tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post160608136357343622..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: Public Engagement and Personal Enthusiasm, St Mildred and MeClerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-45213440827654634602016-05-29T09:47:11.224+01:002016-05-29T09:47:11.224+01:00I love this, and entirely agree about the value of...I love this, and entirely agree about the value of passion in historical blogging. I'm linking to this in my new post on the same subject. Kate Thomashttp://forthewynnblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-15589812611569844852015-08-03T12:39:43.986+01:002015-08-03T12:39:43.986+01:00Wonderful to read something appreciative about Tha...Wonderful to read something appreciative about Thanet. I was brought up on the other side of the Wantsum, looking across at the tower of St Nicholas at Wade. I used to walk there from Marshside following various drove roads, or bicycle along the sea wall from Reculver. Your post reminded me of the landscape: Sarre mill, now in working order; the landing-place of St Augustine at Ebbsfleet; the Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-71676213634826053422015-07-20T17:19:53.501+01:002015-07-20T17:19:53.501+01:00Many thanks for this plea for restoring humanity t...Many thanks for this plea for restoring humanity to history. The critical disciplines for assessing evidence over the past two centuries are vital, but they do not transform history into a science. Perhaps as "physics envy" recedes, not only from academia but from politics and economics as well (and it must!), more room will be made for the layering of the rigorous and the personal.R J Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06925072280945666069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-68654796462145566412015-07-20T13:59:21.759+01:002015-07-20T13:59:21.759+01:00Have been dawdling through your posts after only r...Have been dawdling through your posts after only recently discovering your blog. This last caught me off guard - the enthusiasm for St Mildred I totally acclaim/comprehend - but shaken to think academics might shudder at your revelations to the plebs. Now that is small minded! I look to your world/people such as yourself after I became fascinated with with medieval mss and writing about two liz readhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068601596463760559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-11679231077497641562015-07-15T20:35:16.371+01:002015-07-15T20:35:16.371+01:00I love this post in myriad and difficult to enunci...I love this post in myriad and difficult to enunciate ways. I'm from the American Midwest and have never been to the UK, so your place of humble connection looks, to me, wistful and endless (wow, ocean!). Still, I've never felt that sense of rootedness with my own hometown, and rarely with the many places I've lived since, and this reminded me of all the small ways of knowing a place Sallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-21585010521906209762015-07-15T02:38:15.430+01:002015-07-15T02:38:15.430+01:00Thank you for a lovely post - I don't know Mil...Thank you for a lovely post - I don't know Mildred or Thanet at all but feel like I've been given a little window on a different life.<br /><br />Perhaps I will never be a truly successful traditional academic but I have chosen that rooted life. My partner and I wanted to have one part of our life as stable as we could and bought a house in a small village within an hour's commute @follysantidotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049108545953547564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-50715372236665952972015-07-14T22:24:41.202+01:002015-07-14T22:24:41.202+01:00AS ever you get to the heart of why we love histor...AS ever you get to the heart of why we love history. Your insistence on local attachment is bang-on. I feel it all the time I wander round London with the ancient streets in mind.<br />Thanet though is something else. A place to put strange and exciting things while they cool down, like Phoenician imports [see Caitlin Green] or strange cults like Christianity. I spent five years on the North David Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032078416356784416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-7356395100619267192015-07-14T20:41:59.113+01:002015-07-14T20:41:59.113+01:00Your blog is one of my favorite blogs. I am const...Your blog is one of my favorite blogs. I am constantly impressed, as well as inspired and encouraged, by your perceptive take on medieval history and literature and academia and life in general. I strongly think that your holistic approach to history and literature is a wonderful model of how it should be--disciplined research not separated from but entangled with <i>life</i>. You do a greatlyMark Hausamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07371790103414979060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-11324882747824302652015-07-14T15:37:18.681+01:002015-07-14T15:37:18.681+01:00Public history in that you give it freely to all o...Public history in that you give it freely to all of us, not hoard it up for conferences and subscription-only journals! For which I am very grateful. :) <br />I've just been very much enjoying following the story of Mildred through the older entries as well as here. <br />You're dead right about the value of knowing(or at the very least, attentively thinking about) the actual reality Heliopausenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-38040146488346620512015-07-14T09:32:53.432+01:002015-07-14T09:32:53.432+01:00One of your very best. I'm so glad that I foll...One of your very best. I'm so glad that I follow you. Perhaps being raised just across the estuary from you and coming from a family with C15 Canterbury roots has something to do with that, but I doubt it. Wonderfully atmospheric images - thanks so much.jwripplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15745623387676981805noreply@blogger.com