Wonderful! Many thanks Simon!

The Essay - Music Rediscovered - The influential Italian singing master - BBC Sounds Brianna Robertson-Kirkland demonstrates the fashionable singing style in 1780s Edinburgh.

So honoured to have been asked to record an episode of BBC's The Essay: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's on Domenico Corri, one Corri who will feature heavily in my forthcoming book! @bsecs.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social

Publication day for Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, 1550-1850 We are excited to announce the publication of a new collection of essays by WSG members, Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, 1550–1850, edited by Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland and Louise Duc…

We are excited to announce the publication of a new collection of essays by WSG members, Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, 1550–1850, edited by @breerob-kirk.bsky.social and @louiseduckling.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone involved! womensstudiesgroup.org/2026/02/19/p...

So pleased to announce that MUSIC INDUSTRY AND FAMILY NETWORKS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: THE CORRI FAMILY IN EDINBURGH AND LONDON, 1771–1825 is now under contract with Boydell and Brewer! Many, many thanks to the series editors and those who have supported this work so far! @bsecs.bsky.social

Well, look what just came through the door. Delighted that this edited collection with @louiseduckling.bsky.social will be available for everyone to read! Lovely work from our @wsguk.bsky.social ! #skystorians #womenstudies

Still talking about Singing today, but this time about how singing can benefit a person's health! #music #research

Having lots of fun recording something exciting 🕵️🎶

Good news for the New Year... I will reveal all in due course

It was the closest anyone could get to a recording of her voice (before the era of audio recordings). I am honoured to reintroduce the world of music to her vocal stylings, whilst also offering modern day singers examples of appropriate vocal ornamentation from the early nineteenth century. 3/3

Elizabeth Billington (1765-1818) was the foremost opera singer in the Georgian Britain, achieving international recognition for her singing. The Songs Sung by Mrs Billington (1801) was captured her impressive musicianship and vocal ability by notating her stylistic ornaments. 2/

Now that the contract is signed, I am delighted to say that I will soon publish a new edition of The Songs Sung by Mrs Billington with A-R Editions. 1/

Listen to this wonderful podcast with SUP Editorial Board member Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, recorded for #OAWeek!

Brianna discusses why #OpenAccess is so important, especially for smaller arts institutions and ECRs 🔓

Thanks to @sahavoice.bsky.social for arranging 🙏

Finally working on my chapter on John Corri and Corri and Sutherland. There is quite a lot to untangle with this one!

It was wonderful to speak with Federica on this podcast where I am representing Scottish Universities Press.

Looking forward to our quarterly @bsecs.bsky.social Council meeting today! I've been on leave so this is my first one back in a while!

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies thei…

So excited to see our book is now available for pre-order from Bloomsbury - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and...
A must read for anyone interested in gender studies, music, art, philosophy, writing, and history! With @louiseduckling.bsky.social

I have been quiet on here lately but working a lot on my Corri project. I have been really enjoying all their lodgings and work-relatedocations to Google maps. Helps me visualise all of the places they went in Edinburgh! #ScotlandHistory

Congratulations! Can't wait to have the volume in my hands!

The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of folk plays, performances,

So pleased to have a chapter on Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd in this volume: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Thank you so much Rhona. Looking forward to working with you again!

So pleased to have to join the board!

Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’ YouTube video by IASSL

The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

It's publication day! So pleased to have this book in my hands! Come check out my chapter on Nancy Storace and Michael Kelly! #skystorians @bsecs.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social

BSECS Annual Conference BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

The Programme for #BSECS2025 is out! So many fabulous papers including online & hybrid options. If it's your first time joining us, check out our mentorship scheme for conference support.

Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025 #18thC #skystorians 🗃️

www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this volume looks forward into the nineteenth and ear...

I have a chapter on Rauzzini in this fabulous volume! And if you buy now, you get 25% off - www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey...
@BSECS #skystorians

Are you an academic (preferably ECR) and interested in coming to work with me one week this summer in Glasgow on a database of early recordings of pre-1800 music, funded by the COST action EarlyMuse? All info in the link; apply by 10th January drive.google.com/file/d/1ug-u...

Are any of the lovely people here going to the London Archives soon and could snap a couple of photos of sources for me? I'm in Glasgow with a newborn so can't make it to London at the moment. #skystorians

Tomorrow starts week 3 of #Acnowrimo. I know you are supposed to write every day, but I take weekends off. Writing the introduction of my next monograph. Who else of Acnowrimoing? #writing #18thc #skystorians

I have gained a lot of new followers over the last 24 hours so let me introduce myself. I work on 18th-century singing and singers. Working on a project about prima donnas and media representation and a book about the Corri family