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?

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February. www.bl.uk/services/res...

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.

Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Granted, my Navigator role went awry about an hour from the destination, bringing the total journey time to eight hours. BUT we did end up driving through Romsey, the medieval abbey records of which I was only reading yesterday. My family were placated by stopping also at a village pub. All’s well.

New washing up backing track

Benefits of home working - daughter has made me a Christmas-coloured omelet for lunch.

Benefits of home working - daughter has made me a Christmas-coloured omelet for lunch.

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

It wasn't just monks who liked their eels...nuns did, too! In the 1280s the nuns of Romsey Abbey in Hampshire rented lands in the village of Welles to Nicholas de Barbeflete for some customary labor, 57s., 200 herrings, & 300 eels per year. Can't let the monks have all the fun! 🗃️🧪

NEWS | Early Music finds a new home in The Peak District 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/early-music-... @buxtonfestival.bsky.social

Two more days until Christmas break.

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

This is such a lovely image, and perfect illustration for tomorrow’s team writing day.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

We have a fully funded PhD (+ research expenses) in Ethnomusicology going in @ucddublin.bsky.social supervised by my new colleague, Abigail Lindo. Abigail is looking to supervise in a host of exciting & pertinant areas. Full details below: www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

My next book has a presence on the Boydell & Brewer website. 'Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880: Sounding "Polish"'. Available Spring 2026! boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

You can apply at any stage in your career but you must: • Be aged 18+ at the time of applying • Be a woman (cis or trans) or gender-diverse person • Be based in Yorks and the Humber 🧵3/4 Find out more and apply by 11 January here: yorkshiresoundwomen.com/yswn-rewired...

📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber. We're offering: • 3 micro-commissions of £750 • 1 main commission of £1,500 🧵1/4

We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance! All proposals to be sent to [email protected] by 17:00 on Friday 9th January. #medievalsky #skystorians

There is something that looks like flu in my house, and I don’t want it!

A Christmas single by @liverpooluni.bsky.social alumnus, and a chance to support the Walton Centre for Christmas. @sotauol.bsky.social alumni.liv.ac.uk/news/stories...

The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate students on the theme ‘Sounds and Silence.’ Please submit abstracts of 250 words to [email protected] by 8 December 2025. Details Below

Hoping tomorrow brings fewer things at once.

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We have accessed this funding for specialist support during times of crisis.

Very excited to see our article on a fabulous central European music fragment now out in Plainsong & Medieval Music. Thanks to co-authors Jared Hartt & Karen Desmond! Fully open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This might be of interest to a few people The Boring Fund: Small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups who just need a bit of help to pay for boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 November www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

This is awful news to come out of Nottingham. MedRen-ers will be aware that Nottingham has hosted three MedRens in 2012, 1985, and the first ever MedRen in 1972. Do consider signing the petition in the next post. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reposting because of the interest of the book and article, but also because the thread gets to some of the fine grain of the impact of redundancies. In every way they threaten so much.

I'm lucky to have worked with one of the many brilliant people in these departments. Henry Parkes in Music is one of the cleverest, most insightful and inspirational historians I know - and one of the finest teachers too. Don't waste such talent @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.

Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended. Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...