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I published my first article in an academic journal back in 1993 -- a very memorable moment! Writing for journals and submitting to journals is a big part of academic life, and one in which a sometimes strange interdependency is played out: the journals need authors just as the authors need journals...

I was wondering whether anyone actually reads these occasional blogs, but surprisingly my "Monthly Traffic Report" from Google says they have been looked at over 40 times. Well, since the last one, one thing that has come out is a piece marking Napoleon's bicentenary. Napoleon died on St H...

Well, there was nothing wrong with the old website, originally created in 2003; "There is no doubt whatever about that." But in 2020 Zoho updated all their platforms, and no longer offered updates for the older sites. Rather than just trying to copy the old site, I made a decision to redes...

The March issue of Opera has just reached Japan, and it contains my article "A Very Personal Opera: Fennimore and Gerda, Philip Heseltine, and the End of Delius's Operatic Career." It's printed really well, with several photos. I've written a number of articles for Oper...