by eleanorh | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The best moments of my Post Doc? Collaborating with brilliant minds by co-authoring pieces or co-teaching courses together. Hardest moments? Probably collaborating! Especially on journal articles; it can be a long, drawn-out process, which requires a lot of...
by eleanorh | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
It has been a tough, surreal year for all of us. Covid-19 has changed the way we study, work and communicate. My doctoral research is on an 18th century print collection in Malta. I had planned to catalogue all 4,500 prints in my first year of part-time study, but,...
by eleanorh | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Marion Thain’s blog is about “public questions of English cultural identities”: she asks if we, as a discipline (named, after all, for a national identity) “have a particular opportunity to contribute, collectively, distinctive resources and expertise to this debate”?...
by eleanorh | Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
In my early teens a friend of my father’s, a GP and historian manqué, lent me a copy of Hans Zissner’s Rats, Lice and History and got me hooked on plagues. They are terrifying, of course, because, whatever refuges we construct for ourselves from common sense,...
by eleanorh | Nov 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to list a few of my favourite things. No, not raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, nor even warm woollen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings come close to the mark, although the packages were...
by eleanorh | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
This piece was originally published on the University of Reading’s Special Collections blog. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, I thought I would have to place my PhD research on hold. The stakes for me were high: only a few months before in October 2019 I had...
