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Objects and Remembering
After an absence of six months, I have decided to use this blog as a kind of notebook again. From September, I am co-teaching a third year course on ‘Historians and Material Culture’. Having learned that the best way to … Continue reading
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Bye Bye Sam Alex
Tomorrow I will lead my last seminar at the University of Manchester, where I have taught on and off since 2006 and have been attached to in various capacities for fourteen years. I am very much looking forward to starting … Continue reading
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Journal of Victorian Culture Online: Archival Fiction and the Mill My review of Channel 4’s historical drama The Mill on the Journal of Victorian Culture Online Blog. Some thoughts about the nature of archives and the experience of research, & also … Continue reading
Additions and Ornaments to the Bare Grant of a Living: Elizabeth Gaskell, the ‘Manchester Guardian’ and Cultural Value in 1914
When doing some research for a small project I am involved in, I came across this wonderful passage on the value of the arts in the Manchester Guardian, written in the context of a campaign to purchase Mrs Gaskell’s house … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronte, cultural value, culture, Elizabeth Gaskell, heritage, literary relics, literary tourism, literature, Manchester, material culture, Plymouth Grove, Shelley
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Probably there are many different explanations as to what love really is …
Lyn and I have had two years of married life together – we married at a very difficult time, yet I would not change the life for any other – it gives me a sense of security, one feels with … Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Langhamer, diaries, emotion, Frank Forster, history of emotions, love, Lyn Forster, marriage
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Reading Historical Literature Critically: Tips For Success
I’ve had a few lecturers ask me if they can use the reading advice that I posted on twitter a few weeks ago in workshops with students, so I have decided to put it on my blog to make it … Continue reading
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‘The greatly varied procession of phenomena’: reflecting on history and the everyday
A short post just because I want to note something that came to mind today while gatecrashing a wonderful workshop led by Amber Regis on the ‘everyday’ for Storying Sheffield. As Amber talked about how Henri Lefebvre claimed that, despite … Continue reading
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