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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.

Congratulations to Bishop Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, who has just been elected to be the new Archbishop of Wales! Llongyfarchiadau i Esgob Cherry Vann, Esgob Mynwy, sydd newydd gael ei ethol yn Archesgob newydd Cymru! #ChurchInWales #EglwysYngNghymru #ArchbishopOfWales

Lovely new article by Honey Meconi in the Choral Journal, all about Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, whose original manuscript is part of the Special Collections & Archives at University of Liverpool (special mention fn.27!) @livunisca.bsky.social acda-publications.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/CJ/August202...

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Verifying my age by formatting all my academic references without citation software

#CFP for #IMC2026 'New Approaches to Medieval Office Liturgy'. @imc-leeds.bsky.social Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Two Department of Music graduates have won prizes at the Outstanding Graduate Awards hosted by UK Music! Dora Kmezic won joint first prize and Jack Drummond-Joy won joint second prize Read more www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s... @livunihss.bsky.social

At some point in the recent past a resentful child has mispaired a substantial number of socks, all black but different sets / lengths / owners.

Getting to enjoy the football this evening. Booked off work for a full week ahead, planning for more of this kind of thing.

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Does anyone know anyone – or anywhere – that runs nature writing courses in the North East/Tyneside/Newcastle?

Signed a publication agreement for an article I've co-authored with @karendesmond.bsky.social & Jared Hartt, for Plainsong & Medieval Music this autumn, based on work we shared two MedRens ago (in Munich 2023). Conferences are vital to making good collaborations and sharing our work!

Post MedRen mood

@fatherhilarious.blog Thank you for your company on an unnecessarily long and occasionally energetic journey home.

Book display at MedRen had a couple of familiar titles! @medren2025.bsky.social

@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉

The entire @medren2025.bsky.social conference is being shipped on coaches to Durham for the day, and we are promised a dragon. What could possibly go wrong? 🐉

@medren2025.bsky.social What an amazing day and another excellent concert. Brilliant performances and Hugh Aston’s music was phenomenal.

Looking forward to showcasing our UNESCO World Heritage city tomorrow when @durham-university.bsky.social hosts #MedRen2025! If you're lucky, you may even see one of our famous Durham dragons...🐉

I was searching Digital Bodleian today, and found this beautifully illustrated early 16th century manuscript entitled "Founder's and benefactors' book of Tewkesbury Abbey" (Bodleian Library MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2). You can view the partial digitization here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/dc03...

I just want to run through my conference paper for 20 uninterrupted minutes. This has so far today proven impossible, but I’m reassured that there is a specific slot in the conference itself for me to give it my best shot…

🧜‍♀️ For #FolkyFriday, here's Prof @sarahpeverley.bsky.social's research into the vengeful tale of the mermaids of Staithes and what became of the humans who captured them 🧜‍♀️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....