Monday, 7 January 2008

I fielded several enquiries about our advert for a BME Advocacy worker, and wrote to Capacitybuilders about the low level of funding for Hertfordshire. Late on I had a call from a lady doing some Mental Health research in South West Herts who wants to meet up on Wednesday.

I finished (re-)reading She by H Rider Haggard. There are too few Victorian novels in which the male romantic lead marries an African woman, and in which the English hero calls an African elder “Father” and in return gains the sobriquet of “Baboon”. Excellent stuff. Then I moved on to W E Tate’s The English Village Community and the Enclosure Movements (another excellent read offering fascinating detail of the open field agriculture) and finally to Gary Waite’s Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.