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SIMON BRIERCLIFFE

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After Carribee Island: the Great War

12 Apr 2018
This post follows on from these two about the afterlife of Carribee Island, for forty years the assumed - and stigmatised - home of Wolverhampton's Irish population in the nineteenth…
Black Country…

Distance and Strangeness: the murder of Anne Spencer

15 May 201715 May 2017
I sometimes feel like I've spent the last three years trying to figure out my place within history. I still feel like there's probably a huge mountain of scholarship that I've…
Black Country…

Telling family stories

2 May 20172 May 2017
As part of my research I will inevitably have to tell you some family histories. I say have to - it's a vital, fascinating and relevant part of my research.…
Black Country…

Black Country Irish: Wolverhampton, 1851

8 Aug 201627 Apr 2018
I'm starting my series on the Irish in the 19th century Black Country by looking at Wolverhampton. This is familiar ground for me, or at least should be - so I'm…
Maps…

Maps and legends

4 Apr 2016
  This week's big adventure was a trip to the fabled meadows of Cambridge or, at least, the brutalist Robinson College (see Otto Saumarez-Smith's paper on it here) and an ugly…
half baked theories…

Beauty is in the streets

7 Mar 20167 Mar 2016
  The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach. I never realised that, like party politics, academia…
PhD

Update

22 Feb 2016
I haven't done a normal post today, but it did occur to me that a quick outline of my research might be of interest to some. I tend to only blog…
PhD…

Dead ends and back alleys

8 Jul 2015
Just a short one today as I'm in the midst of a massive trawl through several decades' worth of census enumerators returns. I'm writing this from my local library, from…
Everyday Life…

Camping, privies, and mapping the everyday

11 Jun 2015
At the age of 33, I recently had my first proper experience of camping (my subconscious has all but blocked the ramshackle Cub camps of my youth, although a few excursions…
Black Country…

Space to think

6 Feb 2015
GIS is increasingly being seen as much as a place to think as a simple data management and mapping tool Gillings & Goodrick (1996) "Sensuous and reflexive GIS: exploring visualisation and VRML"  I'm…

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