Dr Nicola Clark

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Stone fireplace with gold tray up against the back wall and 4 lit candles in holders in front of it

House move update: we're in! But what do you do when you don't have enough lamps and would rather die than put the big light on? GO TUDOR and bounce candlelight off shiny things. Thank you, George Cavendish, for your banquet descriptions.

NYT spelling bee game, 'villein' is not in their word list

Srsly NYT c'mon

Can't wait tho

Three of us built three beds today and my lower back has gone to the place where bones die.

Box packed with mini cacti

Considering doctoring some 'fragile' labels to say 'fragile AND SPIKY'

Ahhh thank you! I couldn't think of any full-blown Protestant 'movement' as such. Makes sense they'd have to keep bloody quiet.

(Also: GLORIA, GLORIA (gloria, gloria))

I wondered why northern baroque composers were using the vernacular but southern were not, Monteverdi being the example. Then we thought, hmm, religion?

A query that came out of choir rehearsal this evening: was there Protestant presence in C17 Italy? Was it large and me ignorant? Very secret?

Or use a more deliberately textbooky book, I should think

So I'm assuming it's the publisher being cheap? A long bibliography would add a lot to the length, potentially

That feeing when you're updating teaching sessions, you reach for a book thinking ah, perfect, this will have the latest stuff on X topic in the bibliography...and the bibliography is of primary sources only 😩

#HungryForHistoriography

Woe is me etc but it must be got through to move house! A house where everything will have a home and the war against clutter will just become an occasional skirmish

I am struggling with the chaos. No surface is clear. There is stuff and boxes everywhere. It's a visual processing nightmare

The problem with packing is that everything that was once stored away is now in boxes and there's nowhere for the boxes to be

I expected this with the copper coil but so far I've got violent cramps and nothing to show for it which is somehow more annoying

I am TRYING to sort out the bottom of my wardrobe and then go to the Tudor and Stuart seminar at the ihr, but in reality I'm having to lie on the couch with a heatpad praying for painkillers to kick in and freezing every ten minutes for a particularly violent cramp 🫠

House looking gorgeous. Moving early Feb. Packing nightmares have begun. Am also floored by awful cramps- very upsetting the way we are punished for being women trying to be contraceptively responsible 😩

Ooh I wish I knew! I don't think I can say anything super definite on this. Often in lists of quarterly or monthly wages in the chamber books the recipients are listed in the same order each time, but I don't know what that signified if anything

'Balls, I just found a ukulele.'

Quote of the day from my housemate, who is packing.

Tfw you accidentally put your hair in a much higher, tighter bun than you intended and now you feel like Miss Hardbroom from The Worst Witch books

Back on my bullshit

Someone’s not looked at a single early modern history book before opening their mouth, clearly. By 1600, over 4,000 immigrants lived in England’s second largest city, Norwich - one in three people in the city had not been born in England.

Thanks, that's really useful!

Honestly aside from showing up to deliver teaching I've done nothing else except House lately

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So it's this listing: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/17775623...

The roll-top bit of the bureau evidently is half missing, the desk part I think ought to push back in and perhaps doesn't, and there are stains on lots of the wood. But I love its vibes and would happily bring it back to life

Do I know anyone who knows about furniture restoration? There's a thing I want to bid on, but it needs some love and I don't know what's possible

Certainly! It'll cost you a lot of nighttime jaw clenching, associated headaches, and many many lists 😂

Carpets chosen and booked, front door ordered, all bits for second electrical fix arriving today, moving day confirmed and movers booked. It's all happening!

Oh yeah and I should probably also do some work?