The first few years - 1989 to c94 - the conference was the last weekend of term before Easter. That worked really well but LTU had to refund students for a night's accommodation so they made us move to July. Never had to miss a conference because of heat before Easter!

The original doc is from 2006 so about 6 years before I first had electronic proofs. Everything was still on paper then though it had moved on from my first NC series in 1991 when cutting and pasting involved a knife and glue to work on proofs. Feels nearer Caxton than today.

Hi Fred - the only version I have is the word doc I originally sent Hodder - is that any use to you? It is probably different in places from the final version and there's no photos but I'm happy to email it to you. Worth asking @apf102.bsky.social as i think he was creating a version.

and i love asking questions and making inferences about what the sources reveal about friendships, anxieties, social contacts, what people were good at, their sense of responsibility etc etc and keeping the national politics as necessary contextual background for the Redmayns' experiences.

Thank you. It's been hugely enjoyable to research - reading at a depth I haven't since postgrad degree - and structure and write in a style of my own - not 'textbook' writing. Above all, it's about the 'texture of lived experiences' of individuals and recognising a common humanity across time ...

I'm keeping my expectations low - main problem at the moment is choosing which of the many options I want to use. The one thing i am confident about is flopping in an exhausted heap on Tuesday afternoon.

I'm sure it will go really well and be a really memorable experience for the students - and for you.

Many congratulations - really pleased to see you've been awarded an Honorary Fellowship - thoroughly deserved and long may your contributions to the community continue!

Kirkstall costumes mostly home made, with old college curtains having a big role (this was pre-blinds). I hired mine and my lady's costumes. Time flies as this photo shows!

2 memories stick out - 60 little monks running round the cloisters etc after lunch, being 10 year olds again but still in costume. And the looks on the faces of the drivers on the A65 who had to stop for us in costume to cross the road led by my lady on her horse

Most fun - the group of deaf children whose task was grooming our horse, loaned by local farmer whose child was in the group.
Least fun - BBC interviewer who tried to ask me about who i really was and couldn't cope with me staying in role as My Lady's steward.