A little thank you

This is just to say ‘Ta very much’, and to provide you with a few updates.

I’ve been really touched by the positive feedback I’ve received since starting this newsletter last month. Five posts in, it’s now passed 50+ subscribers and I hope will continue to attract new readers at an equally regular pace going forward.

I had been attracted to the idea of doing something along these lines for a while, as a means for reaching a much wider audience and writing in an (I hope) more accessible format than conventional academic publishing allows. I was given the push to do so by a change in life circumstances. This summer I left my role as Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at the University of Chichester, where I had been based for the past five years. I’m treating the next 12 months as something of a sabbatical/parental leave. During this time, as well as looking after our youngest child before he starts school next year, I’m going to be taking the break from teaching and other aspects of full-time employment in higher education to focus on academic research, a…