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...

c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.

Field trip with 20 students to Chester Cathedral today.

These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱 Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Still plenty of things to find in the archives www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#31DaysofGraves #Day24 #UnusualAnimal Found in the 18thC in the grounds of nearby Dyke parish church, "Rodney's Stone" features a carving of the Pictish Beast, an unidentified animal found on numerous stones around Scotland, variously thought to be a dolphin or an elephant. More at: buff.ly/B6OfAKF

The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📜 A national project led by University of Exeter is reviving Henry VIII’s Valor Ecclesiasticus — a Tudor-era survey of England’s churches, land & people. Digitised & mapped for the first time, it’s a fresh look at 16th-century life. https://ow.ly/jeN050Xarsh

It’s that time of year when kids who were terrified of Harry Potter films about five days ago have somehow been watching Scream. Maybe it was longer ago and I’m much older than I thought. #Halloween

Fellow historians may enjoy this super corrective from Allan Barton at The Antiquary. youtu.be/sVKavKfppQc?...

Went to the archives today with two classes and we saw and sang from medieval manuscripts, explored an early modern print of Byrd songs, and an 1840s edition of Purcell’s Bonduca (ie story of Boudica). Recording recommendations for Bonduca welcome, including any “with piano forte accompaniment“!!

The sparrows are VERY LOUD TODAY. I love them, but it’s like they don’t care about my inbox at all.

There is only 3 days left before the #IMC2026 Bursary application portal closes! 😱 The deadline is Wednesday, 15 October 2025 at 23:59:59 BST (GMT +1). Click here to read about how to apply for an IMC Bursary: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/about/bursary/ #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The Faculty of Music seeks to appoint a Betts Fellow in Organ Studies, who is responsible for creating an enhanced profile for organ activities and study at Oxford, and for fostering a community amongst organ scholars across the collegiate University. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🎧 Looking for a lunchtime listen? Our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast features Grace Goodwin from our Music Dept sharing her work tackling gender and regional inequalities in the music business. Smash the system here 🤘 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

All I want for today is to match this fox's joyous energy.

Karen Carney, La Voix and Ellie Goldstein were my favourites tonight, but everyone was brilliant. Bring on Autumn #Strictly

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

Sundays now that we’re back to one child with football matches and the other desiring karaoke duets (both teens though) 🎤 ⚽️

Apply to be a University Teacher in Music Technology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT479/u...

Were you there? Last Friday, we mean, when researchers from UoL worked with pop fans to help chart Liverpool's lost music venues. If you want to find out how it went, listen to Richard Anderson chat to Ngunan Adamu on Radio Merseyside(1hr 32mins in). #BSF25

First coffee in my #LightbulbMoments mug! The exhibition opened last week at the Victoria Gallery & Museum @livuninews.bsky.social and is worth it as much for the dolphin skeleton as seeing the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on display.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

I guess I have to pull this one back out... 🙄

The first eight books in our new partnership with ‪@livunipress.bsky.social have just been published – and with them, we are proud to offer new ‘delayed Open Access’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46opK0r

If it's not too late for a New Year's Resolution, I firmly resolve to stop writing people's names onto post-it notes without further explanation, then covering up said notes with sedimentary layers of paper, thereby removing any chance of remembering why I wrote the name down in the first place.

Composer of the Week was Domenico Scarlatti and it turns out that harpsichord sonatas are an excellent commuting soundtrack. The clatterier the better. Jean Rondeau’s A minor is fabulous, but he may damage your harpsichord www.warnerclassics.com/release/scar... @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Worth reading: a brief evisceration of the BBC's expensive historical bin-fire #kingandconqueror. There's too many historical inaccuracies to fully list! historiamag.com/review-king-...

I'm enjoying various threads about King & Conqueror more than the programme itself so far. My main issue is that it is TOO DARK and that everyone is dressed in brown all the time. The horse hairstyles are awesome, and I'm glad they had some women musicians.

Celebrating the many, wonderful musical contributions of Duncan Druce, a concert on 20 September at St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, 5pm. No tickets but donations to MSF welcome.

I'd really recommend the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career... ) - you don't need an affiliation to join, but you get access to free workshops & events (the network pays for travel to its own events), & to funding and grants!

*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Policy update: Early Music is always pleased to consider for publication articles of between 4,000 and 6,000 words. Any author interested in submitting a longer article would be welcome to contact the editors in the first instance to discuss any proposed submission. academic.oup.com/em/pages/Gen...

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

Another happy manuscript discovery: all the files from the 2010 digitization of the St. Chad Gospels by the University of Oklahoma/Lichfield Cathedral project have been CC licensed & made available for batch download at lichfield.ou.edu/cc-download! #medievalsky #paleography #insularart

Currently wondering how I will get to work and back when Huddersfield train station is closed for a whole month to mid September. Looks like 5-6 hours commuting per day. Unappealing.

It's #BandcampFriday!!! If you want to pre-order one of these limited edition beauties - or even if you just want the digital album - head over to musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord... All sales today are commission-freeee to the group. Your support means so much to us. #nuntastic #earlymodern

Died (alas!) on this day in 1693, in Amsterdam, Willem Kalf. Extraordinary still life painter. Here from 1653, drinking horn & lobster. A+ diagonals there! Strangely energetic for painting of dead things.