Lovely to talk to the wonderful @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social about her new novel Ice Shock at @hatchards.bsky.social Bookshop in Piccadilly. A totally compelling exploration of human connection, even at the end of the earth.
#Bookstagram #NewNovel #AuthorEvent #LiteraryFiction #LondonEvents
Very proud of my husband Simon Over as he hosts Queen Camilla and shows her @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social. #Queen #classicalmusic #music #royalfamily @royalfamily.bsky.social
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✨🎶 Starting TONIGHT and all this week on #BBCRadio3 🎶✨
This week Mon–Fri at 21:45, I’m broadcasting a special five-part series from the collections of the #MuseumofMusicHistory.
🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
Join OCLW's life-writing class to learn craft and form in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams.
📆Mondays in term time | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
Open to all
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Sir Stephen Hough was rather taken with the digitorium, a bit less frightening than the dactylium, which is half village stocks, half finger trap. Nightmare. What ARE we up to?! All will be revealed on BBC Radio 3, week beginning 19 Jan. #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory #VictorianCuriosities
Sir Stephen Hough doesn’t really need his fingers, does he?! Having fun torturing him with eccentric and deservedly forgotten finger strengthening contraptions from the C19th. They didn’t do #Schumann much good, perhaps Stephen will do better? #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory
There are few things more Christmassy than a Messiah 🎄🎶 — and Wild Arts’ semi-staged (#TomMorris) memorised Messiah is on another level for storytelling and audience engagement.
At @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social it was a triumph 👏✨ Catch it at Chichester or Chelmsford if you can!
www.wildarts.org.uk
‘Non-fiction can’t do justice to the times we’re in’ — Olivia Laing on her novel The Silver Book at @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social lecture last night ✨📚🎤
#OliviaLaing #TheSilverBook #Oxford #OxfordCentreForLifeWriting #AuthorTalk #WritersOfInstagram #BookLovers
Delighted to share @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social selected my book as one of their #BooksoftheYear2025! Need a Christmas present?!
Thank you to Tony Curtis who discovered it via @lrb.co.uk.
Read here:
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
#Books #WritersOfBluesky #Cello 🎻📚✨ #Christmas2025
This is wonderful, thank you!
Our #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social
@drkkennedy.bsky.social
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social
& @poetrybuspress.bsky.social
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
Thrilled to announce the launch of a new baroque ensemble: Guerrero Baroque Collective! 🎶✨
Come hear us on:
📅 Saturday 6 December
🕢 19:30
⛪ Catholic Church of Saint James, London
Ft. Ana Beard Fernández and friends from Southwell Consort.
🎫 Book tickets:
www.guerrerobaroquecollective.com
Treacherous black rocks at The Lizard in #Cornwall, where Ethel Smyth found inspiration for her Cornish gothic #opera The Wreckers! ⚫🌊⛅🎶
Not sure whether #EthelSmyth also indulged in local food, but thought I’d go the whole Cornish hog!
@southwestcoastpath.bsky.social @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
The @suttonhoo.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk lyre — an imaginative reconstruction from the fragments of the #AngloSaxon original discovered in the burial mound 🪕
The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
At Hatchlands Park @nationaltrust.org.uk with the OAE’s keyboard specialist Stephen Devine, revelling in a wealth of historic instruments 🎹✨ But I’m here to explore #Napoleon ’s piano — his wedding gift to his teenage bride, who sobbed in her carriage all the way from Vienna 🎼💔
#NationalTrust
🎆 Fireworks on the weekend at BBC Radio 3's Record Review!
Explosive playing from my choices of Sinfonia of London, @thehalle.bsky.social, and super-cellist Gautier Capucon 🎻✨ Expect resurrection, celebration, and more!
📻 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#Radio3 #RecordReview
Lovely record track choices on Record Review, @drkkennedy.bsky.social with Andrew McGregor, #BBCradio3
If you haven’t yet tuned in… podcast available via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social!
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
From the conclusion of this year’s ‘On Life-Writing’ series: @drkkennedy.bsky.social and Hermione Lee answered the enduring question facing biographers— ‘How Close is Too Close?’.
Thrilled by these amazing reviews just days after our triple-episode launch ❤️
Thank you @drkkennedy.bsky.social, Louisa Rogers & @nickhewitt4.bsky.social! Next episode drops 28 October.
podfollow.com/historyffs
We’d love to hear what you think!
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #NewPodcast #ListenNow
Had a wonderful conversation with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! - exploring music, memory, and the missing cello that connects generations. 🎻
Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧
👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs
#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
Couldn’t imagine a better way to start the series. Thank you, Kate, for such a beautiful discussion about sound, silence, and remembrance - it set the tone perfectly for HistoryFFS.
Great new #History podcast coming next week “History For F***'s Sake”
@historyffs.bsky.social
Episode 1: with the fabulous Kate Kennedy @drkkennedy.bsky.social
#History
#BritishHistory
#skystorians #academicsky
#historyeducation
#podcast
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🚨🎙️ Episode 1 streaming next Tuesday 21 October 2025 ✨Excited to be opening the brand new @historyffs.bsky.social podcast series!
Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚
Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'
📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
✨ Here's the front-page review of Cello by Thomas Laqueur in this week’s @lrb.co.uk! 🎻
👉 Full review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
📖 Only £10.11 on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...
#Cello @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
📻 This Sunday 12 October at 19:30 📻
Tune in and listen to the re-release of my BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, ‘The Cello and the Nightingale’, and hear why Beatrice Harrison’s famous recording made history. 🎶
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#BBCRadio3 #radio3 #cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
👏 Well played – the Brahms and that lovely cello tune in the #Haydn slow movement sounded great! 🎶
A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
One whole week of Duet! It’s been an absolute whirlwind of incredibly enriching conversations with @petroc.bsky.social @elizabethalker.bsky.social and @drkkennedy.bsky.social and SUCH a delight to see this whimsical little book out into the world. Available now in all good bookshops!
Explored how we see music - instruments as art, sound as colour. We could have talked for hours @ @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social. @elliechan.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @duckworthbooks.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
