Bad joke. I’m just about through putting together my course reader for my class (which starts next week). It was way more work than I thought, but I got some interesting material in there. I translated a few mazarinades, too, so that should be fun. I’ve got one that purports to be from the printers [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 22, 2008
England, teaching, and Los Angeles
So I’m back in the United States. I’m actually at the Clark Library in Los Angeles right now. I’ve been finishing up cataloguing the pictures I took in the various archives. It’s kind of annoying, but I’ve already figured out a bunch of stuff I missed, including something rather interesting. One of the parliamentary clerks [...]
July 10, 2008
In the UK 2
So I’ve traveling from archive to archive. Right now I’m in Hull. There’s the Morrill conference, and I’ve spent the last two days at the Hull City Archives. It was a nice little archive with friendly people. I also got to see a really well preserved seal of Mabbott’s. It has three fleur-de-lis with a [...]
