It has been a pretty eventful week. First bit of teaching in nearly a year (due to module rescheduling), a paper in the IHR, and a cup semi-final later today for my football team. Everything has gone reasonably well so far, so let's hope the luck doesn't run out today!

The seminar groups are pretty good this year, though there were lots missing so maybe I've been blessed with the best of the bunch this week? But if the ones who haven't appeared so far turn out to be at the same standard as the others, it should be a good module.

The paper went very well, as far as I can tell. The feedback was very positive and I managed to answer most of the questions with plenty of detail and insight. One person pointed out that I had made a mistake, confusing one Bishop William Stubbs with another Bishop William Stubbs. It was the first I'd heard of another Bishop Stubbs; but of course he was entirely correct and I am grateful to him to pointing this out. It will mean a few cosmetic changes when I talk about Stubbs; nothing thesis-changing, but it would have been quite bad had those mistakes survived through to the final draft (though I'm sure other readers would have spotted it too). So my thanks are due to that person, whose name unfortunately I didn't quite catch.

Next week I will start on the first bits of prescriptive, constructive material the Christian Socialists produced in order to change society. Much has been written already about the White Lists and such, so hopefully it is not a chapter that will take up much of my time. Then I've only got 2 chapters to write from notes (plus another short section on poverty), and a further to write from a bit of archival digging and re-consultation of the periodicals, and that'll be a first draft done. Here's to finishing that before the end of March!