Still waiting on Kirklees council results. Trying to focus on the fact that there are just as many good and kind people in the world as yesterday.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

This coming Tuesday #medievalsky #disabilitystudies #histmed

Bank holiday out of office activated.

JOB KLAXON! New permanent, full-time job in Game Design, based within the Dept of Music at the University of Liverpool. Closes 11 May. Teaching & Research contract. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ097/l... Please share widely.

It's royalties day! And lo, the earnings do not meet the minimum threshold for paying out this year. Maybe I'll get there next year.

I thought this felt relatable

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A while ago, I received word that a mysterious package arrived for me at the office for a campus program I'm loosely affiliated with, now I have it and see that it's a copy of @josephmchardy.bsky.social and Arne Spohr's triumphal scholarly edition of Vicente Lusitano's music! Thanks, Joe!

Week 2 of works in Music. No tap dancing today.

Full of unexpected cold today but managed to make a chicken cacciatore for dinner that pleased, or was at least demolished by, the teens. Definitely comforting.

Today has included a trip to the local greengrocer, barber, bakery, butcher and hardware shop. Feel like I’m in the Elephant and the Bad Baby story, or at least 1957.

News: Karin Bergmann appointed Interim Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival bachtrack.com/news-karin-b...

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Plus de 40 femmes artistes des anciens Pays-Bas sortent enfin de l’ombre au musée des beaux-arts de Gand. #Exposition www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-exposit...

I too loved that book! On the subject of fiction that's about/features historical women composers, upon discovering that there were no collections focussed on that specifically, I created a database. (There are a few newly discovered titles yet to be inputted.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick! www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

PGR Failure Cafe! April 8th, 1pm-3pm in the PGR Common Room at 8-14 Abercromby Square. We've all dropped the ball, lost the plot, missed a deadline, deleted the wrong file, misread the room... failure is universal and you're not alone! Join us for tea, coffee, biscuits and to swap tales of woe 😩😱

Today's #marginalmusicians (#bagpiper, #lutenist & #trumpeter) are all unfinished outlines, with the colours still to be added. From L'Ystoire du tres sainct Charlesmayne, 1475-1500 BnF, Français 4970 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #lute #15thCentury

Out-of-office on for the next week, including bonus bank holiday Monday. Hoorah.

@royalmusical.bsky.social Two more excellent presentations! Lindsay Carter on having a publication plan, Freya Jarman and Catherine Tackley on publishing in journals

At @royalmusical.bsky.social event listening to Richard Anderson on his publication journey

Why does responding to a few reviewer comments inevitably lead to a middle phase of creating endless spaghetti-esque tangles?

"We’ve even upped the ante with Free Time 2.0™. In previous versions, a random birthday party for your coworker Trevor could sneak onto your calendar, destroying your Free Time. In 2.0™, we’ve removed Trevor, and you won’t see his text messages anymore."

Great to see a chapter by @cnlester.bsky.social in this important new book on Strozzi www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Gave a talk about Dame Ethel Smyth at the Victoria Gallery and Museum today, and discussion afterwards brought up the question of who might play her in a biopic. Top suggestions: Olivia Coleman, Margaret Rutherford, Patricia Routledge, Miriam Margolyes. @victoriagallery.bsky.social #IWD

🚨FOUR jobs in Music🚨 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Early Career Development Fellowship in Jazz & Popular Music (2 yr): deadline 31 March 18C Music History (permanent!), Screen Composition (18 mo), Performance (2 yr): deadline 12 March Search "Music": www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs

These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U

**NEW POST** LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap. This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT. leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Train left the station at just the right moment of the finale of Sibelius No.5 on the radio, mirroring the swans taking off. Glorious.

Amazing what a whole day at home, with nothing more taxing than making dinner and watching the Winter Olympics can do. Strongly recommended.

I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for

Before and after the haircut....a change of hairstyle and lifestyle perhaps BnF Latin 12048; Sacramentarium gelasianum; 8th century (c.780 CE-800 CE); France (diocese of Meaux or Cambrai?); ff.9v, 18r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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A day for remembering #HolocaustMemorialDay

Was meant to be a cute, rabbit-themed carrot cake for my wife’s birthday, but has turned out more pagan murder ritual.

gofund.me/ca2d99afb Our fabulous community cricket & bowling club does so much for us all and young people and families in particular. They need a new boiler, not least because it’s Yorkshire!

Can someone with access to Brill's online books help me with a few PDFs from A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages?

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In York for the day and spent the morning walking by lots of special buildings, including the old Borthwick Institute. Hungry work.

The next couple of weeks are essentially to be spent training garden birds to land here ahead of the RSPB bird watch.

Tried to make a map of a medieval town one mile radius around the cathedral today, using AI. It made a map of the modern town on a brown background so it would “look like parchment”.

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#earlymodern - this is a page from Anne Clifford’s 1676 day book. What do you make of it. The marks on the left seem to correlate to the various hands or are they the remnant of an already marked up book? Full transcription in Malay’s edition

Tomorrow the trains will be well, all trains will be well, and all manner of trains will be well.