We are recruiting for a new Education Manager;
responsible for adult, family and youth learning including London Youth Folk Ensemble and our Inclusive Folk programme for learning disabled young people.
The deadline to apply is 30 June.
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/3Sup9nd
Call for papers: Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs
A two-day conference to be held on Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 November.
Relevant areas include music for dance, broadside balladry, minstrelsy, music hall, pleasure gardens, domestic and children’s songs.
Deadline: 30 June 2025.
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This gets my vote, for what it’s worth!
I find that doing yoga in front of the shelves allows me to view their spines from all angles to mature my choice.
Depending on where you are, your local public library card gets you past a lot of paywalls (eg, read newspapers in the app, or on paper in the building). Also, employers sometimes subscribe to relevant things, again depends on what it is. Multiple log-ins unavoidable it seems.
Other than the date, it is impossible to tell that this is an April Fool’s.
I have an amazing mantelpiece clock that I was told would cost £1k to fix, if he’s looking for interesting projects… but I am not a church 😂
I wouldn’t list them all, it has always been normal to consult more than you cite, just give an indication of scale. If you can deposit the actual dataset in a uni repository for sustainable access then all the better.
I'm so excited to announce that mine &
@odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/
Bet someone else wanted to read it so they just said that. (The thought it wasn’t actually thrown away comforts me a little.)
I left my favourite hat on a train once, and went through the same mini-grief experience.
ASaiL Visual Arts Scholar: Project: Abolition Song and its Legacies
Guildhall School of Music & Drama #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM953/a...
We are delighted to announce with the National Archives and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social that the History and Archives in Practice 2025 registration is now live!
Join us to explore 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance' orlo.uk/HAP25_hq0EE
So thrilled that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (hashtag #HAMH ) is already reaching readers! Thanks, @halperta.bsky.social, for sharing this great photo. Pre-order/ask your library to order it today! www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury
I have been meaning to do this for a while, I shall move it up the list. ❤️
He’ll get the joke in a second, don’t worry 🙄
The image is a page from John Malchair’s tunebook at the VWML dating from the early 1780s, including typical marginalia about where/when/from whom he heard the tune, which is why I love this source. The tune itself begins: do dum do-be-do do do do, do dum do-be-do do ba-do dum.