I don't often talk that much about my DPhil research, because most of my time is spent reading books and articles that are either imp...

Turns out Burns was onto something when he talked about the best laid schemes ganging aft agley - mine ganged aft agley all over the place...

All my posts at the moment seem to start by promising that I'll be returning to regular posts and proper reviews soon - at least this ...

I've been off on trips this week - two to Swindon (yesterday I was there reading letters, rather than diaries - which meant reading lo...

Today I had probably the most exciting day of my DPhil research so far - and, bear in mind when you read the rest of this post, I'm no...

Back in the spring my Mum/Our Vicar's Wife/Anne featured in My Life in Books series chez Stuck-in-a-Book. The whole first series can...

It's been so long since I wrote a proper review that I'm wondering whether or not I can still do it... I don't know about o...