Early Modern Whale

A lengthy ride with my cycle club yesterday, up and down the Chilterns till we reached Wendover. Traversing this landscape made me think of...

On t he 17 t h July 1579 t he queen was in her ‘privie barge’ on t he river be t ween Greenwich and Dep t ford, and wi t h her t he Fre...

I’m being encouraged to find out about early modern swimming (no, seriously, I am), not I think much considered since Michael West plung...

Thanks to the assistance of our highly trained auxiliary staff, marking on this year's Renaissance Literature paper is moving rapidly to...

I have been doing various bits of marking, and otherwise, in the evenings, I watch tapes of the day’s stage in the Giro d’Italia : a lot of...

I bought these two old photographs because I liked them. No provenance at all, though the rather bohemian gentleman with his daughter is on ...

‘Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close’ has been a large a part of my life in the last month or so, and so my PC is getting ...

I somehow found my way t o William Basse’s Spenserian eclogue, ‘The Me t amorphosis of t he Walnu t Tree of Bores t all’. I t involves ...

I have spen t t he week reading a doc t oral t hesis, a t ask from which almos t any t hing could dis t rac t me, even t he ex t re...