“Great fears of the Sicknesse here in the city, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. . . . God preserve us all,” wrote Samuel Pepys in 1665. The thirty-two-year-old British politician began keeping a daily record of the bubonic plague's ravaging of London that spring. His words feel a …
Five on a Friday: Helpful links for graduate students at all stages
This year I am finishing up my final semester as a graduate student. In the coming weeks, many postgraduates (as we are called in the UK) will be looking toward the submission of dissertations, defenses, and graduation. Other students will be looking, with anticipation, to the start of their graduate school career in the …
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