Kate Bennett
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'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.
This, friends, is your new diary.
August 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This, friends, is your new diary.
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The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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Finally saw this in person earlier this week at the NPG in London: a figure of EIC governor Joseph Collet (ca. 1716), made by the Chinese sculptor 'Amoy Chinqua' from unfired clay on bamboo. Collet sent it home to England to his daughters as an 'image of himself'. #skystorians #earlymodern
August 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Finally saw this in person earlier this week at the NPG in London: a figure of EIC governor Joseph Collet (ca. 1716), made by the Chinese sculptor 'Amoy Chinqua' from unfired clay on bamboo. Collet sent it home to England to his daughters as an 'image of himself'. #skystorians #earlymodern
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‘It was in itself a perverse choice for an artist in the 1960s to take up flower painting, so far out of fashion as to be invisible from the modernist avant-garde.’
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill · At the Driehaus Museum: Tulips, Fritillaries and Auriculas
Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
‘It was in itself a perverse choice for an artist in the 1960s to take up flower painting, so far out of fashion as to be invisible from the modernist avant-garde.’
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Popped into Magdalen library today and there was the Nuremberg Chronicle, surrounded by admirers. It’s pretty special. Here is a locust plague enjoying their moment in the sun…
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Popped into Magdalen library today and there was the Nuremberg Chronicle, surrounded by admirers. It’s pretty special. Here is a locust plague enjoying their moment in the sun…
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Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position.
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
June 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position.
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
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Alexander Pope died #OTD in 1744.
Heroes and Kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet sleep;
Who never flatter’d folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Heroes and Kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet sleep;
Who never flatter’d folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
May 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Alexander Pope died #OTD in 1744.
Heroes and Kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet sleep;
Who never flatter’d folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Heroes and Kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet sleep;
Who never flatter’d folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
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Alexander Pope was born #OTD in 1688 (OS). No poet has ever surpassed his ability to craft a line. To Lord Byron, Pope was ‘the most faultless of poets’. Eliot: ‘Unless we are able to enjoy the work of Pope, we cannot arrive at a full understanding of English poetry.’
May 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Alexander Pope was born #OTD in 1688 (OS). No poet has ever surpassed his ability to craft a line. To Lord Byron, Pope was ‘the most faultless of poets’. Eliot: ‘Unless we are able to enjoy the work of Pope, we cannot arrive at a full understanding of English poetry.’
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Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799.
Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum
Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum
May 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799.
Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum
Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum
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‘From the fifth-century legend of a mysterious peach blossom valley, the origin of the Western notion of ShangriLa, they began to conceive the idea of a treasure house hidden among mountains.’
Rosemary Hill visits the Miho Museum:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill visits the Miho Museum:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill · At the Miho Museum: Habits of Seeing
A visit to the Miho Museum has none of the razzmatazz of the Met or the Louvre. There are no queues or crowds. From the...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
‘From the fifth-century legend of a mysterious peach blossom valley, the origin of the Western notion of ShangriLa, they began to conceive the idea of a treasure house hidden among mountains.’
Rosemary Hill visits the Miho Museum:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill visits the Miho Museum:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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May 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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‘Here are the genial announcers saying “bitch” over and over: obedience bitch, limit bitch, postgraduate bitch, this magnificent young bitch from Venice, this famous bitch from America.’
Rosa Lyster goes to Crufts:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosa Lyster goes to Crufts:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosa Lyster · At Crufts
Here, in an arena where the Sugababes recently performed, is a crowd bursting into applause as a spaniel steadfastly...
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May 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
‘Here are the genial announcers saying “bitch” over and over: obedience bitch, limit bitch, postgraduate bitch, this magnificent young bitch from Venice, this famous bitch from America.’
Rosa Lyster goes to Crufts:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosa Lyster goes to Crufts:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A manuscript thread for birders in particular! Last year I wrote a post showcasing all the beautiful illuminated #birds in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodl.264, but there were many I couldn't identify. Maybe a group effort can help fill the gaps? 🧵
majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus
majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus
Dawn Chorus
Medieval birds to gladden the heart
majnouna.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A manuscript thread for birders in particular! Last year I wrote a post showcasing all the beautiful illuminated #birds in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodl.264, but there were many I couldn't identify. Maybe a group effort can help fill the gaps? 🧵
majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus
majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus
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Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards:
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
May 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards:
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.
- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.
- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.
- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
In seventeenth century Oxford, “the Boyes doe blow Cowshorns and hollow Canes all night; and on May-day the young maids of every parish carry about their parish Garlands of Flowers, which afterwards they hang up in their Churches.” Happy May Day!
May 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In seventeenth century Oxford, “the Boyes doe blow Cowshorns and hollow Canes all night; and on May-day the young maids of every parish carry about their parish Garlands of Flowers, which afterwards they hang up in their Churches.” Happy May Day!
I really wouldn’t advise it
April 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I really wouldn’t advise it
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Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
April 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...