The point of it all...

Suddenly finding myself in third year of university without anything lined up for afterwards is a bit of a shock - I think most of us in my position are having spontaneous mini crises about life when it gets serious. The job market seems a bit of a minefield out there at the moment to say the least but I think I've got some idea of which direction I want to go in....

Since history has taken over my life a little bit in these last 3 years, it seems a good place to start! I've been inspired recently by Neil MacGregor's book, The History of the World in 100 Objects, and with any luck one day I will be able to do something like that. However, the question is: how to get from unemployed undergraduate to successful historian and writer? Well...I thought a blog about what I'm studying, what I think is interesting (and what seems just a bit dull), and what it is like being a 3rd year history student could be a way into it. So here we are!

I tried to start a blog like this in May - but it wasn't exactly a brilliant time with exams and revision making any of my spare time a mission to watch trashy television. Now, with a bit more time, and a bit more to talk about, I can hopefully produce something worth reading.

Let's see!