Category Archives: Publishing

On trying to be a better medievalist (and make the world a better place)

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Robert J S Briggs

I spent a large chunk of the first few weeks of the new year away from this blog working on a funding application for my PhD research. Consequently, of late, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I study, … Continue reading →

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New work! Testing Transhumance

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Robert J S Briggs

A brief post as I’ve gone on about transhumance and pigs more than enough already in the past couple of years. My co-authored article (with the late Dennis Turner) was published a few weeks ago in the new volume of … Continue reading →

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Three new books on aspects of medieval Surrey

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Robert J S Briggs

A pleasing thing happened a few weeks ago – I was sent a new book by its author, in the hope that (1) it might be of interest to me and (2) I might publicise it via this blog. It’s never happened … Continue reading →

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The reviews are in (again)

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

Earlier this month, I enjoyed an afternoon in a gown and mortarboard as I graduated from the University of Nottingham. It was a pleasant break from the work routine – oh, go on then, it was one of my proudest moments of the year – but … Continue reading →

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Playing away at Onomastics.co.uk

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

The past month has been bonkers busy, or, to use the slicker corporate jargon that now disfigures my professional writing and speech after two months of working for a leading tech company, my bandwidth has been maxed out all too frequently. So, if you were wondering why posts … Continue reading →

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Books on Anglo-Saxon Surrey are a lot like buses…

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

… but as I’m sure you know how the saying goes, I won’t belabour the point (other than to note that unfortunately it doesn’t apply to the bus stop outside my front door, which has a steady stream of services around … Continue reading →

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Medieval studies in cathedrals and clouds

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

On the train back to London yesterday I read an article in an arts newspaper discussing “internets” and how open-source “cloud” approaches to art and design offer benefits over and above those derived from orthodox “cathedral”-based methods. It wasn’t just the … Continue reading →

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My autumn, sorted

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

I have blogged time and time and time again about the “forthcoming” publication of the Susan Kelly-edited Charters of Chertsey Abbey. Each time I have done so, the inexorable passage of time has meant its publication date is a little nearer … Continue reading →

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Tom Williamson has been busy

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

Sometime last week, an email appeared in my inbox with the subject title “Champion – The Making and Unmaking of…” Now I’m not one for sporting biographies (though a recent meeting with one leading academic has made me want to … Continue reading →

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HAPPY Easter

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

It’s half past one in the morning and I’ve admitted defeat in trying to get something big finished that I’ve been working on more or less constantly since Good Friday morning (save for a few breaks such as an excursion … Continue reading →

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