences on early modern archiving, definitely worthy of a quick post to share links, considering the content of my last piece. CFP: ‘Early Modernists and the Archives,...
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