As some of you may know I have been undertaking a long term research project for longer than I would like to recall. Anyway I made the decision this year that I was going to right up my findings and publish them in a paper. This sounded so straight forward – I know a huge amount about the subject of my research and what could be easier. Well hubris I say Hubris.

The process of pulling the paper together as made me realise that, whilst I do know an awful lot about my subject, there are gapping holes in my evidence that need to be addressed before I can publish something to my satisfaction. I suspect I’m being too anal about all this and I should go ahead an publish but I just can’t. I have to have answers to questions that have appeared whilst put the paper together. So it looks like more hours spent looking at old maps in records offices. I think I’ll leave this until the autumn!

Simon Marchini
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