Another ridiculous but amazing choir project to raise money for St Mary Mags Oxford (home to a long tradition of early music excellence and history). If you can spare a fiver it would be most appreciated.
💸https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/tallisinwonderland
👂https://bit.ly/TallisMags
Music reshapes how we experience time, space, and each other. This symposium mines neuroscience, history, and philosophy to argue that music’s beauty can create profound bonds of communal belonging and moments of personal transcendence.
With @spparkle.bsky.social et al.
Painting by Joos van Winghe (circa 1600) entitled 'Elegant company, playing with torchlight'. Group of musicians playing lute, flute, harpsichord and a singer, with other instruments on a table in the foreground.
⚠️Register before 12 April ⚠️
Marking Music: the Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe
11–12 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social & online
For scholars of music, book history & related to explore how people engaged with books containing music in early modern period.
www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!
A **new** and **permanent** job in US Politics at the RAI.
An exciting opportunity to help design and launch a new one year Master’s program in US politics, and join our intellectually vibrant (and fun) multidisciplinary dept dedicated to the study of the US and its place in the wider world.
Very excited to be working with @racheljwillie.bsky.social et al and our rather STELLAR editorial board (if I don't say so myself).
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
Too kind! Thank you.
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Gorgeous cover too!
Writing about music close to your heart can be a joy. Writing about music close to your heart with one of your amazing pals is 100x better.
Katie Bank, Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Intermedial Afterlives of the Arma Christi in Orlando Gibbons’s ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’, Music and Letters
In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...
Agonising over what to listen to over your haggis this evening? Never fear! I’m on Radio 3 tonight talking about one of the most incredible musical-visual relics of the Tudor era (complete with singing and top banter with @spparkle.bsky.social and Liz Waring)! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE, the image shows black embroidery of plants and animals on a stained cream linen background.
Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
CfP: ‘Reasons to Sing’: Singing, spirituality, and the search for meaning
We want this event to be really interdisciplinary - do spread the word.
www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/singing if this is too tiny to read.
On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges.
The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
Poster for conference on beauty with mountains and QR code. Www.canbeautysavetheworld.com
Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.
Win up to £1250 for your essay on travel and/or cultural exchange www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... (in spite of the outdated link summary)
A parent can dream… (or in this case, not).
Do say hello if you’re at @srsrensoc.bsky.social Bristol this week! @bhamcrems.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to present at this event a few days ago - my first academic paper delivered 📄😅
Thank you @spparkle.bsky.social and Peter Auger for organising, to the other presenters for some terrific papers, and to those who listened to me and asked questions - very much appreciated!
@crems-york.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social @bhamcrems.bsky.social @emeccwarwick.bsky.social ??
Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
Last few days to get in your abstracts! Popular Recreations in Early Modern England with keynote by Prof Christopher Marsh!
www.katiebankmusic.com/post/call-fo...
Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....
My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic
A bell pepper in the fetal position
Same, little pepper, same
The ByrdCentral website will be going soon. As our last farewell, we wanted to share with you some stats from our education outreach project on the life and music of William Byrd, 'Reasons to Sing'
🎊 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project...
Thank you for following us on our ByrdNyrd journey!
Yayyyyy.
fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
a small ceramic sherd with a stylized geometric pattern in blue and white
thumbnail painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
