Other Writing
Beyond my academic work, I’ve written an awful lot over the years, for a variety of platforms. These have ranged from a blog on my Year Abroad in France as an undergraduate, to a personal blog at the start of my PhD, to my more recent work managing the Centre for Medieval Studies blog here at Exeter.
One of my reasons for making this site has been to bring all of these pieces of writing together one place that I can manage, as link rot starts to make itself felt across various blog platforms and websites. This page may well therefore be of less interest to you, but if you’re genuinely interested in my opinions on the SNCF, circa 2013, or my 2020 writing on teaching Walter de Bibbesworth’s Tretiz via Zoom, do take a look around.
An important note: these blog posts are largely unedited from when they were first published. I’ve done my best to fix (or just remove) broken links, but more generally, I’d strongly advise against using any of these pages as advice (particularly important when discussing, for instance, the structure of undergraduate courses from over a decade ago).
Posts
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'Learning French in Medieval England': introducing an exciting new project!
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Saintly monarchs and cities of strangers at the annual Orme Day
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On crippling inadequacy, #remoteretreat, and chocolate cheesecake brownies
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An introduction to concordances: now with added violence
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An interview with Rachel Rose Reid
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Research Postcard: courtesy books and college libraries
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Digitising the Exeter Book
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The Flitch of Bacon: an unexpected journey through the collections of the British Library
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A tale of two conferences, II: Researching and Teaching the Medieval Now, York
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A tale of two conferences, I: the International Medieval Congress, Leeds
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This guy wrote a blog post about Asperger's. What happened next will shock you
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My experience with Asperger's: studying, socialising, and starting to speak up
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The Feast of Orme
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Mapping the troubadours: Miriam Cabré at the Centre for Medieval Studies
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Digitisation, archive.org, and ways of reading
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Reflections from the Ruddigorchestra
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Extra-curricular activities, or 'doing things that aren't the PhD
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'Ugly' manuscripts: MS Douce 210, Oxford
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Office space
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Teaching, part two (and Gilbert & Sullivan)
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Real-life meetings and digital humanities
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Responsible adult supervision
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Inductions and introductions
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Learning / teaching
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I made a thing!
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What exactly is 'Anglo-Norman'?
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An actual PhD update
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Medieval didactic literature
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Drawing conclusions
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Academic Diaries: 2016-17
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Academic Diaries: The Student Planner
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Academic Diaries: Les Back
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Spare me the 'lecteur' - Part 4
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Spare me the 'lecteur' - Part 3
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First steps in Exeter
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Spare me the 'lecteur' - Part 2
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Spare me the 'lecteur' - Part 1
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Conference Write-Up: LIMITS (4th May 2016)
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The 'So-What?' Question
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An introduction to medieval French literature
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Some summer French reading: an interview with Clémentine Beauvais
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All the world's a stage
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Going clubbing
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Things I like, no. 2: the *boulangerie*
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Coxing in French, part two
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Things I like, no. 1: the SNCF
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How does a *lycée* work?
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The first two weeks back
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Things I'm learning from teaching
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Good news, bad news, great news
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I'm not very good at this!
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I can explain ...
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Unexpected holidays
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Things I've learned this week
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Poorly-attributed questions
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The joys of magnetic board rubbers
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Coxing in French
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'Get on with it!'
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'Une grande bienvenue au sein de notre académie.'
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My first day, and other such clichéd titles
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Sixteen Hours. (And Mika.)
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Forty-Eight Hours
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