There is not just a massive Covid-19 backlog in NHS care in the UK, there is also a backlog in academic publications in this country, albeit one which is fortunately much less noticeable to the outside world. And hopefully nobody is going to die because of it. Of course I can only talk about my… Continue reading The Covid-19 backlog in academia
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A small workshop shows why I like the EU and Brexit is a bad idea
I have just returned from our annual workshop on Translating Cultures at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (HAB, Germany) which is always a great opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues while discussing the significance of translation for the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe. The spread of papers was amazing –… Continue reading A small workshop shows why I like the EU and Brexit is a bad idea
An Academic Summer
My student neighbours have departed for the summer – stereo, guitar and all. There won’t be any more parties out on the roof of the add-on kitchen, no more banging of doors at 5am, no more cigarette stubs in my back yard. The whole street is getting eerily quiet, the queues in my local Tesco’s shorter,… Continue reading An Academic Summer
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