Alice's Adventures In Academia

Alice Violett, PhD candidate, University of Essex A blog for things related to my PhD ‘The Only Child In Britain, 1850-1950’. Aiming to do a proper wordy post once a week, and share smaller observations (whether to do with my actual subject or the postgrad life in general) and links/reblogs of others’ work that has caught my eye the rest of the time.Please visit my Academia page and my LinkedIn.I also have a (not always on-topic) Twitter.I was co-organiser of the Myth and Popular Memory Conference at the University of Essex in September 2015.I’m involved with the Colchester Women’s Oral History Project and a member of the Essex Postgraduate History Forum.I’m always looking to network and share ideas so please feel free to contact me on here or via the above channels. 2015 postsGetting My Ducks in a Row (30/10/15)'The Crime Museum Uncovered’ at the Museum of London (23/10/15)A Birthday Spread (16/10/15)#storypast, #transcribathon, and back to teaching (9/10/15)Social History Geekery in York (2/10/15)'Myth and Popular Memory’ Conference, University of Essex, 11-12/9/15 (18/9/15)The Highs and Lows of Conference Organisation (11/9/15)'Children’s Benefit or Burden?’ Workshop, King’s College London, 3/9/15 (4/9/15)Big Data Summer School (28/8/15)The Devil in the Details: The Curious Case of Cecil Day Lewis (21/8/15)Writing Anti-Tips (with illustrations!) (14/8/15)Fighting the Summer Blues #2: Let’s Go Away For A While (7/8/15)Mummys’ Boys, Daddys’ Girls (31/7/15)Sibling Children, Only-Child Stereotypes (24/7/15)Fighting the Summer Blues (17/7/15)Watching Recruitment Presentations: Useful Insight or Terrifying Warning? (10/7/15)'Celebrating Leonore Davidoff’, Institute of Historical Research, 27/6/15 (3/7/15)Board IV: Good Times, For A Change (26/6/15)Thoughts on the 'Children of the Great War’ Film (19/6/15)Crowbarring Foucault Into My Thesis (12/6/15)How to do a History Dissertation (5/6/15)Where I Work (29/5/15)Let’s (Attempt To) Be Positive (22/5/15)Book Review: Xinran - Buy Me The Sky (15/5/15)Re-imagining Childhood’ Conference, University of Greenwich, 9/5/15 (11/5/15)The Acwri Chronicles: The Various Lengths of 1,000 words (8/5/15)Autobiographers, Oral History Interviewees, Self, and Personality (1/5/15)David Copperfield and Other Dickensian Only Children (24/4/15)Not Putting Myself Into My Work (17/4/15)Research Is Messy (10/4/15)Social History Society Conference, Portsmouth 2015 (¾/15)Musing about Museums (27/3/15)A PhD Student’s Work Is Never Done (20/3/15)Introversion, Confidence, and 'Performing’ (13/3/15)IHR Talk: Hester Barron - Parents, Teachers and Children’s Well-being in London, 1918-1939 (6/3/15)Only Children vs. School Sports (27/2/15)Further adventures in NVivo (20/2/15)The Pros and Cons of Being a PhD Student (13/2/15)Assorted Thoughts on Sulloway’s 'Born to Rebel’ (6/2/15)Learning to love my PhD again (30/1/15)'Challenges in the History of Childhood’ Conference, Queen Mary, 16/1/15 (23/1/15)Book Review: Tessa Dunlop - The Bletchley Girls (16/1/15)Blogging vs. Writing Conference Papers (9/1/15)2013/14 posts (by category):Book ReviewsConferences and TalksDiary PostsGeneral AcademiaGeneral PhDMiscellaneousResearch FindingsResearch MethodsGuest Posts I’ve Written“What will the child say when he has grown up? For his good we do this; will he live to thank us?”: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Concerns about Adult Only ChildrenInfluences on Affection and Discipline in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Parent-Child Relationships7 Academic Struggles Predicted by Late 19th and Early 20th Century AutobiographiesRelationships between Parents and Children in the World WarsSelf Care in Academia: How going to the gym keeps me sane in graduate schoolThe Nightmare Before Christmas: A Year of Overcoming 'Scary’ Career ChallengesFIGHT YOUR OWN WAY: The life of actress Julia Neilson