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Fasiculus Morum: A Fourteenth-Century Preacher’s Handbook
Harris Manchester College. Unknown copyright. Last night I went with (actual Historian) Andy to hear our friend Elizabeth give her first DPhil paper to Oxford’s Medieval Church and Culture Seminar....
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia Road Flower Market, London, 2010. The first Columbia Road market was conceived in 1869 as an attempt to wean costermongers from the streets. Today, the Sunday morning flower market in...
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The History of the English Language: (1943) and (2011)
Competing (and interestingly conflicting) histories of the English language. The first is by the British Council, produced in 1943, with according anti-German propaganda, emphasis on John of Gaunt’s...
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CFP: Victorian Network
Call for Papers: Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Literature and Culture Nothing will ever be funnier than this image, and if you think otherwise, you are wrong. Victorian Network is an...
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Advent Calendar Day 14: Wenceslas!
In this clip, performers from the BBC Horrible Histories show debunk the myth behind one of my favourite carols. You can also see them do something similar for the medieval wassail.
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Career planning for the frivolous.
The finishing line of my DPhil is apparently in sight. I’ve rewritten and deleted this paragraph a lot, obviously, but the gist is that I have to send my Faculty a schedule for completion, and my...
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[CFP]: Victorian Dirt
Victorian Network is an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate and early career work across the broad field of Victorian Studies....
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