Primary School Teachers! Are you looking for fun resources for teaching the Tudors? Check out this 6-week programme 'Singing the Tudors'. Lessons plans, slides, singing videos, etc. Free download: northumbriaknowledgebank.flintbox.com/technologies... #primaryedusky #music #earlymodern #singing

Med Ren starts today! If you're new to the conference do come and say hi and look out for Caro's pubtrip this evening.

Don't forget to register this week!

We are pleased to announce the continuation of 2 awards. The @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social award for the Best Poster Presentation at MedRen2025 And the Award in Memory of Lenka Hlávková for the most promising paper by an PGR/ECR More information can be found here: www.medren2025.co.uk/awards

For the full list of Late Show events visit: thelateshows.org.uk/2025 #TheLateShows2025 #TheLateshows #NorthumbriaUni #NewcastleGateshead #CultureNight

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows on Saturday. Come along and help me write a 'Newcastle Late Show' catch (I can also teach you a Tudor drinking song!). Details: thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

My first book Improvising Otherwise: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Improvisation in Early Modern Culture is out now with @openbookpublish.bsky.social 🌺 it's open access and free to read and download here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #newbook #improvisation #earlymodern #feminist

📣 Calling all altos, tenors and basses aged 11-18! ✨ On Sat 28th June we will host our first ever day for young singers aged 11-18. This is aimed at parish church choir choristers, and other young singers with experience looking to gain new ensemble and leadership skills. 🧵

Starting a new chapter on religious rounds today. What new recent lit on domestic devotion/lay pietyy in 16th/early 17th C Britain should I not miss? #earlymodern

We're pleased to be able to publish the provisional conference schedule! More information on registration will be availble next week. www.medren2025.co.uk/conference-p...

Fun day out singing rounds and catches in the long gallery at Kiplin Hall with Michael, Liza and Eimear, and visitors. Songs included some found at the hall itself #earlymodern #musicology @britishacademy.bsky.social

In North East UK and making plans for May bank holiday weekend? Why not visit Kiplin Hall and join in with singing some fun Jacobean rounds? All age/ family friendly 15-minute drop-in workshops 11am-2pm on 3 May. All voices welcome! kiplinhall.co.uk/events/pop-u... #earlymodern #singing #history

Do you have a UK music degree? Would you be willing to share your career story, whether in or outside of music? A student intern is building a website to highlight where music degrees can lead. Please do get in touch if you could contribute, or share with anyone you know. Many thanks! #musicology

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows in May this year. What a fab programme they've put together. If you're nearby do come and visit our stop (no. 67) on the culture crawl 'Sound Travels' for music-making, singing, craft and exciting new research: thelateshows.org.uk/2025

Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....

At #RSA2025 and looking for a fun morning session? Try our workshop on ubiquitous music-making in #earlymodern England. No musical experience necessary. Ballads, rounds, psalms, theatre songs, instrumental variations...

This article on the representation of angels on the early modern stage looks fascinating. Can't wait to read!

Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology

I'm one of the organisers of the Gilbert White and his Contexts conference this June, celebrating the author of the Natural History of Selborne. We've got some great keynote speakers, outings, and many brilliant papers. Proposal submission is open online until 4 April. www.gilbertwhite.org.uk

Registration is now open for 'Everyday Music Scenes: Pubs, Clubs and ‘Stutes', RMA Study Day, Newcastle University. 14th-15th April 2025 www.rma.ac.uk/2025/03/10/r...

Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are: The jolly old dog as he lay in his den. Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall? A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall Any ideas #earlymodern?

Welcome to BlueSky! Sounds like a great project- can't wait to hear what you find.

Fascinating discoveries here!

With a new account, it is the perfect time to shamelessly plug the fact that we are recuriting new members to join our wonderful Commitee! Read below to find out more and apply using the link here: forms.gle/YopXm3A55Ac7...

a slightly unorthodox celebration of the feast of St Anthony Abbot yesterday, marked by the submission of my DPhil! many thanks to all those who have given advice and listened to me bang on about the Chapel Royal!

Seeking help from #earlymodern literary scholars: I'm compiling a list of representations of/ references to singing rounds, catches, canons, or 'x parts in one' in plays from c.1550-1650 (with or without extant lyrics) beyond the well-known example like Twelfth Night. Grateful for any leads. Thanks!

CfP Medieval and Renaissance Music Conf 2025, 30 June- 4 July at Northumbria, Newcastle & Durham. All topics welcome, but themes incl. borders, migration, ideas of north, Gibbons, Palestrina, materiality, editing, popular trads. Deadline 31 Jan. www.medren2025.co.uk/cfp #earlymodern #musicology

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself. #skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/U4CEeWN

Fascinating opportunity here for a funded PhD position for UK/home student with interests in organology, music pedagogy, musical collection, global musicology... #musicology

I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#

This is beautiful.

Delighted that my article on music at the Crichton Royal Institution during the mid-19th century is now published and open access: academic.oup.com/ml/advance-a...

Just got a note from OUP that this has been sent to the printer. Won't be long now! I'll have more when it actually appears.

This is a fine article on the difficulties of archival digitization. Worth adding, that high quality text transcription also requires considerable time, investment and quality control. #Archives

Very proud of this partnership! And what excellent mentoring scheme this is. Exciting future for the discipline which we’re building together.

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Hello new followers! I thought I should post a little introduction. Follow me mostly for music (early, singing, bells), history (early modern) and cats

Upcoming NABMSA panel on Publishing in British Music Studies. 6 December 11am US Central /5pm UK. Free. Register here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/nabm... #musicology

The Walters Art Museum's recent acquisitions include Willem van Herp's 'Tavern Owner with Two Members of Staff and a Client' (1650s) showing 'a remarkably early European depiction of a Black businesswoman'. #earlymodern www.codart.nl/acquisitions...

Also, now there’s more of us on here: this is why we keep underscoring the value of #Medieval & #EarlyModern studies. #Skystorians

Music historians, I think we’re still finding our way here but please comment and I’ll add you. go.bsky.app/T6tNioi

Why sing catches today? A new blog post on my recent catch-singing workshops with adults with experience of mental health challenges (in partnership with ConvergeNorthumbria): hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/singafterme/... Check our their newly composed Newcastle Catch! #earlymodern #musicology

We are excited to welcome Distinguished Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks in a virtual talk with Q &A about her new book, Women and the Reformations: A Global History (Yale, 2024). Join us! R/T! 13 NOVEMBER 2024 16:00-17:15 GMT, ONLINE HTTPS://BIT.LY/WIESNER-HANKSCREMS

The website for my @britishacademy.bsky.social project 'Sing You Now After Me: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain c1550-1650' is live. For info about the research and resources for community/school singing, head to: hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/singafterme/ #earlymodern #sing #musicology

Having so much fun preparing for the Converge Catch Club, part of my @britishacademy.bsky.social MidCareer Fellowship on Catch-Singing & Community in Early Modern Britain. I took some informal videos in our rehearsals: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Grab some friends and have a sing! #earlymodern #sing

My last tribute to the Byrd 400 anniversary: a little piece on Tudor composer William Byrd's cameo appearances in jestbooks in Early Performance and Research #earlymodern #earlymusic #musicology

Slow off the mark here but happy to finally get my hands on these @ka-butler.bsky.social

This was so much fun! Great to welcome such keen young singers and Stile to Northumbria.