Spotted: IHR Applied History Fellowships t.co/XgA4fzRb5w

Spotted: Notes and Records biennial history of science Essay Award t.co/H7cFqlgPv8

Spotted: Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Pleased that a new issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, which I co-edit with @rosemarygolding.bsky.social, has just been published. It's a themed issue on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #musicology

spotted: funding for writing www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Art as refuge conference 19-20 September: such an important topic and a fabulous programme outsidein.org.uk/art-as-refug...

cfp for this fascinating online event Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900, 5 December, deadline 6 October. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Spotted for PhD students: Skills training at the London archives, and music/ sound at the BL. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skills-tra... events.bl.uk/events/docto...

Tunnock Prize: essay competition for postgraduate students and ECRs focussed on the use and interpretation of Scottish archives both within Scotland and further afield. deadline 31 October scottishrecordsassociation.org/tunnock-prize/

Great to see students signing up for our MA in Music, offered part-time over two years. We cover a wide range of music studies, and you can choose your specialism throughout. No prior formal music study required. Deadline 14 August www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

I enjoyed three days of wonderful papers, presentations and performances as part of the NABMSA online symposium nabmsa.org/2025-online-... Now back to work and gearing up for MNCB in York

Great to see students signing up for our MA in Music, offered part-time over two years. We cover a wide range of music studies, and you can choose your specialism throughout. No prior formal music study required. Deadline 14 August www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Cfp "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world" Université Paris Nanterre March 19th-21st, 2026: whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap... Deadline for abstracts September 1st, 2025. [email protected]

Registration is now open for the NABMSA symposium 10-12 July, Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies. We have a great set of papers and some exciting keynotes to look forward to. www.nabmsaconferences.org

Looking forward to this conference next week - programme now available, online and in London. Creativity, Creative Arts and Neurodivergence fass.open.ac.uk/research/gro...

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Delighted that our latest issue of Nineteenth Century Music Review is now available, with all research articles open access @CambridgeUP www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to colleagues in English, who have published exciting work on the history of bibliotherapy - access the podcast (from 11:30) podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d... and book www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

I was privileged to lead development of our distance-learning, part-time, international MA in Music, which has been really successful this year. We're now open for registration for September starts and look forward to welcoming our next cohort of students www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to: - teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects - students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

Call for chapters: Health, Wellbeing and the Arts in the Nineteenth Century. Particularly chapters on music, dance and visual/ material arts, as well as topics from beyond Europe. Please send abstracts, expressions of interest, or queries to [email protected] by Friday 2 May.

An interesting conference on neurodivergence and the arts which I am co-hosting with colleagues at @openuniversity.bsky.social and @creativeinteract.bsky.social now open for registration fass.open.ac.uk/research/gro...

This looks like a super online event on the history and curation of art made in psychiatric hospitals, from the European Outsider Art Association and @outsidein_uk outsidein.org.uk/news/eoa-dig...

#Archives30 month is celebrating #SoundandVision archives today. A great opportunity to share some of my work on music in 19th-century asylums. Most recently the amazing Crichton archives academic.oup.com/ml/advance-a...

Reminder that the cfp for our online symposium on 'Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies' (10-12 July) closes on 28 April. nabmsa.org/2025-online-...

This contains two sets of themed essays on opera, many of which are available open access. #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #Musicology

Delighted to have published our first issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review @mvclarke.bsky.social @oumusic.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

British music scholars: NABMSA Linda Shaver-Gleason awards deadline is 4 April nabmsa.org/linda-shaver...

Looking forward to this day - a great selection of topics.

Dream job with dream team on a really cool project 👇

A brief reflection on women, music and nineteenth-century asylums, for women's history month musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com

Today’s deadline day! Get your abstracts in to join us in beautiful Bath in July for the long 18thc PGR/ECR @bsecs.bsky.social conference on Façades! (all interpretations welcome!) Any Qs get in touch at [email protected]. Details in post below ⬇️ #skystorians

Survey on the possibility of an Arts Health Wellbeing MA for Scotland: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/robertgord...

Some updates on our current projects musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/h...

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference! ⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025 🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa... 🗃️

I've just been made aware of this wonderful resource of digitised letters relating to 19th-century science, building on the Darwin correspondence project and hosted by Cambridge epsilon.ac.uk

An amazing day with the Hoxton Creative Health Network thinking all about writing a manifesto ✍️ Having a manifesto can be a really useful tool for communicating your aims, values and mission.

Get ready for Creativity and Wellbeing Week- find out what's in store for this year and how you can take part 💙 Join us on Mar 10 to know more! Book your ticket here: bit.ly/Gettingready... 📷 by Michael Aiden Photography

Celebrating Valentine’s Day in 1840s Scotland musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/2024/02/13/v...

Great to see this cfp out... Letters and Literature 1500-2025, online conference 5-7 November, deadline 30 July digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/

Really not far to go now. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

cfp First Biannual Conference of the “International Association of Medical Museums and Collections”, 10-13 September 2025, Ingolstadt, deadline 28/2 www.dmm-ingolstadt.de/fileadmin/do...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This amazing woman’s profile has been erased from the NASA website following US government orders. Let’s unerase her! web.archive.org/web/20231206...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Really excited to share this collection of freely accessible articles from colleagues working across Health, Wellbeing and the Arts at the Open University: www.open.edu/openlearn/he...

Musings on ethics, asylum research, mental health history and telling stories musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com