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		<title>Teaching &amp; Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer must be coming to an end: the Open Studies 2010-11 programme is out. This year, I&#8217;m not offering my old faithfuls, the Six Wives of Henry VIII and the Life &#038; Times of Elizabeth I. I&#8217;ve had great fun teaching them over the last few years but felt that I, and potential students, needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s courses at the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Office of Lifelong Learning are on the website now. These are arranged by tutors and OLL staff many months in advance but when they are published for students to sign up to, it&#8217;s very exciting! I&#8217;m teaching 2 courses this year: The Tudors (replacing my Six Wives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Henry of Navarre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a week ago I went to see Henri 4 (beware a slightly annoying website, in German- this site has the details without the seemingly unstoppable video), Henry of Navarre for English audiences, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. I was delighted to see that they were showing it as I had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Off to London to see (some dead) queens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I am off to London. My partner&#8217;s work have sent him down there for a course so I am taking advantage of his plush hotel and joining him. We&#8217;ll be staying in Kensington, just along the road from the Natural History Museum and the V&#038;A and just round the corner from the French bookshops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=92</link>
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		<title>More Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the end of Classical Greece is only a few pages away (more of that in another post soon). However, a good two weeks ahead of schedule, Amazon have sent me this. I&#8217;ve had this on pre-order since January. There have been numerous new books published in the last few years about the Tudors, Anne [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Classical Greece by Robin Osborne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book 1 for the Short Oxford Histories project arrived today. It was a welcome distraction from the horrible weather (pouring rain and snow in Scotland at the moment), leaking roof and the cold that has overstayed its welcome. I&#8217;m excited about starting and now wondering if I should stick to my arbitrary starting date of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a result of working on the Cleopatra research, I&#8217;ve remembered how much I enjoyed Ancient History at uni and how much I&#8217;ve forgotten. Consequently, I&#8217;m now reading The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox. It&#8217;s had a few Amazon reviews saying it&#8217;s dull but I&#8217;m not finding it so. This may, of course, be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Role Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often say that one of the reasons I feel so passionately about this project is that modern girls and young women lack good heroines. Cheryl Cole seems like a perfectly pleasant woman but is she really the best we can aspire to? A reality t.v. show pop start, married (though apparently not for much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=60</link>
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		<title>A discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been irritated by the sizeable gap in my list of infamous women. From the early Roman Empire (Messalina and Agrippina) there is a huge lacuna, in which Empress Wu floats about friendless, until Empress Matilda in the twelfth century. I couldn&#8217;t believe that the thousand between Nero&#8217;s mother and Saint Margaret&#8217;s granddaughter had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harlotsharpiesharridans.com/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Lady in Her Bath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This portrait by Fran&#231;ois Clouet (son of Fran&#231;ois Ier&#8217;s court painter, Jean Clouet) is housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. Painted in 1570 or 1571, it was thought to depict Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II. This is mainly due to the painting being dated 1550, during Henri&#8217;s reign. In [...]]]></description>
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