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.

⚠️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).

👀 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.

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...

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...

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.

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 [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

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)

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

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!

🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.

Today's office. Rehearsing Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at #bostonmanorhouse www.ticketsource.co.uk/boston-manor... #earlymodern #earlymusic @beyondshakes.bsky.social @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social

I guess most grant proposals work out like this

Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!

Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!

We've recently updated our Public Engagement Toolkits. Our free, downloadable PDF guides are full of useful ideas and tips for putting on a successful #PublicEngagement event. Toolkit topics include inclusion, partnerships, formats, budget, audiences and more!

I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed.

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

See it if you can. It was super fun.

And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).

Apply by 19 Feb 2025: Trusts & Foundations Manager, London Youth Choirs, UK @londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social www.chorally.co/c/find-jobs/...

in case you missed it during the work week: registration is now open! 🤗

Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are: The jolly old dog as he lay in his den. Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall? A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall Any ideas #earlymodern?

Early modern English print scholar Malcom Jones has curated some pretty spectacular Pinterest boards of 16-18thC prints: pin.it/7xh2qfOJC Worth checking out if you've not been on that particular platform for a while...

17thC text question: "Let us welcome such a guest with Hosanna" - how common is this idea of Christ as a guest? Yes, some of you will know exactly what this is from...

The Bodleian Library Record 36, 1-2 contains work on amateur musicianship and dance tune collecting & a Hebrew poem by Edward Burdon addressed to Queen Elizabeth I. @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, @acfranklin.bsky.social, @francescagalligan.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/BLR36-1-2

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

Bruckner as well!

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

📢JANUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 Our Zooniverse volunteers flagged the extraordinary will of a Berkshire gentleman. It is 3,000 words long and contains more than 50 bequests, including his cushions decorated with his coat of arms 🛡️📜 🗃️ #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Don't forget to send in your applications by Friday! #EarlyModern

📢16th-CENTURY WILLS HAVE ARRIVED!📢 You can now help us transcribe wills from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI on our Zooniverse site. I found money being left for the marriage of poor maidens dwelling with honest men - what will you find? www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #EarlyModern 🗃️

On Wed 12 March, we co-host a hybrid lecture by José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK’s Best Book Award: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

Just over two weeks left to submit an abstract for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'!

Sound and the Senses embodied experiences of hearing, listening and voicing With @racheljwillie.bsky.social & @spparkle.bsky.social www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

Who’s going to sign up for “Sound and the Senses” with @spparkle.bsky.social and me? Go on, you know you want to!