Various academics have been getting excited about MOOCs (massive open online courses) recently: especially Clay Shirky who's claiming that it will "disrupt" … more
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academic life
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An Academic Life at the International Medieval Congress
@ 2012-07-17 – 13:56:25
The International Medieval Congress at Leeds will be relocating next year to the city-centre, so prompting intermittent waves of nostalgia this year, … more -
Making charters useful
@ 2012-01-16 – 21:37:14
I finished at the Fitzwilliam Museum at the end of December and started a new job last week: as Postdoctoral Research Associate on the new King's College … more -
What to buy early medievalists for Christmas
@ 2011-12-08 – 21:15:41
My book is now available in the UK and the US (price 60 GBP/99 USD): Further details and preview at CUP website. Obviously, you should buy it if … more -
Gender, politics and history
@ 2011-07-24 – 20:55:29
I'm still trying to finish off the proofs of my book and think up something coherent to say about the International Medieval Congress 2011 (in between … more -
IMC: 2011 bloggers meet-up and 2012 Hincmar CFP
@ 2011-07-04 – 08:01:34
For those going to the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next week, Jonathan Jarrett and myself are organising a bloggers' meetup. This will be … more -
Ambition and the 'research-active' cleric
@ 2011-07-02 – 16:22:59
Towards the end of May at the IHR Earlier Medieval Seminar we had Bernard Gowers (currently John Arnold, but soon to be Alice Rio) talking on "Stabilitas … more -
Blues, Indexing
@ 2011-05-07 – 21:18:45
Just to say that the combination of several weeks travelling and then being tied up with the compiling the index for my book means the blogging hiatus … more -
Why gay monks are good to think with
@ 2011-02-28 – 10:42:09
I don’t consider myself primarily as a historian of sexuality, although I’ve touched on the topic in my work on masculinity. To the extent that I have … more -
The 'so what' problem
@ 2010-12-16 – 10:09:32
In some ways, the harshest critique that you can hear after a historian's conference paper (though it's normally only expressed in private, or obliquely … more
