**ELECTRO-MEDIEVAL ALERT!** I thought some of you might like to hear a snippet of what I've been up to for the last four years, so this Bandcamp Friday (October 3rd) I will make one of the Old French songs available on katearnolduk.bandcamp.com for a limited time only. Watch this space for the link.

PhD thesis submitted. Here is my historically inaccurate celebratory music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXi...

I didn't know about this, and I really feel I should have done.

Wonderful stuff.

"JS Bach had twenty kids. Whenever the music stopped, Mrs. Bach's blood ran cold".

PhD thesis submitted. Here is my historically inaccurate celebratory music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXi...

A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city... heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...

'List three things you can talk about for three hours with no prep.' 1. Medieval things (one would hope) 2. Kedgeree 3. 'One Hundred Years' by the Cure. And if after all this you didn't want to kill me I'd throw in the etymology of the word 'lozenge' for free.

Queues of people in The Printer Room ten minutes before the deadline, all shouting 'Come on!' at each other while the person at the front shouts the same at The Printer. Then we all forget to retrieve our floppy disks from The Computer Room.

Important and timely report, co-authored by a brilliant PhD supervisor !

Stumbled across this in another thread. Kind of makes the point I was wiffling about recently with the 'most of my old stuff is new to most people' - this was posted 3 or 4 years ago - I've just listened to if for the first time and it's great. Worth a listen, IMHO....

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️ Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

Can they bring back humans?

It might be a good idea to think about what we would do differently right now if someone from the future appeared and told us the internet turned out to be a temporary phase. And then perhaps we should do that anyway.

🔥 ANNONCE 🔥 Le samedi 4 octobre à 19h aura lieu au Château de Vincennes un enregistrement en public du #podcast sur l'encens au Moyen Âge, avec comme invitée Aude Chevalier Barbier. ➡ Réservation et infos sur le site du château : www.chateau-de-vincennes.fr/agenda/podca...

I can see that people have sent me direct messages on here but sadly I can't access them as BlueSky's age verification thingy doesn't like me. If you are one of those people, please try emailing [email protected] I am an adult, honest.

Me, targeting extraneous adjectives in my PhD thesis to get it below the maximum word count. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRQ...

I can't go, but you should!

If you've never heard any Arvo Pärt may I take the opportunity of his 90th birthday to recommend that you do so? NB: not background music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLvL...

Thought I'd check just in case, and anyway it's always good to see what the other Kate Arnolds are up to. Turns out OpenAI has not been trained on 'Pop and the Palastinalied' but the Kate Arnold who studies monkeys should definitely look into this.

Richard the Lionheart was born #OnThisDay in AD 1157 🦁 Famous for crusading, his time away from England had a significant impact on the economy. Ice cores from Switzerland found pollution from English mines dropped drastically during the 3rd Crusade. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Happy #StarTrekDay to all who celebrate.

I love the DLR and this is a great photo.

I would if I could, but maybe you can?

Oh wow! This is an incredible place.

The Sky Above You, September 2025 theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/02/t...

I've spent so much time in the parish of St Giles by Denmark Street over the years, I thought he was the patron saint of guitar shops.

I was wondering where I left it. Interesting: old cathedral turned into bell foundry for new cathedral? 'New' meaning 11th century, of course.

Splendid paintings of guitar fx pedals here!

Gary Numan watching a seagull fly away with his paper #totp

Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.

To celebrate Elizabeth Fraser's birthday, let's play "How many of these are Cocteau Twins songs and how many are Farrow & Ball paint colours?" Mizzle Elephant's Breath Cico Buff Dimpse Setting Plaster Vardo Fluffy Tufts Calamine Cicely Hazel Orange Appled Tallow Lazy Calm Melonella Rococo Calluna

I'd love to do this! Can't count the number if times I've used the Internet Archive during my PhD.

The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Heather in bloom.

You can say whatever about history, really, there is barely anything written, just bear tapestries, descriptions of mud, people couldn’t write much back then it all being so dark and gray and then being illiterate and ignorant and swords there were swords but mostly just bears and mud and

Today is Primidi the 11th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate watermelon.#JacobinDay More information on watermelon

AI is not 'inevitable' and it is not 'The Future' of Everything. Someone is massively invested in it or they wouldn't be pushing it so much that we feel like we don't have a choice. Resist!

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Wow. Amazing work! Worth zooming in on it. It's a bit like one of those 'spot the impending disaster' pictures given to schoolkids in the 1970s/80s by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

I don't currently have access to BBC TV so I'll be looking forward to reading my colleagues' reviews/reports/general despair on here tomorrow. #KingAndConqueror #MedievalSky

24 hours to go for our crowdfunding campaign! Our final instalment in the MiniMotet series, this one is all about living together in peace and harmony, and burning all your vanities #earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony youtu.be/uyCejiKD1sE

Al Massrieen (المصريين) - Men Awel Deqiqa (من أول دقيقة) [Egypt Funk] (ca.1978) https://redd.it/85k3mc https://youtu.be/2flzT9GXdh4

A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2... #earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad

This is a lovely read - an obit by @urbandirt.bsky.social of Sen Genshitsu, grandmaster of the tea ceremony who survived his posting to a suicide attack unit in the air force in WWII and has died at age 105 www.ft.com/content/b961...

Really worth watching if you've ever wondered things like 'how do we know it sounded like that?' (Spoiler alert: we don't.)

More actual building of 13th-century castles please.

The PETER GABRIEL album "Live At WOMAD 1982" was released two weeks ago. We have reviewed the album and compared his performance with bootlegs and later versions. Read it here: t.ly/VHW-r @itspetergabriel.bsky.social

I am always on the lookout for opportunities to work Meades' phrase 'Parnassian blingsteads' into general conversation. Yes, those opportunities are few, but I still consider it a worthy goal.