by Harry Coughlan For my Independent Study I choose to write and record a song taken from an imaginary Music Hall production titled ‘Classless Society’. The rationale behind writing and performing a song, as a mock primary source from the Victorian era, was the fact that the Music Hall became such a prominent pastime in… Continue reading Harry Coughlan, ‘Slum Girl’ Song
by Billie-Gina Thomason. Billie has recently graduated from LJMU with a History and English degree. She will be returning to LJMU next year to take the MRes in History. She plans to research trans* identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I chose to write a diary for a creative portfolio in my Victorian Cities… Continue reading Billie-Gina Thomason, Creating a Diary of Thomas Son
By Andrew Madden. Andrew has recently graduated from LJMU with a BA in History. For this assignment Lucie asked us to create an output that had some relevance to the course. My first thought was to create a collage on the changing face of Liverpool, from the Victorian Era until the present day. But then I… Continue reading Andrew Madden, Board Game Antics
By Laura Fitzpatrick. Laura has recently graduated from Liverpool John Moores where she completed a dissertation on the Victorian circus and freak show performer. From next year she will be joining the University of Manchester where she plans to research disability, lesiure and performance in the 19th and 20th Centuries. She blogs here: lauralouisefitz.wordpress.com During the… Continue reading Laura Fitzpatrick, Slumming Account & the Middle-Class imagination
I recently wrote a post for Historylab+ giving advice to ECRs on how to cope with short-term contracts. If you haven’t read it do check it out. You can find it here. What readers of this blog post won’t know is that at the time it was published I was experiencing a technology hiccup. My external hard drive… Continue reading BACK UP & A BIG thank-you…
Lucinda Matthews-Jones 