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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton)

@lisacolton.bsky.social

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Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 3h

Though the liner notes are very annoying, the playing is fabulous.

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 5h

New washing up backing track

CD of Scarlatti sonatas played by Jean Rondeau

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 7d

Benefits of home working - daughter has made me a Christmas-coloured omelet for lunch.

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 7d

Benefits of home working - daughter has made me a Christmas-coloured omelet for lunch.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 7d

It wasn't just monks who liked their eels...nuns did, too!

In the 1280s the nuns of Romsey Abbey in Hampshire rented lands in the village of Welles to Nicholas de Barbeflete for some customary labor, 57s., 200 herrings, & 300 eels per year.

Can't let the monks have all the fun!
🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval art showing 10 nuns, sitting in ornate chairs in two rows. They are all holding books, and appear to be singing. The chairs are connected like fancy pews. They're golden, with scrollwork and carvings all over them. For all that they're richly adorned, they don't look comfortable. You would object if these were your seats on your next plane flight.

Many of the nuns have their mouths open, which is why I think they're singing. BUT...they also look like maybe somebody slipped some hardcore porn into the leaves of their hymnals. Maybe a photo montage of the local bishop earning his next confession. Several of them look shook. A few look...interested.

What makes this idea really funny is that the nun on the upper right is obviously bored out of her mind. Like...this is really old hat for her. Like she looked at the pictures of the bishop and went, "Eh. I've seen bigger." And now she's thinking about umbrellas or something.

Meme text reads:
"An eel habit
like nun other"

Reposted by Frederik Dhondt, Magda Teter, Lisa Colton

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 7d

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

A man is sitting at a desk, writing a book with a quill. He is not looking at the page. A godly book, illuminated, is also present in the copperplate print of 1716. The godly message of the flying book is in German and from the Bible: Im Anfang war das Wort Joh:1 v:1". A light beam from the holy book to the yet blank page can also be seen with the words inscribed: „Dein Wort ist ein Licht auf meinem Wege Ps. 119 v. 105“. So, basically, god is the textual inspiration of the author's work. It looks like he is waiting an artificial hallucination in 1716. The source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/17512/mirador

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 8d

NEWS | Early Music finds a new home in The Peak District

🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/early-music-...

@buxtonfestival.bsky.social

News | Early Music finds a new home in the Peak District | Continuo Connect

Your guide to early music: concerts, festivals, articles, interviews, and artist profiles. Discover renaissance, baroque, classical and more.

go.continuoconnect.com

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 8d

Two more days until Christmas break.

Fluffy creature popping its head out of a hole to have a look around.

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you for joining in the singing! 10/10!

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Keith Lilley, Adrian Vickers , and 4 more Lesley A. Hall, Keith Lilley, Adrian Vickers, Tim Hitchcock, Michael H. Whitworth, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Lisa Colton

Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11d

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 11d

This is such a lovely image, and perfect illustration for tomorrow’s team writing day.

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 11d

Scribe at work wearing rather dainty red shoes

MS Ff.1.27; f.315 @camdiglib.bsky.social

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 11d

Scribe at work wearing rather dainty red shoes

MS Ff.1.27; f.315 @camdiglib.bsky.social

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 16d

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16d

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16d

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 17d

We have a fully funded PhD (+ research expenses) in Ethnomusicology going in @ucddublin.bsky.social supervised by my new colleague, Abigail Lindo.

Abigail is looking to supervise in a host of exciting & pertinant areas. Full details below:

www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

Ad Astra PhD Scholarship Opportunity - UCD School of Music

www.ucd.ie

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Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 20d

My next book has a presence on the Boydell & Brewer website. 'Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880: Sounding "Polish"'. Available Spring 2026!

boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...

Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880

Examines music's role in political and cultural images of Poland during a period in which Poland regained independence, suffered cruelly in warfare, was a member of the Soviet bloc, then overthrew com...

boydellandbrewer.com

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Pauline Stafford, Lisa Colton

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21d

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."

Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England

Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

bit.ly

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 22d

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

www.history.ac.uk

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 23d

You can apply at any stage in your career but you must:
• Be aged 18+ at the time of applying
• Be a woman (cis or trans) or gender-diverse person
• Be based in Yorks and the Humber 🧵3/4
Find out more and apply by 11 January here: yorkshiresoundwomen.com/yswn-rewired...

YSWN Rewired: Call for music and sound creators · Yorkshire Sound Women Network

yorkshiresoundwomen.com

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 23d

📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
🧵1/4

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 27d

There is something that looks like flu in my house, and I don’t want it!

a woman wearing a blue and white face mask is standing in front of a table that says tayomaki on it

Alt: a woman wearing a blue and white face mask is standing in front of a table that says tayomaki on it

media.tenor.com

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Bristol PGR Medieval Conference 2025 @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social · 28d

We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance!

All proposals to be sent to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk by 17:00 on Friday 9th January.

#medievalsky #skystorians

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 29d

A Christmas single by @liverpooluni.bsky.social alumnus, and a chance to support the Walton Centre for Christmas. @sotauol.bsky.social alumni.liv.ac.uk/news/stories...

Stories - Alumni - University of Liverpool

alumni.liv.ac.uk

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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @oxmgc.bsky.social · 29d

The OMGC committee is delighted to announce this year’s Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate students on the theme ‘Sounds and Silence.’

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to oxgradconf@gmail.com by 8 December 2025.

Details Below

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hoping tomorrow brings fewer things at once.

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Boat trip down the Thames- lots of sights but quieter.

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Dr Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton.bsky.social · Nov 18

Calling all postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers – in ALL ARTS & HUMANITIES SUBJECTS and from ANYWHERE in the world – this is your chance to spend a month in London in pursuit of your research: robertandersontrust.org/apply/