Author: Edward Mills
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Other Writing
As you may have noticed, this blog has been on the back-burner for a little while. While I do have plans for bringing it back, particularly as this academic year ends, I thought I’d provide (by way of a brief update) an overview of where else you can find my writing on the Internet, if…
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A (very) brief update
Well, hello there! It’s been quite a while since my last post, for which I can only apologise: between an upgrade viva (which I passed – more on this soon!), my first experience teaching undergraduates, and surprising amounts of work since then, the first term of my second year has been rather more hectic than…
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Digitising the Exeter Book
Between start-of-year meetings with supervisors, the arrival of the freshers, and the rush to finalize conference paper proposals, it’s been a busy first few weeks back in Exeter. In the midst of all of this, though, I’ve also had one amazing opportunity that really deserves a blog post all to itself. I’ve mentioned before on this…
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A tale of two conferences, II: Researching and Publishing the Medieval Now (York)
As I mentioned in my most recent post, the start of July was something of a blur for me, as I spent much of my time in conference mode. (In case you’re wondering, by the way, being in ‘conference mode’ tends to involve me bobbing up and down in my seat, enraptured by my fellow…
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A tale of two conferences, I: the International Medieval Congress (Leeds)
I’m writing this on the train back from York after a week of what I’ve been calling (rather awkwardly) ‘medieval fun-times’. It’s been a very busy few days for many people in the world of medieval studies: the early summer period, after undergraduates have gone home, is peak conference season, and this year was no…
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This guy wrote a blog post about Asperger’s. What happened next will shock you!
Well, that was unexpected. I published my last blog post right before leaving for a rowing training camp, and had somewhat-intermittent internet access for the following 24 hours; in light of this, my latest check of the blog stats gave me a bit of a shock. All I can really say is thank you —…
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My experience with Asperger’s: studying, socialising, and starting to speak up
‘Second-term syndrome’ has been something of a hot topic in the PGR office of late. Several of us first-year students have found that after the active and productive first term in research, the long months after January have hit us with something of a sucker punch. Even as the key research questions surrounding your project…
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Digitisation, archive.org, and ways of reading
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to any readers of this blog that I spend quite a large amount of my time thinking about books. These ‘books’ can take many forms, from manuscripts produced in the twelfth century to the latest works of criticism, but one of the most significant recent development…
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Reflections from the Ruddigorchestra
My audition for Ruddigore got off to a rather inauspicious start. Having left my own trumpet in Reading, and borrowed one from the instrument store, I swiftly discovered that the valve-oil that came with the rather battered trumpet I was using had something of a predilection for spending more time on my face and hands than…
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