Prof Kate Loder
@kghist.bsky.social
STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: especially gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British women composers
#womencomposers
Long-term housebound with v. severe long covid
#longcovid
Pinned
Prof Kate Loder
@kghist.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Music by Black Composers - Home Page
Music by Black Composers aims to increase diversity in the world of classical music, and inspire Black students to pursue instrumental training.
musicbyblackcomposers.org
1/ I’ve been compiling e-resources for exploring black & ethnically diverse composers.
Here’s a thread of ones I’ve found useful (from my inexpert perspective).
#Diversity
#Equality
#Inclusion
This is the first one:
musicbyblackcomposers.org
It specifies the gender of each composer.
Here’s a thread of ones I’ve found useful (from my inexpert perspective).
#Diversity
#Equality
#Inclusion
This is the first one:
musicbyblackcomposers.org
It specifies the gender of each composer.
This is happening tonight, Hampton, London.
The school is doing such a great job of introducing its students to women composers.
@endsexisminschools.bsky.social
#womencomposers
The school is doing such a great job of introducing its students to women composers.
@endsexisminschools.bsky.social
#womencomposers
I’m delighted to share details of Unsilenced once again this year—our concert celebrating works by women composers at Hampton School for Boys. This year is especially exciting as it marks the 5th year of Unsilenced 🎉
📍 Hammond Theatre
🗓 Thursday 12 February
⏰ 7.00pm
🎟 Free entry
📍 Hammond Theatre
🗓 Thursday 12 February
⏰ 7.00pm
🎟 Free entry
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is happening tonight, Hampton, London.
The school is doing such a great job of introducing its students to women composers.
@endsexisminschools.bsky.social
#womencomposers
The school is doing such a great job of introducing its students to women composers.
@endsexisminschools.bsky.social
#womencomposers
Finding so many treasures in the record collection of my wonderful father-in-law who died recently, aged 90.
Lovely to find that on this recording of Holst conducting The Planets, his daughter, Imogen Holst, wrote the sleeve notes. She was also a composer.
Lovely to find that on this recording of Holst conducting The Planets, his daughter, Imogen Holst, wrote the sleeve notes. She was also a composer.
February 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Finding so many treasures in the record collection of my wonderful father-in-law who died recently, aged 90.
Lovely to find that on this recording of Holst conducting The Planets, his daughter, Imogen Holst, wrote the sleeve notes. She was also a composer.
Lovely to find that on this recording of Holst conducting The Planets, his daughter, Imogen Holst, wrote the sleeve notes. She was also a composer.
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
Does anyone have advice for buying a new record player please?
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Does anyone have advice for buying a new record player please?
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
Does anyone have advice for buying a new record player please?
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Does anyone have advice for buying a new record player please?
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
I’m wondering what would be the least worst option for under £300?
I’ve inherited a collection of classical music LPS, mostly from the 1950s and 60s, but some quite a bit earlier ❤️🎶
🙏
#vinyl
#classicalmusic
This link provides a super easy way to contact your MP to demand humanitarian agencies are allowed to work in Gaza.
All it takes is a few clicks.
Please repost
www.redlineforgaza.org.uk
All it takes is a few clicks.
Please repost
www.redlineforgaza.org.uk
Red Line for Gaza
www.redlineforgaza.org.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM
This link provides a super easy way to contact your MP to demand humanitarian agencies are allowed to work in Gaza.
All it takes is a few clicks.
Please repost
www.redlineforgaza.org.uk
All it takes is a few clicks.
Please repost
www.redlineforgaza.org.uk
Thanks to @carlharnryd.bsky.social for this post on Emilie Mayer’s extraordinary piano trio (pubd 1861).
It is brilliant!
youtu.be/9glN4ZvVr8o?...
#womencomposers
#classicalmusic
#emiliemayer
#chambermusic
It is brilliant!
youtu.be/9glN4ZvVr8o?...
#womencomposers
#classicalmusic
#emiliemayer
#chambermusic
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Thanks to @carlharnryd.bsky.social for this post on Emilie Mayer’s extraordinary piano trio (pubd 1861).
It is brilliant!
youtu.be/9glN4ZvVr8o?...
#womencomposers
#classicalmusic
#emiliemayer
#chambermusic
It is brilliant!
youtu.be/9glN4ZvVr8o?...
#womencomposers
#classicalmusic
#emiliemayer
#chambermusic
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
Mary Ellen Pleasant, American civil rights pioneer, entrepreneur. The “Mother of Civil Rights in California”; one of the wealthiest & most powerful people in California. Key role in major #civilrights court cases; California black rights activist #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #woc #PolSky
February 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Mary Ellen Pleasant, American civil rights pioneer, entrepreneur. The “Mother of Civil Rights in California”; one of the wealthiest & most powerful people in California. Key role in major #civilrights court cases; California black rights activist #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #woc #PolSky
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.
January 29, 2026 at 10:18 PM
From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
1/ Julie Hayden (c. 1857 – August 21, 1874), sometimes Julia Hayden, was an American seventeen-year-old Black school teacher murdered by members of the White Man's League within days of starting a teaching position at a school for Black children in Tennessee. #WomanToday
January 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
1/ Julie Hayden (c. 1857 – August 21, 1874), sometimes Julia Hayden, was an American seventeen-year-old Black school teacher murdered by members of the White Man's League within days of starting a teaching position at a school for Black children in Tennessee. #WomanToday
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Professor types: how did we not know this before?!
Apparently history profs are eligible to make nominations.
You know what to do, folks: MOAR nominations for the city and people of Minneapolis, and the state and the people of Minnesota!
#skystorians
You know what to do, folks: MOAR nominations for the city and people of Minneapolis, and the state and the people of Minnesota!
#skystorians
As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
January 29, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Professor types: how did we not know this before?!
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 PM
In 1999 (!) the Home Office’s guide for good working practices:
‘a transsexual employee [the term then used for transgender people] should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present’.
So simple isn’t it
‘a transsexual employee [the term then used for transgender people] should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present’.
So simple isn’t it
I’ve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but I’ve only just come across it in its published leaflet form.
January 22, 2026 at 9:15 PM
In 1999 (!) the Home Office’s guide for good working practices:
‘a transsexual employee [the term then used for transgender people] should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present’.
So simple isn’t it
‘a transsexual employee [the term then used for transgender people] should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present’.
So simple isn’t it
Oh this is lovely - big recommend if you’re after a 2 min micro break
Happy Birthday Mel Bonis ! #botd
Here is her own personal favorite piece she ever wrote, ‘Mélisande’
Performed live in @francemusique.fr Le Live, Paris
youtu.be/HR2gz_w-_c0?...
Here is her own personal favorite piece she ever wrote, ‘Mélisande’
Performed live in @francemusique.fr Le Live, Paris
youtu.be/HR2gz_w-_c0?...
Mel Bonis : Mélisande (Femmes de légende)
YouTube video by France Musique concerts
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Oh this is lovely - big recommend if you’re after a 2 min micro break
Please sign!
Trump is threatening the UK & 7 other supposed allies with more tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. This can't be allowed to happen. Join me and sign the petition telling Keir Starmer not to give in to this bully: 38d.gs/gld_tf_bs
Sign the petition: Tell Keir Starmer: Don't back down over Trump's Greenland tariff threats.
Trump is threatening the UK & 7 other supposed allies with more tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. This can't be allowed to happen. Join me and sign the petition telling Keir Starmer not t...
38d.gs
January 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Please sign!
Today I googled a new medication to check it was ok with existing meds. Acc. to first google searches they weren’t safe together. We rang the pharmacy. The google advice was wrong & it transpires AI generated.
AI is dangerous, wrong, unreliable & makes things up. Why on earth hasn’t it been banned?
AI is dangerous, wrong, unreliable & makes things up. Why on earth hasn’t it been banned?
January 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Today I googled a new medication to check it was ok with existing meds. Acc. to first google searches they weren’t safe together. We rang the pharmacy. The google advice was wrong & it transpires AI generated.
AI is dangerous, wrong, unreliable & makes things up. Why on earth hasn’t it been banned?
AI is dangerous, wrong, unreliable & makes things up. Why on earth hasn’t it been banned?
Children leading anti-ICE protests in Minnesota
Children leading
Students from multiple St. Paul Public Schools walked out of class on Wednesday to demonstrate against the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. They marched to the Capitol for a rally on the building's steps.
Video Laura Yuen/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Video Laura Yuen/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Children leading anti-ICE protests in Minnesota
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
#WomenComposers Mel Bonis is an inspiring example of perseverance & talent in the face of the obstacles imposed by a patriarchal society. Influenced by Romantic composers, she gradually opened up to modernity under the influence of Fauré & Debussy.
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m...
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m...
Resilience in Harmony: The Story of Composer Mel Bonis
Mel Bonis is one of the most moving figures in French classical music. As a female composer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she faced many obstacles. Through her immense talent and…
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
#WomenComposers Mel Bonis is an inspiring example of perseverance & talent in the face of the obstacles imposed by a patriarchal society. Influenced by Romantic composers, she gradually opened up to modernity under the influence of Fauré & Debussy.
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m...
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m...
Resilience in Harmony: The Story of Composer Mel Bonis
Mel Bonis is one of the most moving figures in French classical music. As a female composer of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she faced many obstacles. Through her immense talent and…
beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
😀
Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️
🎶 #womencomposers
UK people: there is a vigil TONIGHT 6.30 pm at the US Embassy for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of ICE violence.
#stoptrump
Details here:
#stoptrump
Details here:
Mon 12 Jan at 6:30pm
US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London, SW11 7US
Wear black, if possible, and bring an umbrella
US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, London, SW11 7US
Wear black, if possible, and bring an umbrella
January 12, 2026 at 11:41 AM
UK people: there is a vigil TONIGHT 6.30 pm at the US Embassy for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of ICE violence.
#stoptrump
Details here:
#stoptrump
Details here:
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples.
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I became a supporter of the Stop Trump Coalition today.
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
About
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples.
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
💜 🎼 I try to post everyday about women composers, because we need to give more visibility to women composers of the past whose work has often been erased from music history. There is so much wonderful music composed by women to be discovered and championed. #WomenComposers
#WomenComposers Henriette Renié (1875-1956) revolutionized the harp. A virtuoso, renowned teacher and talented composer, she refused limits imposed on women musicians. With her Harp Concerto, she established this instrument as an essential solo instrument in major French symphonic concerts.
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM
💜 🎼 I try to post everyday about women composers, because we need to give more visibility to women composers of the past whose work has often been erased from music history. There is so much wonderful music composed by women to be discovered and championed. #WomenComposers
Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples.
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I became a supporter of the Stop Trump Coalition today.
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
About
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples.
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…
I became a supporter of the Stop Trump Coalition today.
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
About
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I became a supporter of the Stop Trump Coalition today.
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
Agonising on social media isn’t enough.
Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them.
stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/
Reposted by Prof Kate Loder
We can’t do nothing
A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact.
Ditto - writing to MP
Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new
A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact.
Ditto - writing to MP
Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new
January 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM
We can’t do nothing
A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact.
Ditto - writing to MP
Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new
A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact.
Ditto - writing to MP
Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new