Links for MA 'Methods and Materials' session

I put this list together at speed. I tend to be more aware of 'early modern' blogging. But via this list of links you can start surfing the realm of the academic blog - it is usually a lot more fun than other forms of academic output. Over on American campuses, a reading/discussion blog can make up part of the class assessment. Fairly easy to find are the blogs which record the tribulations of American research students: http://justtenured.blogspot.com/ gives a list of the blogs of those further down the greasy pole, including http://almostbloodydone.blogspot.com/ - there are some amazingly confessional blogs out there.

More seriously, a list of blogs and websites that you might enjoy browsing - and learn things from:

http://www.edublogs.org/forums/topic.php?id=620

This on 'edublogs' might be worth keeping an eye on: it is where educationalists share their resources and teaching aids.

http://bloggingtherenaissance.blogspot.com/

Blog collective on things 16th-17th century: amusing and informed.

http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/ From a blog like this, you can surf on via the links provided by the blogger:

http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/the-blogroll

Early Modern Notes (above) is Sharon Howard's blog. It is largely orientated to history, but the blog is a valuable meeting point (such is her industry) for all things Early Modern.

http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/

Superlative literary blog, tirelessly compiled: all things novelistic, 19th-20th century, Victorian and Neo-Victorian

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

This is the 'Voice of the Shuttle' portal, which you ought to know and explore.

http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2006/08/carnivalesque-18/

http://suchshakespearestuff.blogspot.com/

I haven't found many Shakespeare blogs or forums: they must be out there. This blog is very appealing, a Shakespeare obsessive who picks up on all the arcane Shakespeareana out there on the web.

http://acephalous.typepad.com/

Voluble, funny blog from a completing doctoral student, emerging from theory.

http://patahistory.blogspot.com/

Another history orientated blog, but useful in itself and for its links to digital media

http://airminded.org/

Interesting to anyone working on the 30's and WW2

http://www.greatwarfiction.wordpress.com: a proper academic blog, run by George Simmers at Oxford Brookes: orderly and organised.

http://hijackmcgowan.blogspot.com/

'Smashing the Window': The 60's and 70's: Cultures, Countercultures, Politics, Representations

Need a brain tuning session?

At http://www.princeton.edu/webmedia/lectures: on-line lectures, including Claudia Johnson on 'Jane Austen and War', Hermione Lee on 'Virginia Woolf's Nose', 'Jane Austen Faints' and 'Shelley's Heart'; Helen Vendler on George Herbert

Who could resists a blog called: 'I'm too sexy for my master's thesis'?http://www.jewishlegion.wordpress.com

Medievalists of course should know and take solace from http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/ ('Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog': the parody

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/08/serpentes-on-shippe-spoylerez.html was unsurpassed.)

Start your own blog: via http://www.blogger.com/start, or http://www.wordpress.com, or if you want to do a really pretty blog, http://www.typepad.com will charge $4.95 a month to give you far more templates to choose from.