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St Paul’s Cathedral: preachers and protesters
If you walk by St Paul’s Cathedral tomorrow morning, you’ll see the Occupy camp hanging up duvets and blankets, letting the morning dew dry in time for another night under canvas. Theirs may be more an...
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Preoccupied with archives? Or, what is my PhD for?
Sometimes you go to a lecture, maybe a very good lecture, maybe by a bona fide expert and writer of books you admire, but a lecture nonetheless that you just can’t follow, no matter how many times you...
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A Christmas Commonplace
Before iPads and blackberries, internet bookmarks and intelligent browsers, there was the commonplace book. I might be excising a few paper-based stages there, but the seventeenth century commonplace...
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Digital Humanities, the Devonshire Manuscript and social knowledge
As frequent readers may have guessed, I have in recent months been getting more and more interested in that nebulous world often described as the ‘digital humanities’ (they might also have noticed the...
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The Permissive Archive, or why have I been elbow-deep in paper for four years?
Last week, I passed my viva and was granted my PhD. That explains the dearth of posts in recent months, as I have been frantically polishing, submitting, reading and trying to get my head around what...
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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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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Running 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...
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The 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...
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News 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...
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Early 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....
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Networks, 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...
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Archives, 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...
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Early 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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