With the discovery that I haven’t updated my CV in at least 2 years. Oops.
I will try not to bore you all too much with this jobhunting lark over the coming months. But I may need to refer to it from time to time. Besides, I’ll want to post any useful resources I come across. If you have good online resources, reading suggestions, etc - especially those relevant to history and humanities, but just about any academic field really - please drop them off in comments. It will be very much appreciated.
I especially have nightmares about interviews, if anyone has anything useful about that.
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I dunno Sharon, after discovering this:
“Do you have any prejudices you’re willing to acknowledge? > […] People from Essex. ”
I feel so othered!
But still in the spirit of pluralism I offer you some fantastic French history resources I’ve been directed to recently:
- Brown University’s Paris Capital of the Nineteenth Century text and image collection. There’s a great variety of images digitised in a, er, interesting variety of formats.
- Le Drapeau Rouge: a directory of French Revolutionary songs!
- The Image of France: an online index of all the printed imagery permitted to be published in France in the 1810s; but without the actual images.
I haven’t checked the EMR list so I may have just duplicated a load of stuff you already know about. Lazy, but then I am from Essex
Best of Luck. You will slay this jobsearch-beast if any of us can.
Good luck Sharon! A few days ago I found this list of job interview questions compiled by someone who has been to the other side of the looking glass. Might be useful.
Thanks for the links and the kind words.
Rob: I’m sorry. But where I was brought up, well, it was compulsory to hate Essex. (Its only useful function was as a buffer between us and London.) But I’m much better now. Some of my best friends are from Essex.
I’m picking up on a theme here: where I was brought up, it was also compulsory to hate Essex. In this case, it was as a buffer state between us and the Medway Towns. Like Sharon, I’ve moved on, although I’d like to point out that Essex has the ugliest University I have ever seen in the UK.
I’ve been there twice and it’s true, the place is hideous. But the people are nice - their history department does excellent post-grad conferences, if you get a chance to go. Just avert your eyes from the scenery.
Having said that, picking The Ugliest University out of those 1960s campuses is a pretty tough call.
Oh I wouldn’t deny it’s true, Essex is situated on the Hellmouth; but I like to exercise the minority prerogative of monopolising criticism.
If Paris was the capital of the nineteenth century, Essex is certainly the capital of the twenty-first. A combination of post-Thatcherite anti-intellectualism, born-again Daily-Mail racism and, well, absolutely horrendous clothing characterise its finest moments. And my God, if I see another suburban detached house with classical pillars I think I’ll scream…
I remember coming out of the train station the first time I visited my parents after moving to London, when three men in their mid-20s leant out their car window to shout “Gay!” at me. And the university is hideous. But they do have Ernesto Laclau.
And some of its spawn aren’t so bad
I went to UEA (another 60s campus) and after a while it seemed rather beautiful. Like a castle with all its ramparts and what not.
Good luck with the job hunt. I know you won’t need it.
Wouldn’t bet on it. I completely forgot to add to my CV some teaching work I did in 2003 for Continuing Ed until this morning. Hopeless.
Interviewer: What’s your name?
Me: Um, um, hang on and I know I’ll get there in a minute…