{"id":67,"date":"2014-06-09T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/srfb\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-06-09T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:04:59","slug":"best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2014\/06\/09\/best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Best laid plans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before\u00a0getting home\u00a0from running the marathon in Boston and\u00a0 then visiting my faculty&#8217;s\u00a0partner institution\u00a0in Ontario, Huron University College\/Western University (a vast campus on the edge of London, a city far larger than I had envisaged\u00a0located at the very heart of Anglophone Canada), I was aware that my plans for a swift return to Fairey would not materialise.\u00a0 As well as marking\/moderation and fulfilling a couple of magazine commitments, May was taken up with researching and writing a report for the University, thereby negating any prospect of research on CRF&#8217;s papers presently on loan from Yeovilton and drafting a preliminary account of my man&#8217;s early life (a partially filled framework for chapter 1).\u00a0 However, apart from two or three WW1 commitments over the next five weeks, belatedly I should be back to Fairey; uninterrupted across the summer through to the end of the year.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope that these words do not come to haunt me, as my previous blog clearly has.\u00a0 Tonight I give my (belated) inaugural lecture, marking the seventieth anniversary today of the death in Normandy\u00a0of the soldier-poet and memoirist Keith Dougals (captain, Sherwood Rangers\/Nottinghamshire Yeomanry).\u00a0 There is a tie-in article in the current issue of the <em>New Statesman<\/em> and a podcast of the lecture will eventually be available via the Faculty of Humanities website.\u00a0 But enough of this shameless self-promotion &#8211; I need to put on\u00a0my fresh shirt, pressed suit, and suitably sombre tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before\u00a0getting home\u00a0from running the marathon in Boston and\u00a0 then visiting my faculty&#8217;s\u00a0partner institution\u00a0in Ontario, Huron University College\/Western University (a vast campus on the edge of London, a city far larger than I had envisaged\u00a0located at the very heart of Anglophone Canada), I was aware that my plans for a swift return to Fairey would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2014\/06\/09\/best-laid-plans\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}