A new HE institution in the UK
Various articles on the BBC website and the Sunday newspapers report the foundation of something called the ‘New College of the Humanities‘ under the mastership of A.C. Grayling whose brainchild it...
View ArticleFive years on
It would appear that On boundaries is five years old. Given my readiness to hide away for periods of time and Reivers’ general unwillingness to communicate through the medium of words, it is a small...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleLux arumque: joy, music, beauty
Yesterday I was late leaving the house. As I pride myself on organisation and punctuality, this was a rare event. Part of the reason lies in a change in my morning listening habits from Radio4 and the...
View ArticleLooking forward to … Leeds IMC 2011
July is nearly here, which means the annual International Medieval Congress at Leeds is just around the corner with all its madness. I tried explaining this conference to a modern historian friend who...
View ArticleIMC Leeds 2011 report, I: southern Italian Normans
Best Leeds ever just about sums up IMC just gone. If last year was all about ‘good papers, good beer and good company‘, then this year’s IMC continued that theme with better weather and an energy about...
View ArticleIMC Leeds 2011 report, II: Normans and Norman historians
Tuesday’s sessions continued the Norman theme with the strand ‘Normans, Normandy and the wider Norman world: 911 from a 2011 perspective’, bookended by David Bates and me, a fact which in no small way...
View ArticleIMC Leeds 2011 report, III (finally!): how to chair a rebellion and other tales
Yes, yes, the conference was in July and now it’s October, and yes, I’ve been to several conferences since Leeds and no, I haven’t written those up either. A combination of circumstances has meant that...
View ArticleFor I consider this blog…
With due apologies to Christopher Smart and his cat Jeoffrey For I consider this blog. For my activity has been limited this term. For I apologise to any readers still left. For this I perform in ten...
View ArticleEmerging 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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