Got revised and trimmed draft of chapter for edited volume off to editors, who sound appreciative (even if I failed to quite grasp all the minutiae of the somewhat arcane bibliographic conventions in play, sigh).
Purportedly have a couple of web articles forthcoming shortly.
Feeling as if I don't have much on hand at present: there's the book for ( Read more... )

Well, I have had ticking over over the past months various academic things, but I lately cleared off my desk/to-do list a second round of article-reviewing, providing a blurb for a book, and revisions to two things for a web project. And nothing else immediately on hand (presumably there will be proofs of the 2 chapters somewhere in press, some ( Read more... )

Have, yay, sent off the review that has been on my conscience for far too long.
And find myself Not Totally Irrelevant - my Xpertise solicited over several historical areas in which I have form, via Twitter, this week.
Admittedly, one instance was, 'able to contribute vague recollection of something that was said when I met the person in question ( Read more... )

Well, focusing on what 2018 was like for me...
It did not start terribly well, I was quite depressed in January, partly due to its being the anniversary of my father's death and partly due to partner having a bad and lingering go of that nasty flu that was going around in spite of having had the relevant jab some months previous.
However.
I managed ( Read more... )

But it's not necessary to follow them absolutely.
I normally start the year by posting a list of my most commented posts from the previous year, but, as I had noticed at the time, commenting seemed to be down considerably during 2016: I'm not sure if this was a general phenomenon, or a reflection upon the quality of my posts. The most commented ( Read more... )

Number of posts during the year: 688. Number of comments received: 3623
Most commented-upon posts (as always, I don't know how this maps to 'most-read'): NB Rote (Sumwut) Sarkastykle (83)
Over-familiar historical characters (68)
This is a recurrent aaaaarghness (58)
What is reenactable and why, and by whom? (54)
What is the compliment saying? (50)
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Still getting used to this retirement lark - I think it probably needs rather more time during which I'm not inundated with Stuff and bopping off to conferences etc to get into something that's more of a routine.
I went in to the Former Workplace, Where I Still Have A Place To Hang My Hat (if I wore a hat), picked up a parcel, found that my new ( Read more... )

Fascinating thoughtful post by
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Just possibly I am facing this with a slightly greater equanimity than might be the case, but on the other hand, possibly not.
Work is fairly frantic with various rather pressing things having turned up during my absence.
On top of which, I am supposed to be giving a commentary at a workshop on Friday on a draft book chapter which at present only ( Read more... )

(Except for that time I was on the train for 4 days with no connectivity.)
But if there are topics where you have ever thought 'I wonder what
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