Back to school
American-orientated, but nonetheless useful advice for new post-grads/graduate students from Unfogged. (Found in the comment thread to this post at Crooked Timber.) By the way, Rob is back from the...
View ArticleAttention PhD students: research training
Warwick University is running a programme of three one-day workshops (in London) for doctoral students in Early Modern/Renaissance subjects. The first workshop is on ‘electronic resources’ – including...
View ArticleWPW for PhD students
The latest issue of Working Papers on the Web is Postgraduate Supervision, including articles on preparing for PhD study, writing, support for TAs, and how to survive the viva. It’s focused on students...
View ArticleGet it done!
Just in case any of the postgrads who visit here haven’t already seen it: Eszter’s post on how to get your dissertation done, and there’s much good advice in the comment threads. A very useful resource.
View ArticleBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 2006 competition is open. The BA PDFs are three-year research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences, “designed as early career opportunities for recently postdoctoral scholars to...
View ArticleCrimes and Misdemeanours: new ejournal
Crimes and Misdemeanours, Deviance and the law in historical perspective: Call for Submissions In autumn 2006, SOLON (Interdisciplinary Studies in Bad Behaviour and Crime) is launching its electronic...
View ArticleNew MA in early modern political discourse
This brand new MA in the history of early modern political discourse sounds excellent (announced at H-Net). Over the last forty years the “history of political thought” or of “ideas” has been...
View ArticleGetting the word out
I’m at home for a couple of days doing those final revisions to the book MS (so expect a flood of posts as I cheerfully procrastinate). Anyway, I was surfing around blogs and encountered one of those...
View ArticleIHR postgrad seminars and History Lab
Ed has asked me to give the IHR Postgraduate Seminars (in London) and History Lab a bit of a plug. Ed is hoping to use the History Lab blog in association with the Seminars this year, to post reports...
View ArticleNew project, new people: the Digital Panopticon
Starting a new project is exciting and intensely busy (which is also my excuse for taking a month to blog about it). And the Digital Panopticon is the biggest one we’ve done yet. ‘The Digital...
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