Kate Arnold
@dulcimerkate.bsky.social
Musician/Composer/Electro-medievalist.
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Pinned
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
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Go round the outside.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Go round the outside.
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Nothing quite like the intricacies of a carpet page
Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social
Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Nothing quite like the intricacies of a carpet page
Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social
Lichfield Cathedral, MS Lich 01; St. Chad Gospels; c.730 CE; p.220 @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social
I bumped into Bob Geldof on a zebra crossing. A few months later it happened again (also Bob Geldof, same crossing).
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I bumped into Bob Geldof on a zebra crossing. A few months later it happened again (also Bob Geldof, same crossing).
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TGV - T.G.V. Partie 2 (Instrumental) [France, Electronic/Synth-pop] (1981)
https://redd.it/b3d3oi
https://youtu.be/eSOc52DgSuM
https://redd.it/b3d3oi
https://youtu.be/eSOc52DgSuM
TGV - T.G.V. Partie 2 (Instrumental) [France, Electronic/Synth-pop] (1981)
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
TGV - T.G.V. Partie 2 (Instrumental) [France, Electronic/Synth-pop] (1981)
https://redd.it/b3d3oi
https://youtu.be/eSOc52DgSuM
https://redd.it/b3d3oi
https://youtu.be/eSOc52DgSuM
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Today is Décadi the 10th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate the flail.#JacobinDay
More information on the flail
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate the flail.#JacobinDay
More information on the flail
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Décadi the 10th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate the flail.#JacobinDay
More information on the flail
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate the flail.#JacobinDay
More information on the flail
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Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday!
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thanks so much to the 5 of you that booked places over the holiday season for the Christmas Lecture... See you on Tuesday!
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
If anyone else wants to join us, you can sign up here...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Happy First Day of Christmas, and may we all find the Nexus.
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy First Day of Christmas, and may we all find the Nexus.
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Learn how women shaped and performed music in medieval Europe—sign up now! 🕯️🎶 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/wome... #MedievalWomen #Music
A Voice of Her Own: Women’s Contributions to Medieval Music
Explore women’s important yet overlooked roles in medieval music as composers, performers, patrons, and muses. This course brings their stories to life through convent music, courtly traditions, and…
medievalstudies.thinkific.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Learn how women shaped and performed music in medieval Europe—sign up now! 🕯️🎶 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/wome... #MedievalWomen #Music
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Always very pleased to see this idea spreading. I like the underlying premise that a relationship with music is a practice of devotion to one another, which is exactly the kind of weaponry we need in the war that's being waged on our spirit
for your holiday reading pleasure:
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Always very pleased to see this idea spreading. I like the underlying premise that a relationship with music is a practice of devotion to one another, which is exactly the kind of weaponry we need in the war that's being waged on our spirit
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He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Green Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
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Birmingham Town Hall (UK). New! Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853.
#novella #fiction #literature #English
#novella #fiction #literature #English
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Birmingham Town Hall (UK). New! Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens' first public reading of A Christmas Carol in 1853.
#novella #fiction #literature #English
#novella #fiction #literature #English
Oh.
Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Oh.
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18
‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18
‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Trafalgar Square’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on!
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on!
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
First non-PhD-related reading in a while. It's fascinating and contains a lot more detail than you might ever need to know about croissants and croissant-adjacent topics. But that's A GOOD THING.
#croissants
#croissants
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
First non-PhD-related reading in a while. It's fascinating and contains a lot more detail than you might ever need to know about croissants and croissant-adjacent topics. But that's A GOOD THING.
#croissants
#croissants
Today, being St Lucy's Day and the Start of the Solar Weirdness, is the first day I can put my decorations up.
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today, being St Lucy's Day and the Start of the Solar Weirdness, is the first day I can put my decorations up.
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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This will be good, please do share!
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This will be good, please do share!
This will be good, please do share!
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This will be good, please do share!
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Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV)
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV)
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
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Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
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this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."