Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

Thank you for the shout-out Classical:NEXT for our new Composers' Hub! Composers: find opportunities, awards, funding, bursaries, interviews & more: www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub

extraordinary 1921 census record... secret service milliner? They must have needed hats... #history

HarperCollins Author Academy opens 8th January, a virtual, six-week, free programme for writers from underrepresented to have their manuscript considered across HarperCollins UK publishing divisions. Please share with anyone that might be interested. Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk

Just 5 tickets left for our book launch in Birmingham this Thursday, with talks on naval surgeons and abolition, chartist poetry, and the invisible work of theatre cleaners @sarahinthepark.bsky.social. Free wine, good cheer! book here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

This is coming up on Dec 11th, next week!

Not an email from Avanti saying we'll get you " ho ho home" when they've cancelled my train and the next one already is getting later and later 💀

Come along to the book launch at the perfect setting of the Back to Backs in Brum. I'll be there talking about theatre cleaners writing the empty stage! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

The book proposal is on the loose! Off to review, fingers crossed for it, a history of ladies orchestras in Britain.

It is the year 3023. Computers now do all of the talking. They still cannot correctly insert an image into microsoft word without breaking everything they have ever held dear. This is how they remember us.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

rare couple of hours of writing, and realising again how important it is if you're not sure about structure to just let that be, and _continue writing_ - sometimes you just have to see how the thing comes out and fix it afterwards #amwritinghonestly

Devastating news from Manchester 💔

Hugely proud to have a chapter in this collection! I explore the missing history of theatre cleaners, often a women's history, and traced the fragments of their lives that remain.

We spoke to Laura Hamer about her free course with @openuniversity.bsky.social 🎶 It includes interviews with experts in the field championing the music of women composers, advocating for greater gender equity within the classical music industry 📣 🔗Read more: www.musicmark.org.uk/news/researc...

It's not "unproven". It's false. A lie. Untrue. Mendacious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also can we stop with the "unproven" claims and just say what it is. False claims. Lies.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

In case you hadn't heard this wonderful late Rodgers and Hart song, please enjoy 'To Keep My Love Alive' www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmXe...

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency. Here are three ways to fight back. Take action now: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

Meanwhile ProQuest has moved into direct check ins or... threats?

Historic theatre listing or a description of a Phd?

This is a hugely important report which gathers together devastating testimony about what is happening and being experienced across the LGBTQ community, and the way in which our trans family are being segregated in daily life. Please take a moment to write to your MP.

So this is my lovely news!

Word of advice for coming back from leave. If all those emails didn't come in during one day, you cannot actually answer them in one day either. Breathe.

It's always penalties. Always #SWEENG

What's your favourite niche album? I'm not talking Ella sings Gershwin here, we are thinking the Supremes sing Rogers and Hart, the Disco Sondheim album... rock anthems from your Grandad's shed... the more specific the better

got to have a serious photo for a work thing, and this may be one of the best options.

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published? Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists. Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

Got excited about creating a butterfly feeding station with some questionable fruit. What I've actually done is created a Wasp Service Station, with the occasional visit of a butterfly like 'wow, there are a lot of wasps here'.

Had a joyful day of Graduations today, with amazing PhD students celebrating their achievements. Love meeting students families and seeing them beam with joy too

Wordle 1,472 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It finally happened

Brilliant opportunity here that recognises the situation we're in!

All fun and games until one day you have to buy a double glasses case.

Surveying the slug eaten lupins She says, with certainty, It will be better next year. She is 91 in July. To be So sure. To hear the blackbird singing over the hedge. It will be better next year. #tinypoem #whatiwrote

In reference to the headlines doing the rounds from the Guardian story this morning, we've been here before. Queer history is not a straight line. What happens to our trans family happens to us all.

What an absolute feminist killjoy joy to see @saranahmed.bsky.social present the annual Catherine Silverstone lecture at QMUL this evening. To find hope amid all this was a gift.

Lovely funded PhD project over at RNCM www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Did I fall down another woman composer rabbit hole? Err... obviously. This time a pianist composer who focused on teaching, but lots more still to be uncovered about her. sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/29/f...

📢 Calling all history ECRS! Myself & Anna McEwan are organising a resource sharing and podcast production workshop this September at @uofglasgow.bsky.social funded by @royalhistsoc.org & supported by the @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social . Check out the CfP for details 🔽

Another woman composer, the extremely poorly known Harriet Maitland Young. Not much to be found, but what there is opens some fascinating questions, and if anyone's headed to the BL soon there's plenty of sheet music to be found #womeninmusic sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/25/f...

My island of strangers: a poem by Michael Rosen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was reminded of this great speech earlier today, Charlie Chaplin's words as well as delivery 'We want to live by one another's happiness, not one another's misery' www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

Wrote a piece about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, her dad, and the @royalalberthall.bsky.social -- sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/12/a...

A lot has been said about Labour's hardening of immigration rules & dehumanising rhetoric, but nobody is sharing the opinions of migrant workers. That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

If you aren't already a regular correspondent, and even if you are, write to your MP today (especially if they are a Labour MP). Make sure you put your address in and make it clear you're a constituent. www.writetothem.com

You can have one return in a time machine to see Gershwin premiere Rhapsody in Blue OR to see Bernstein conduct it live. The only solution in this house to the problem is bribe the time machine operator to let you pick up Gershwin afterwards, take him to Bernstein.... problem solved.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Stravinsky and Billy Rose about his Broadway revue: Rose telegraphs S: "YOUR MUSIC GREAT SUCCESS STOP COULD BE SENSATIONAL SUCCESS IF YOU WOULD AUTHORISE ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT RETOUCH ORCHESTRATION STOP BENNETT ORCHESTRATES EVEN THE WORKS OF COLE PORTER." S replies: "SATISFIED WITH GREAT SUCCESS.

I have a chapter in this I'm very proud of, about bisexual fan communities relationship to Hamilton, and the work that queer fan communities do to see themselves in the room where it happens 💙💜🩷