We’re often told by tutors not to worry about introductions until we’ve got our teeth into the body of the essay, but I’m not sure how regularly I will be updating this blog for the time-being so a brief contextual bookend might be the best you can hope for…
Perhaps the best place to start would be with my identity: I am a third year undergraduate at the University of Leeds studying for a degree in Modern History, my interests lying for the most part with all things Medieval. I have found over the last two years that this history thing is really quite intriguing, and that my plans for that horrible watershed of ‘after you graduate’ seem to be coalescing around a strong desire to step back inside that nice dusty academic bubble and continue my studies. The point of this blog, then, is to document my passage through academia.
