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18/02/2017 19/02/2017 ukhistorygeek Leave a comment
I'm convinced that there is the necessity for a new verb to be developed. Of course, that's not difficult – the English Language is constantly developing and growing and new words are being developed and being accepted all the time (the OED brings out a quarterly list that usually makes the papers, for example). And indeed, such new words have recently been the focus of discussion between one of my teachers and me. I keep creating new words like 'churchwardenate' (a noun, when discussing the churchwarden's position as a whole, in the generic, in the way that you might use 'teacher' or 'soldier'). While he admitted that the word 'sounded' right, it wasn't in the OED and therefore I shouldn't use it. "Stick to the OED", I was advised. "You can subvert the language after you've got your certificate!". And I've grudgingly come to admit that he's quite right too.
But in this case, I really think that a new verb is required. Not for me to use in my thesis either. It's to do with the practice of writing articles. Most people know now that for an academic, writing is critical. "Publish, or Perish!" is frequently heard, and according to the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, was first used back in 1927. Indeed, it is even more critical in British academia with the advent and pervasive demands of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Publishing is therefore constantly on the would-be academic's mind. If they do a good piece of work, how best to publish it? How many articles CAN they realistically get out of it (the practice of salami-slicing being much maligned)?
And that's where my would-be verb would come in. I was thinking about this yesterday: I was notified that a revised version of my MA dissertation, which I had submitted for a prize, had won said prize. YAY! BUT, so my immediate next bit of thinking went, 'if it's good enough to win a prize, surely it's good enough to publish'? (In the great Job Hunt as an early career researcher, having publishing credits really, really helps.) Hence the need for the verb. A word that describes the practice of turning an essay or dissertation or parts of a thesis into an article. Articlearise? Articlearite? Neither of those will do. Suggesions? Maybe you feel that no 'new' verb would be needed at all. But I just keep wanting to say… "I've got to [verb] this".
Regardless of the verb, however, what is undeniable, is that this does need to be published. And, as I learned to my cost soon after I graduated with my BA, a dissertation does not an article make. I have also learned, too, of the different ways that one can relate and explain what is otherwise the same story (I am adding an eighth to that list, soon, as I will be giving a talk on the same subject to another local history society in April). My MA Dissertation, entitled "'Be kindly affectioned to one another': love and parish politics in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire"is about the Robert Foulkes case, using the documents from that case to examine how different kinds of love impacts on politics in a parish over a very short time period. At 20,000 words, it's far too big to simply be translated entirely into article form, and will need to be cut somehow (although whether I can [verb] the rest remains to be seen). The dissertation examines four different kinds of love, so it may be possible to split them – two for one article, two for another. Although that's a bit obvious. Maybe too obvious. Mmmmm. This bears thinking about.
The other thing to consider with the whole process of [verb] (see just how useful my new verb would be?) is that of identifying which journal to submit for. Any Arts and Humanities academic (and possibly a STEM one too, although I'm not so sure about that as I'm not a STEM scholar, obviously) will tell you that a major part of getting an article accepted is to ensure that you write an article FOR that journal. It seems obvious, right? There'd be no point in sending an article about matchsticks to a fashion magazine (unless it was about a dress made of matchsticks, I suppose). But no – it's a common mistake to make (I made it myself), to write an article and then look around to see who will take it. It should be the other way around. So, I have to consider who I want to submit it to – and that isn't a straight-forward question either. I have a good working relationship with the editor of one journal and I think they'd be very happy to take it, BUT, would that necessarily be the right thing for my career? There's several local history journals that I could also approach, but again, the question is: are either of them the right journal for my career? As an academic, its my job, so to speak, to get my article published in the 'best' journal that I possibly can – as it would be for any academic. For a STEM academic, the top journal might be Nature. For my kind of historian, Past and Present or the Journal of Social History might be the ones to consider (this Times Higher Education article has a list of top 20 journals in history). However, am I realistically likely to get my article into something like that? Those kinds of questions abound, and are realistically best discussed with one's supervisors (as I will be doing, when the time comes).
So, no real conclusions here (other than that my new verb is most definitely required, and I really would welcome suggestions. Maybe there is an existing verb out there that would work?). Not yet, anyway. I do need to ruminate over this – bounce the ideas from that dissertation around in my head. I'll be doing that in any case, as I've a talk and possibly 2 papers to deliver on the subject, so that will all help in terms of exploring the 'how' of telling the story. And somewhere, probably when I'm driving (I do all my best thinking when I'm driving, these days), I shall have a eureka moment. And then it's just about putting the hard work in. What was it Thomas Edison said? Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? Sounds about right – and I think it certainly applies to writing as well.
But as for the article… watch this space. Although it may be a while coming. [Verb] doesn't happen fast. The publishing process is even slower (I think last time around it was 8 months, and that was relatively quick). Eventually though, hopefully, there'll be another document out there with my name on, which will be very nice to see. And if you have a suggestion for [verb], please do leave it in the comments or something… it really is driving me up the wall!
PhD: three months+ down the line
22/01/2017 22/01/2017 ukhistorygeek 1 Comment
I think one of the things that no one ever really mentions in a PhD is how long it takes to settle down and find your feet. Surprisingly so as well. It's kind of expected at BA level – especially if you don't really know your way around your new university or place. It takes time to know where to go for XYZ, even if you know the shop you want any given item, you still have to find it, find your way around. Even more so with classes, and so on. Then there's the slow understanding of what it is that is expected of you at Uni, how to write essays, how to deliver the original contribution that they're looking for. Over the course of three years you grow – even as a mature student who knows a bit more about life and themselves (i.e. not experiencing so much the kind of self-discovery process that 18-21 year olds go through at that time) still grows. I remember learning about Gramsci and hegemony and seeing the world and history in a different way, for example. You read, and the process of reading, of absorbing, changes you – for the better. It's not just about what you're reading and learning and writing, but HOW you do it – there are certain changes that I think (and I hope) are held in common by all university students, regardless of actual subjects studied, such as the ability and awareness of the importance of questioning what you read. So, yes… these changes are expected at an undergraduate level.
At Master's level, especially if, like me, you stayed with your undergrad institution, there feels like less of this kind of development. You know your way round (both uni and city). You know the people. You know what it is that you're doing. It's shorter, of course. The pass mark may be higher, and more expected of you. The Master's degree gave me more confidence in what I'm doing and more knowledge, of course, but I don't feel that it fundamentally changed me in the same way that the BA did. Instead, it felt like it gave my BA an extra polish, if that makes sense. And while I don't want to dismiss my Master's degree, or the work that I put into it … having gone from BA to MA to PhD and graduating from my MA during my PhD it feels somewhat like the MA is more of a 'blip' in the journey towards the PhD. The BA graduation felt far more monumental, coming as it did in the summer, a month after the course ended, and before I really knew that I would be undertaking the MA. It felt more like drawing a line underneath it all. The MA graduation, as special as it was (more about that in a moment), didn't feel the same in that sense and I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking or feeling that way.
The PhD, however, feels more like the BA in terms of the potential to change me in a more fundamental way. Maybe it's because it's longer – three years, like the BA, as opposed to the 1 or 2 of the MA. It's more than that though. There is constant questioning. Questioning my ideas, my thinking. My writing is being picked apart (and if you are someone considering a PhD and you hate having your writing dissected: I'd urge you to reconsider the PhD plans or learn to love the criticism). My supervisors are questioning the use of certain words, highlighting the way I write. It's turning me into a better writer so its not an unwelcome process, I don't begrudge it (in fact, I've asked them to continue it because I KNOW it will make me a better writer). I'm reading – and no matter how much I read, it feels like it's never enough; the "to-read" pile is constantly getting higher and higher. This is good, not bad (although I cheerfully admit I'd feel happier if the "to-read" pile would go down, instead of up). It's the process of doing exactly what the PhD should do, what it says on the tin: to turn me into an expert in my field. There's a very strange change going on – I'm growing in confidence, but at the same time I'm not. Growing in confidence in my abilities, in my skills – for example, learning how to deliver presentations, talks and papers. But the constant questioning of my ideas is having the opposite effect, making me stop and think before I deliver an opinion. 'Am I really SURE about this?' This uncertainty is making me hesitate before delivering any opinion, anywhere, except the really subjective ones, like 'I love chocolate'. Oddly, I feel okay with that, mostly. I do have the occasional attacks of imposter syndrome (which is extremely common in academia) but I suspect the reason I feel okay with it is because I know that it's a) temporary and b) for good reasons. There's a huge difference between this process and the kind of way that some people behave when they try to make themselves feel better by undermining someone else, and I know that this process will make me a better academic in the long run. This is, most certainly, A Good Thing, rather than the kind of negativity that makes one want to curl up and hide.
We're frequently exhorted, as PhD students, to write. 'WRITE!', the cry goes up. No matter what, just to practice the process of putting pen to paper, fingers to keyboard. I'd echo that but I think what is just as important is the process of self-reflection, an awareness of the changes experienced over the three to four years of the PhD. I think one of the many elements that make for a successful PhD student is constant analysis, constant thinking and asking why. To give an example: on Friday, I graduated with my MA degree. It was a lovely ceremony, a lovely day – bright and cold – but throughout I was analysing, thinking and comparing the experience with that of 2.5 years earlier, in July 2014, when I graduated with my BA degree. The MA ceremony felt – to me – altogether more comfortable, more relaxed, but more serious as well. I had the same sign language interpreter for both ceremonies and I discussed this with her at the time. She agreed with me, that it felt both more serious and more relaxed, so it wasn't purely a reflection of my own emotions on the day, but more to do with the general atmosphere within the graduation hall.
I should say, for those who do not know much about academic graduations in the UK: Graduation ceremonies are different with each university. At the University of Leicester, the ceremonies are held at De Montfort Hall, which is a lovely concert hall dating from 2013. It doesn't seat many people so graduation ceremonies are smaller than some universities, and as a result, shorter. My BA ceremony in 2014 was just 2 hours long; the MA was just over 1.5 – I know some universities have graduation ceremonies that go on much, much longer. There are also more of them – the university will hold two in a day – in January, graduation lasts for 2 days (mostly for postgraduate students) and in July, for a week or so (mostly for undergraduates). There are some cross-overs, however – we had some undergrads last week, and in 2014, I remember seeing people who are now friends graduate with their MAs and PhDs. I think it is the fact that last week's ceremony was primarily made up of postgraduates, who had already experienced a graduation (if not specifically the Leicester one) and who were therefore a tad more relaxed about it – but also more serious at the same time. For undergraduates, graduation can be the end of one stage and the beginning of another – often leading to a career, to the beginning of one's life, a sense of coming of age. There was less a sense of that with a post-grad graduation, I think (although I may change my mind about that when I graduate with my PhD!). I know I enjoyed Friday's ceremony more, not because the university was doing anything particularly different, but because I was different, more relaxed. I'd learned from the 2014 experience what to do, what not to do. Wear a blouse so it's possible to attach the hood to the buttons more easily. Wear comfortable boots, rather than heels so you're not praying 'don't trip, don't trip', as you walk across the stage to shake the chancellor's hand. Pick up the cape, hood and cap early, get the photographs done and out of the way early. Don't wear a ponytail, as it'll interfere with the cap. That kind of thing. Still, I'm glad I attended graduation – it underlines the Master's. Done, dusted. Put the certificate on the wall. Order the photographs. Turn my attention back to where it should be… the PhD.
In just over a week (1st February) I have to hand in the mid-year review, which is something I have to do as a Midlands3cities-funded student. It involves writing an extended research proposal for my project, a 5,000 word sample piece of written work, and then I have to defend my progress thus far, a sort of mini-viva (the Viva Voce is the oral defence of the thesis, which I have to pass to gain my PhD, and is done after The Thesis is submitted). This is a good thing; practice in defending work done is good for the ultimate viva that I'll have to do, but I am nervous about the whole thing. There are three possible outcomes: either I pass (and can continue my studies); I am sort of on probation (i.e., I have to redo the entire thing in June); or I fail, lose my funding and probably get kicked out of university as well. We (M3C-funded students) have been assured that outright failure is very rare, and my supervisor has also tried to reassure me. I'm still nervous though, and I doubt I'm the only one. I've already written both the pieces of work that M3C require; I have two 3,000 word pieces of work which I need to amalgamate into one 5,000 piece, which is very doable, although I have had feedback on both which I need to incorporate into this new work, so there is some additional work to do there. I have also written the extended research proposal which was handed in to be marked as part of a doctoral research training module that the University of Leicester offers to all new PhD students. As an M3C student I did not have to complete (or even pass) the assignment attached to the module, which was a similar extended research proposal, but the recommendation was; do it anyway, as the practice and feedback will come in useful for the mid-year review. So I followed the advice. I'm not particularly happy with my work on that, and having discussed it with my supervisor last week, I know where to take it and how to amend it. Hopefully the changes will improve it to a point where I feel happier with it. The mid year review will, in many ways, mark the conclusion of the first four months of my PhD and is the first big hurdle to pass, and I'm sure that that point will bring further self-reflection about the changes that the previous four months have wrought (which I may or may not share here).
So, three months down the line. Still trying to find my feet. Still trying to find a routine. I do feel that I overdid some things in the months before Christmas; I have dialled those things back substantially to allow me to focus more on what I should be doing. I've made decisions about the way that I will be working, and some of the short term aims that I need to achieve, which I will focus on once the mid-year review is complete. It is a different way of working to the BA and MA, and it takes time to develop that. The uncertainty of the first few months is, in some ways, a good thing. It's a process that has to be gone through because it isn't like when you move to a new city, and you're struggling to find your way around; that is fairly easily rectified. This is more complex, and you learn from the process – its not something you can learn about from reading, but only from doing. I just wish more books/blogs that discuss PhDs mentioned this. That it's okay to be uncertain, to wobble, to struggle with finding one's feet. I do think though that I'll come out of this unsure period as a much stronger student, more sure and able to forge ahead and make progress very quickly.
What they don't tell you about MA dissertations…
MA dissertations are different to BA dissertations. … well, that one might win the 'obvious statement' of the century, but I'm quite serious now. Apart from the different demands, the higher level of work, the greater word count, it also takes up more of your time. It doesn't suck one down quite as much as I imagine a PhD thesis might (I'll tell you if that's the case in three years!) but there are side effects to the months of effort that you put in, the final weeks of frantic writing. And these are the ones that you might not find on an official blurb about your Master's dissertation… strictly tongue in cheek, of course!
The flip side of a dissertation
*blinks* …. oh hello…. there you are!
Sorry I've been gone a while. Been buried, had the big dissertation to do. I just got done with it. Yes, just. An hour ago, to be exact. It's all printed out, sitting on my desk next to me, and I can't help but keep stealing glances at it. I wrote THIS? all this? 20,000 words, printed out, 65 pages, takes on a life that it just doesn't have when its just a word file and there's only one page on the screen at once. Page 65 of 65 in the corner doesn't have the same emotional resonance as a stack of nice freshly printed paper with your words on it. And it's a big stack. A whole cm high.
Its not actually that much. The PhD thesis will be four times this amount. I find that really hard to imagine at this point. I keep looking at the pile and trying to imagine having written 80,000 words. And certainly anyone who's ever written a book will be going 20k? and be trying very hard not to smile behind their hands. Not in a condescending way, but they'll smile nonetheless. And I have no doubt that in three years, maybe slightly more, I'll be stealing glances at a much higher stack and wondering what that look like, all bound in hardcopy. And so on with each new piece of work. The size isn't the point. The journey is the point.
Other than the sheer wonder at actually having written this thing (please pause, while I admire my stack again) … I'm not actually sure how i feel about this. A bit sad, perhaps. Very tired, definitely. Not in the sense of OMG-I-could-sleep-for-a-week, but in the sense of just being mentally worn out. And I suppose, a bit scared. Its beginning to hit me, just what a monumental undertaking I've signed up to do. I'm trying very hard not to think about that. Its a bit like running a marathon I guess (not that I've ever done one of those!). if you think about all those miles in one go and just how far it is, you never get off the couch in the first place, never mind putting on your shoes. But if you think in terms of baby steps, in terms of just putting on the shoes and showing up, they seem more doable. Show up, run 10 steps. then another ten, and another. and before you know it, you're wrapping those shiny blankets round you and cursing the blisters. So it is with this. Write this paragraph, then the next, just one more today, then another day. and so on.
Other than the …wow… I wrote this?… feeling, how do I think it is? I'm proud of it. I think its a good piece of work. I think it's better than my undergrad dissertation, if I'm honest. The markers might disagree, but that's out of my hands. Might see if I can work some of it up in to article(s). One eye on the ol'CV/REF and all that. Definitely worth doing.
A number of newly minted doctors have written about the post-viva come-down, of having obsessed over, achieved and worked so hard towards the goal and suddenly, theres nothing there, and the psychological need to prepare for that gaping absence. I think there's a bit of that going on. On the one hand, I'm looking forward to having my life back. I've missed blogging, I've definitely missed having flexibility to do things mid-day like go for a walk. Rationally, I know that working at the intensity I have been doing for the last few weeks is going to lead to burnout very rapidly, but at the same time, there's a purity in that dedication. Tomorrow, though, I have to pick up the reins of life. I have articles to review, a talk to write (for next week), and then I get close to a two week break before my PhD begins. I'm not sure how much of a break I'll take though. I'll take it easy, sure, but I'm excited about the PhD, and honestly, eager to crack on with it.
So, I guess, time to say goodbye to the MA, and say hello to the PhD.
Excuse me… I have a stack I need to admire once more. 🙂
Passion & ikigai
18/06/2016 ukhistorygeek Leave a comment
The word 'passion' is overused in many ways. Does anyone remember a few years back, in Masterchef? The contestants would be asked why they want to go through the competition. Not just in interview as they were cooking, but as a key stage (usually at around the same time as the skills test). Almost invariably the phrase 'I have a real passion for cooking' would be trotted out. Admission tutors see it too – enough that prospective undergrads are warned not to use the word in their personal statements. Almost invariably, people are told not to use the word; to show it instead. And yet, a conversation that I've been having online in the last 24 hours with a variety of people has shown me that to study at PhD level, perhaps even Master's degree level, it really is essential to have a passion for the subject at hand.
I'm still working on my MA dissertation which I wrote about a few days ago, transcribing depositions – witness statements, in other words – and one particular one described the night that Foulkes completely lost it. I don't mean the event in London, where he murdered his newborn child (1679), but earlier, around the end of July 1676. Foulkes had had gone for a drink in what may have been the nearest alehouse. There, the vicar of the neighbouring parish had talked with him, reporting the rumours he had heard about Foulkes and Ann, his lover, and trying, gently, to warn Foulkes of what was being said about him. Foulkes initially seemed to have taken the warning 'very kindly and quietly', but later became angry, and returned home somewhat drunk. He sent for two neighbours and their wives and after drinking more, a fight ensued. The neighbours promptly left, and Foulkes turned on his wife. This whole evening was described in the first (secondary) source that I found on Foulkes, Peter Klein's book The Temptation and Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacy (if anyone has it, and would like to read the relevant section, then see pages 47-50). The particular deposition that I was working on was the statement by William Hopton. While – as I said before, he most certainly had an axe to grind against Foulkes – transcribing the document proved to be difficult.
This was not because the handwriting was bad or it was full of latin or abbreviations – I don't mean that kind of difficulty. It was emotionally difficult. When I came to the section where Hopton described that the neighbours had left, and 'the said Robt Foulkes did fall out with his wife againe & beat her soe violently that she did cry out 3 times', and when the neighbours – who were still outside, along with others who had gathered, drawn by the noise – tried to calm Foulkes, his wife, Isabella, was seen to be lying on a bed, bleeding (it did not say from where), complaining about Foulkes and asking the neighbours to stay with her till morning, 'to save her life for that she was in danger to be murthered by her husband'. Crying out three times may not seem so much to modern eyes – or ears – but to contextualise this; early modern husbands were allowed, encouraged, even, to discipline their wives (to a certain extent, at least). Just as with those people in modern day abuse situations, a great deal of shame would probably have accompanied these disciplinary occasions, shame that the husband thought it necessary that the wife be punished. The average early modern woman being punished by her husband, even legitimately (the rod no wider than a thumb is a rule oft bandied), would probably have tried to keep any involuntary sounds to a minimum, to keep the neighbours from knowing that she was being disciplined. That Isabella was unable – or unwilling, in fear of her life – to do this indicated to me either how violent Foulkes was being towards her; or how afraid she was. Either way, it was disturbing.
When I had typed the transcription, I sat back in my chair and found tears creeping down my cheek at the plight of Isabella. Now… I'd be the first to admit that I can be a right old soppy sod. I regularly cry at movies, anything to do with the queen or royal family (a republican I am not) or weddings or mushy stuff. Its a family trait – I blame my maternal grandfather, he did the same thing. But really? Crying over something that had happened not quite 340 years earlier, where the participants were long since dead and buried and not so much as dust in the ground? But it really did disturb me. I finished transcribing the page, then went for a turn around the garden and a cup of coffee, and then turned to my colleagues and discussed my disquiet with them. And I was surprised to find that I was by no means alone in finding primary sources emotionally disturbing, to the point of needing a break from the material.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been. One colleague, working on records that detailed historical instances of racial abuse said that they saw the cup of tea, the break afterwards, as an integral, necessary part of transcription work (and I think they're right about that; something I will have to mentally account for when calculating transcription time in future). Others described sitting in archives and openly crying over what they were reading, the strong emotions, primarily pain, recorded by people in the past. I don't think this is something that is readily discussed amongst historians, except perhaps those who routinely work with material that would – by almost anyone – be described as 'emotionally distressing'. It certainly isn't something that we're taught how to handle at either BA or MA level: we're left to find our own methods of dealing with this kind of emotional upheaval.
But something else someone said to me also resonated. They said I cry, because I'm passionate about my research, about history, and also observed that if people don't have that passion, they don't get far as historians. And I realised they're right. In all the people I've met, whether already qualified and practising academics in one university or another, or those of us who are still studying to get there (MA and PhD students), the one thing we've all shared, regardless of actual subject, is that passion. It's not enough to find history interesting. That's like me enjoying cooking enough that I enjoy – when I'm not tired and stressed – creating a meal for family or friends, or a cake for our local history group at Uni. That doesn't make me a chef, even a trainee one. I think too often people confuse an interest with a passion. It's perfectly okay to have an interest, to want to practise something, even to want to practice it a lot. I have to eat every day, after all! But its still only an interest, and having a passion, I can see the difference. People envy me sometimes, they say, because I seem to have such a clear idea of where I want to go, what I want to do, but I think sometimes there is too much emphasis laid on the quest to identify one's passion, right now, right this minute, instead of waiting for it to come to you, quietly and in the fullness of time.
The Japanese have it right, I think. There, the quest for 'ikigai' is a deep, extensive search of self, the quest to identify what you love; what you're good at; what the world needs; and what you can be paid for. Where what you love and what you're good at overlap, is your passion. Where what you love, and what the world needs overlap, is your mission. Where what the world needs overlaps with what you can be paid for, is your vocation. Where what you're good at overlaps with what you can be paid for, is your profession. Where all four overlap, is your ikigai. It is your reason for being, your reason for getting up in the morning. The French might refer to it as one's raison d'être.
I count myself fortunate to have found my ikigai, and if it means occasionally sitting at my desk, weeping as I cry for the fate of a woman who was violently beaten by her philandering husband 340 years ago, then so be it. I don't think its a cost that I would ever pass up, and I doubt many other historians would disagree.
My supervisor fired the gun on the MA dissertation last week; he wants a draft chapter by 5th July (and its been suggested that we submit our worst chapter). Erk. Note to self: next time he asks me when I'm thinking of submitting… say the deadline, idiot, not the middle of August!
[although, seriously, I do want a break before the PhD kicks off; I've got a talk to give in early September which I have to write, and a wedding to attend (not mine) as well as a 2 day training course at the end of September – I think a break will be much needed and highly valued. And if I'm honest with myself, this deadline is what I need. I work better to deadlines.]
So I've dusted off my PDFs of primary sources that I collected ages ago and taken an evaluative look at them. These are consistory court records from Herefordshire (from Herefordshire Archive and Record Centre or HARC, to be specific), from the 1670s, where a number of Foulkes's parishioners took him to court over his affair with Ann Atkinson – this was in the years before the calamitous events that occurred in London and which led to Foulkes' execution. There are ten PDFs altogether; the largest has 120 or so pages, the smallest just one. Altogether, there are something like 800 pages, which is an awful lot to try to read in a short space of time (especially given that they are handwritten). However, I do have some advantages; some 100 or so pages are in Latin and are likely to be official court documents. These I will leave for now, because a) my latin is pretty awful (at the moment) and b) I'm not sure how much is to be gained by wading through them that I cannot get from the other documents, which are all in English. These are things like lawyer's records, notes that were passed between various people in the court (quite a few from Foulkes himself) and many, many depositions. The writing is pretty awful – I'd post a sample, but copyright does apply and I'd need to get permission from HARC – so, I thought, time to brush off the palaeography how-to notes from a module I did last year with the MA.
Surprisingly, I found that I could read something like 75-80% of the clearest document (start with the easier one, always – it takes time and practice to 'get the eye in'). I've worked through a couple of lengthy depositions from that collection, which is twenty six pages of depositions by eight people. These are what we would today call 'statements', with a few latin phrases, dated and signed in some way by the person giving the deposition. The first, by a chap called Richard Hopton, was one of the members of the 'combinators' (as they called themselves) bringing the case against Foulkes. He refers to Foulkes as 'very contentious and quarrellsom', says that Foulkes 'disturb[s] their peass and quiett'. He goes on to say that Foulkes 'had a bastard', which was 'begotten by him on the body of Ann Atkinson'. The second, that I have worked through so far, was by William Hopton, younger brother of Richard. He starts out by referring, like his brother, to Foulkes as 'a quarrellsom and contentious spirit' who was 'endeavouring to disturb the peace and quiet of this neighbourhood and parish by threatening and abusive words'. He said that Foulkes called him 'a sonne of a whore', and that Foulkes would often refer to Ann's mother, Elizabeth, as a whore and an old baud. Lovely!
There's no real conclusion to this; other than that to reflect that the Hopton brothers seem determined to paint Foulkes in the worst terms possible (perhaps understandable, given that they were part of the conspiracy against Foulkes). There's a but, though. There are words that I am currently unable to read; and because of that, I don't fully understand everything that has been said in the statement. Less than ideal, obviously and a situation that I have to correct, fairly urgently.
I've arranged a meeting with my supervisor early next week because I think many of the words I can't read are either abbreviations (Early Modern clerks adored abbreviations – it saved paper and ink!) or latin phrases, and I think he'll be able to help with that. Beyond that though, its a case of nose to the grindstone to try to get some of these documents read. Not necessarily transcribed, just read. At the moment I am, of course, making notes as I go along, but that's different to transcription, which is a word for word, letter for letter copy of exactly what is on the page but in a print format (some of the conventions adhered to by transcribers can be seen here). Transcription will have to be done eventually, as I think I will return to this case again and again – the material from this case can be used in a number of different ways. But for now, with that deadline looming, its a case of getting as much read as I can, so that in a few weeks, I can crack my knuckles and bash out a draft chapter of my dissertation.
So for now, keep reading, trying to make sense of what I can, and make notes as to the bits that I can't read. It keeps life interesting, anyway!
The Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys
One of the best things about the taught MA is that, like a BA, you get to work on a number of smaller projects in the run up to the mighty dissertation (a meaty 20,000 words rather than the 10,000 at BA level). This introduces a level of variety that I, for one, really enjoy. In the last two years I've worked on the medieval landscapes of Ludlow and its environs; the relationship between Thomas, Lord Coningsby and the town of Leominster; a project evaluating what a small country churchyard in the south of Shropshire can reveal about the community and culture of the parish it serves; and finally, a project asking what Joyce Jeffrey's Household Accounts could reveal about her local identity. Each of these has resulted in a document numbering around 5,000 words and each one has been great fun to research and write – the bigger word count means there's more room to play with and to explore complex themes. Continue reading →
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I'm trying to make it like this:
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What is the cleanest way to do this in Python?

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Zambia is richly endowed with a wide range of biomass sources including woodlands, forests, agricultural residues and livestock waste. Biomass energy contributes supplies over 70 percent of the country's energy needs. Due to the current extraction and consumption methods, the use of biomass energy has been linked with detrimental environmental effects such as deforestation and forest degradation as well as climate change, due to the loss of carbon sinks. Inefficient utilisation of biomass contributes significantly to deforestation which is estimated at between 79 000 – 150 000 ha per year, and negatively affects the health and income of rural households that depend on forest products for their livelihoods. Sustainable bioenergy strategies and alternative bioenergy solutions need to be defined and integrated into current efforts of the country to increase stable and sustainable access to energy. This report assesses the country context and defines which bioenergy options can be viable considering a number of solutions for electricity production, cooking fuels and transport fuels at the provincial and district level. Possible options originating from crop residues, livestock residues and forest plantation harvesting residues are identified, having netted out agriculture and forestry needs. The assessment now needs to be followed by local verification and investment to deploy an initial set of bioenergy projects and test the findings on the ground.
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Nikhil Rajeshirke Wiki, Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More
Nikhil Rajeshirke is an Indian actor and a doctor. He works predominantly in the Marathi entertainment industry. He has worked in multiple theatre plays, TV shows, and films. He is known for playing the role of Avinash Nayak in ZEE5's Marathi TV serial 'Mazhi Tuzhi Reshimgath,' released in 2021. In 2022, he participated as a contestant in the Marathi version of the reality TV show "Bigg Boss" season 4.
Wiki/Biography
Nikhil Rajeshirke was born on Monday, 15 December 1986 (age 36 years; as of 2022) in Mumbai. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. He studied at Balmohan Vidyamandir School in Dadar, Mumbai. Later, he attended L.R.P. Ayurvedic Medical College in Sangli, Islampur, Maharashtra, from 2004 to 2010.
A childhood image of Nikhil Rajeshirke
Height (approx.): 5′ 7″
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Black
Nikhil Rajeshirke belongs to a Hindu family in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Parents & Siblings
His father works at Hindustan Unilever, and his mother works at the central railway. He has two brothers named Anvesh Rajeshirke and Amey Rajeshirke, and he has a sister named Mayuree Sunil Tawde.
Nikhil Rajeshirke with his parents and brother
Nikhil Rajeshirke's brother Anvesh Rajeshirke
Nikhil Rajeshirke was in 7th grade when he debuted as a theatre actor with the play titled 'Aamchya Ya Gharat.' Some other plays in which he has worked are 'Veer Vachan,' 'God Bless You,' 'Punch A Tantra,' 'Siddhivinayak Saves Mumbai From Terror Attack,' and 'Aamhi Travelkars,' and more. In 2016, he worked in the Marathi play titled 'Strawberry.'
Nikhil Rajeshirke on the poster of the 2016 theatre play 'Strawberry'
In 1999, he debuted with Zee Marathi's TV show 'Abhalmaya' in which he played the role of a supporting character. In 2001, he worked in the comedy-drama show 'De Dhamal.' In 2015, he acted in the Marathi Tv show 'Priti Pari Tujvari.' He was cast to play the role of Virat in the 2018 TV show 'Choti Malkin.' He worked in the 2019 TV series titled 'Rang Maza Vegla.' In 2021, he appeared as Nikhil Diwan in SonyLIV's TV series 'Ajunahi Barsaat Aahe.'
Nikhil Rajeshirke in a still from the 2021 TV show 'Ajunahi Barsaat Aahe'
In 2015, he debuted with the Marathi film 'Biker's Adda' in which he played the role of Sam. In 2018, he was cast in the Marathi film 'Asehi Ekada Vhave' in which he played the role of Tejas. In 2022, he appeared in the Marathi film 'Django JD' in a lead role. In 2022, he played the role of a supporting character in the Marathi film '8 Don 75.'
Nikhil Rajeshirke in a still from the 2022 Marathi film '8 Don 75'
In 2017, he worked in his first web series titled 'Moving Out;' he played the lead role named Satya in the series.
Nikhil Rajeshirke in a still from the 2017 TV web series 'Moving Out'
Facts/Trivia
Besides working as an actor, Nikhil Rajeshirke is also an Ayurvedic Doctor.
He used to play cricket in college.
Nikhil has a pet dog named Guru.
Nikhil Rajeshirke with his pet dog, Guru
He worked as an assistant director in the 2013 Marathi film 'Tendulkar Out.'
He loves to drink wine.
Nikhil Rajeshirke's Instagram post in which he showed his love for wine
Nikhil Rajeshirke appeared as a contestant in season 4 of the Marathi version of 'Bigg Boss.'
Nikhil Rajeshirke as a contestant in the Marathi version of 'Bigg Boss' season 4
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"Stupid decisions can bring you good stories, but not all stories should be shared." | Dom Mackie talks taking his Poor Life Choices on tour
Tell us about your show, Poor Life Choices.
I am an idiot; I have many stupid stories of things I have done and I love entertaining people with them. It is a shame that others aren't as open as I am with the stupid events that have happened in their lives. So, I aim to persuade my audiences to do the same, to be more open and to be proud of the stupid decisions they've made, as it makes them who they are.
Overall, the show is a therapeutic experience, I have nothing to hide, so neither should you.
What inspired the show?
We all make stupid decisions in our lives; I make some every day. Whenever I used to tell these stories, I felt a bit of joy from telling them as my friends laughed and I felt they aren't that stupid anymore. The fact my idiocy made people laugh gives these stories purpose, so I intend to share them.
What kind of poor choices do you explore in your show?
I won't spoil too much of the show but I go a lot into my first ever date and the steps I took to impress the girl. I also appeared on a BBC One game show… but the audition was definitely an experience and let's just say I made a few mistakes to make it the worst day of my life… still got on the show though.
What made you decide to invite the audience to share stories of their own?
As I've mentioned before, it saddens me when there are people out there who may feel embarrassed by the stupid stories from their past. There isn't anything to be ashamed about.
What's the best story you've heard from an audience member?
My all-time favourite was on the first date of the tour in Leicester. This couple had a 5-year-old daughter and when she was 2, she was ill and they decided to postpone Christmas till January until she was better. Even though that is a brilliant idea, even after 3 years, the daughter still thinks there are two Christmases and the parents don't know how to break it to her. Oops!
You've performed the show across the country. How different are the audience's stories from place to place?
It's quite bizarre, places like London, Brighton and Kent were very open with their stories. Even when I did a few dates in Toronto, the audience there were very proud of their stories and very open (even had one who was very vocal of a certain accident they did during a school assembly). But in places like Cambridge, the audience are more discrete about their stories and it took a bit of prodding.
Has writing the show taught you anything about making decisions that you can share with us now?
It has taught me that stupid decisions can bring you good stories, but not all stories should be shared. There are some stories I still feel I can't reveal (I won't say why, but let's say I am a bit ashamed of it still) but that is okay! You can be discrete about these things, but don't keep your whole life hidden.
What do you hope people take away from your show?
It is okay to make stupid decisions, don't ever be ashamed of them. Be proud of what you have done, they make them who you are. I am proud of my mistakes, be proud of yours.
Do you have any advice for anyone looking to break into comedy?
It will be an amazing adventure. Savour every joke and every minute you're on that stage. I won't lie, it will be difficult at some points but it is worth it for the rewards you get from it. But most importantly, have fun, it is an unforgettable experience and the fun you will have is incredible.
Dom is performing his show around Europe for the rest of the year.
You can find tour dates on his website.
To keep up with his other projects, you can follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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CHICAGO — Solar energy projects appear likely to be coming soon to locations in Peoria and Putnam Counties, but neighboring Marshall County seems to have struck out for at least the time being.
And so has a fiercely contested Eureka project that involved a court battle as well as heated zoning hearings in Woodford County.
Two-megawatt projects proposed in Mapleton and Edelstein in Peoria County, along with sites in Granville and Magnolia in Putnam County, were among those selected Wednesday to receive the first round of renewable energy credits in a long-awaited lottery conducted by the Illinois Power Agency.
"It's been a long time coming," IPA executive director Anthony Star said as the lottery got under way in a public proceeding that was also offered through a conference call.
The Mapleton site is at 9411-9599 S. Powell Rd., while the Edelstein project is at a Route 40 location not further specified in the list posted online by the IPA. The Granville location is on Illinois Route 71 near Mennie Machine Co. Inc., while the Magnolia site is identified by a GPS number.
The four were among a total of 486 applicants in Ameren Illinois territory in the community solar category, which limits the size to two megawatts. Only 34 were selected, leaving the rest on a numbered wait list.
None of the owners or developers of the four sites could immediately be reached Wednesday.
In areas served by Commonwealth Edison, 78 projects were selected from a total of 433 applications. The closest to Peoria were in Lostant and Streator in LaSalle County.
The energy credits, which will be paid by the utilities, are widely considered essential to at least the initial financial viability of solar energy projects in Illinois, though some developers believe that the industry is on a path to becoming profitable without them.
One of the sites not selected Wednesday was the Sol America IL LLC project on Eureka's Lake Road, which was denied the required zoning permit by the Woodford County Board but later received it through court action. It came in at 86 on the wait list.
Also notably absent from the selections were 14 Marshall County projects that were permitted during the past year, making it one of the busier areas of solar development. Seven of those were developed by Highland Park-based Trajectory Energy LLC, which also had seven sites in Peoria County.
A Trajectory project in West Peoria was placed at 38 on the wait list, meaning it would move up if four of the selected projects don't follow through. The company also had a Sparland project come in at 42 and one near Lacon at 52.
Carson said at a Marshall County hearing the company was committed to developing its projects even if that meant waiting for later rounds of credits. But he declined to speculate immediately Wednesday on the fate of those on the waiting list.
"We're just starting to talk to our landowners," he said.
A complete list of projects and their rankings is available at www.illinoisabp.com/blog.


I'm not sure what this has to do with adding a byte to an RPM to distinguish LSB packages from non-LSB ones in a way that old versions of RPM and alien would completely ignore.
Afaict, the issue with this is folks want an easy way for scripts and such to determine if a package is intended for LSB systems. Right now that information will be encoded in dependencies, which is fine but require something like RPM to be on the system in order to parse them. Adding a byte to a reserved area that all old versions of RPM/alien would ignore hardly seems like a major design issue, esp when one of the people who needs convincing (me) doesn't mind at all. That byte would be used by file(1); RPM/alien will get absolutely no semantic information from it.
It doesn't resolve *naming* issues at all. *Suggesting* LSB packages be named .lsb is certainly reasonable, though I think the real world implications are almost nil. Having packages that are part of the lsb begin with lsb- is a good idea. As for having all packages that are lsb compliant being in lsb-, I really don't see the point. If this effort is successful to any reasonable degree, all 3rd party packages should end up as LSB packages, so the lsb- is a bit redundant. If that doesn't happen, the LSB hasn't been successful, so who cares?


Slice tofu in half lengthwise, then cut each half into two long strips, approximately 1/2-inch thick.
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Melissa Fraterrigo's novel strikes with the unexpected force of a summer tornado. It's a marvel as gritty as the carnival at the edge of her fictional rural town of Ingleside, where characters worthy of a Flannery O'Connor story struggle and self-medicate to make sense of lives marked by loss, violence, and despair. Fraterrigo is as much a seer as her Trompe-l'œil Fredonia the Great, who aches when she must reveal the truth. Fredonia tells her estranged daughter, 'Honey, I'll help you work toward any dream that you have. But this. This is not a dream. Laying hands is a job.' These characters yearn for one another, across time, even across death, and they take comfort in the past and in one another, however fragile their connections.
Melissa Fraterrigo's Glory Days presents a world of ghosts and seers, the living and the dead, bound together in a small farming community at the crossroads of tradition and the most cavalier of progress. Spinning through a series of unforgettable characters, each lured by a sense of freedom, violence, or the need to belong, these stories surprise us, echo with significance, and draw together to paint a complicated portrait of a place about to be lost.
that family. Her people are forever stained by their upbringing, memories and consequences of choice. Melissa's stories are a powerful reminder of what it means to be human.
Glory Days is a tender and tragic portrayal of small town life, filled with beautifully flawed characters whose voices are unforgettable. From this fascinating cast, we hear about the economic trials of farming, the realities of poverty, the solace of land. From calving season to an amusement park, this novel takes us on a journey that's told with generosity of spirit and a true tenderness of the land and people. A beautiful book.
The small plains town of Ingleside, Nebraska, is populated by down- on-their-luck ranchers and new money, ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and the have-nots. At the center of this novel is the story of Teensy and his daughter, Luann, who face the loss of their land even as they mourn the death of Luann's mother. Some townspeople find enormous wealth when developers begin buying up acreage. When Glory Days—an amusement park—is erected, past and present collide, the attachment to the land is fully severed, and the invading culture ushers in even darker times.
In Glory Days, Melissa Fraterrigo combines gritty realism with magical elements to paint an arrestingly stark portrait of the painful transitions of twenty-first-century, small town America. She interweaves a slate of gripping characters to reveal deeper truths about our times and how the new landscape of one culture can be the ruin of another.
"Daddy's not the only guy Papermill laid off, he's just the unluckiest, he says. The buckets of ice have turned to water by the time they are done. Some shake Daddy's hand or squeeze his shoulder. Take care now, they say. We sit on the steps and watch the train of cars leave land that has been in my mother's family for three generations—land the bank has sold. Dust whorls. We sweat. Vultures spoon the sky.


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Life, Everlasting, Part IV – The Work of the Holy Spirit, Part B.
13:1 In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. 4 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
If a man cleanses himself …useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
After we are cleansed and made useful for the Master, and are prepared to do any good work for Him, to where should we turn our attention? What is it that we should now concentrate on if we are to do what is right for God? What can we attend to in our own lives if we are to receive God's blessing on the work that we are to do for Him?
The deity of the Holy Spirit ought to be clearly recognized in Scripture. Look at these facts: Christ is born; the Spirit is His forerunner. Christ is baptized; the Spirit bears witness. Christ is tempted; the Spirit leads Him up. Christ ascends; the Spirit takes His place. What great things are there in the character of God which are not found in the Spirit? What titles which belong to God are not also applied to Him? He is called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the mind of Christ, the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of adoption, of truth, of liberty; the Spirit of wisdom, of understanding, of counsel, of might, of knowledge, of godliness, of the fear of God. This only begins to show how unlimited He is.
Now, ask yourself this question. Do you have a relationship with Him? In our public and private lives, does He have first place? In our worship and praise, is He depended on to lead guide us?
Elizabeth Elliot, A Slow and Certain Light.
Elizabeth Elliot tells of two adventurers who stopped by to see her, all loaded with equipment for the rain forest east of the Andes. They sought no advice, just a few phrases to converse with the Indians. She writes: "Sometimes we come to God as the two adventurers came to me -- confident and, we think, well-informed and well equipped. But has it occurred to us that with all our accumulation of stuff, something is missing?
She suggests that we often ask God for too little. We know what we need--a yes or no answer, please, to a simple question. Or perhaps a road sign. Something quick and easy to point the way. What we really ought to have is the Guide himself. Maps, road signs, a few useful phrases are things, but infinitely better is someone who has been there before and knows the way.
God has His own divine plan that He is working through man for His own good purpose. He established that church at Antioch. He brought those 'certain prophets and teachers' and placed them in that church in Antioch. He had already scripted plans for the church and the people, and for any evangelistic efforts beyond that. They were His plans; they were not Barnabas' plans or Paul's plans, but God's plan for Asia with regard to His Kingdom.


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