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A very junior academic’s dilemmas
The history department within which I work has just instituted a system of research mentoring groups. These informal groups of people with loosely (sometimes very loosely) connected research interests...
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Leading scholarly journals in history
For anyone else experiencing dilemmas as described in the previous post, I managed to find, buried in the AHRC website, a list of so-called leading scholarly journals drawn up in conjunction with the...
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Rowan Williams tree decoration
I posted in March about the ultimate in Anglican religious kitsch – the archbishops of York and Canterbury tree decorations. This morning, Rowan Williams in decoration form fell through my letter box,...
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Journal rankings continued
A recent piece in the Times Higher gives hope for those concerned about the impact of the EHIR’s journal list on research and how it is judged. The Higher reports that the EHIR is scrapping the...
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Reuter Lecture and workshop 2009
The Reuter Lecture 2009 ‘Judges and judging: truth and justice in tenth-century northern Iberia’ will be given by Prof. Wendy Davis on 8 June at 6pm Avenue Campus, University of Southampton. This will...
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Thinking about space (and time) in chronicles
In my last post I commented on how the problems faced by relativists trying to show time and space in representations of black holes seemed similar to the difficulties faced by historians trying to...
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Oops
I’ve just realised my last post – now deleted – was just a more anxious repeat of something I wrote in November (with a few things added). Apologies to everyone: I am clearly losing my, always tenuous,...
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Briefly…
I have been submerged lately under the impact of the Normans in southern Italy among other things. The three remaining posts on the Ford lectures will be up soon(ish).
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Time for school
At five years old this blog really should be growing up, socialising with other kids, and starting on the hard pedagogical grind that leads to exams, success (?) and the joys of HE. However, we started...
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Emerging from the depths
Both Reivers and I have been absent from this blog for a while now. Frankly, there has just been too much to do to blog (see the previous post). There is still too much to do, but one or two things...
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