
Posted in Updates on 1st August 2002
We made our target. Despite predictions otherwise, much stress and bother, and most of all a whole heap of self-doubt, every student who submitted a valid, on-time application form has some sort of funding (or will do when the postman next visits). Amazed that we learned how to do all...

Posted in Updates on 29th July 2002
Unexpected visit to Bristol after work. Drank too much cider (the summer beverage of choice hereabouts). Nice evening though, including a strange discussion of Wuthering Heights (my second in 24 hours oddly enough) and an incomplete game of Scrabble in the Victoria. Became somewhat maudlin in an 'Approaching Milestone Syndrome'...

Posted in Updates on 28th July 2002
Its impossible to learn history without developing an impression of where you stand on the issues at stake. Happily, we almost never have to deal with the views we've formed, because history stays exactly where it's meant to be. Today, history came visiting, and I had to review the happy...