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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 · 3d
A day for remembering #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 4d
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you! Made us laugh quite a bit, as you can imagine 🤣

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you! They do a bit, don’t they?

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 5d
Was meant to be a cute, rabbit-themed carrot cake for my wife’s birthday, but has turned out more pagan murder ritual.
A rabbit made from marzipan with carrots everywhere 🥕 The rabbits gather around a flame in the centre of the pagan cake 🔥

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 6d
gofund.me/ca2d99afb Our fabulous community cricket & bowling club does so much for us all and young people and families in particular. They need a new boiler, not least because it’s Yorkshire!
Donate to Help Keep Slaithwaite C&BC Running, organized by Slaithwaite Cricket Club
Help Keep Slaithwaite Cricket & Bowling Club Running Slaithwaite Cri… Slaithwaite Cricket Club needs your support for Help Keep Slaithwaite C&BC Running
gofund.me

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 7d
Can someone with access to Brill's online books help me with a few PDFs from A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages?

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 10d
Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.

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PhD placement scheme
Our annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply skills and expertise outside the university sector.
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 13d
In York for the day and spent the morning walking by lots of special buildings, including the old Borthwick Institute. Hungry work.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 14d
I like that very much. Someone with better Latin than me can tell me why this is not Novum Eboracum some time.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 14d
The next couple of weeks are essentially to be spent training garden birds to land here ahead of the RSPB bird watch.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 15d
Tried to make a map of a medieval town one mile radius around the cathedral today, using AI. It made a map of the modern town on a brown background so it would “look like parchment”.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 15d
Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
A colour block banner with the words 'International Fellowships 2026' written on the left-hand side.

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 16d
#earlymodern - this is a page from
Anne Clifford’s 1676 day book. What do you make of it. The marks on the left seem to correlate to the various hands or are they the remnant of an already marked up book? Full transcription in Malay’s edition

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 17d
Tomorrow the trains will be well, all trains will be well, and all manner of trains will be well.
an older woman in a nun 's outfit is standing in front of a bookshelf with dr. vagisan written on the bottom left
Alt: An older woman in a nun's outfit is standing in front of a bookshelf. May not be Julian of Norwich.
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 22d
Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...
NYU Theory Resources
This site compiles resources used in the undergraduate music theory sequence at NYU Steinhardt. Click the icons below to naviage to each of the pages.
sites.google.com

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Dec 29
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 27
Granted, my Navigator role went awry about an hour from the destination, bringing the total journey time to eight hours. BUT we did end up driving through Romsey, the medieval abbey records of which I was only reading yesterday. My family were placated by stopping also at a village pub. All’s well.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 26
Though the liner notes are very annoying, the playing is fabulous.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 26
New washing up backing track
CD of Scarlatti sonatas played by Jean Rondeau

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 19
Benefits of home working - daughter has made me a Christmas-coloured omelet for lunch.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 19
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 · Dec 18
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!
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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"

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 18
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 · Dec 18
NEWS | Early Music finds a new home in The Peak District

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

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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

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 17
Two more days until Christmas break.
Fluffy creature popping its head out of a hole to have a look around.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Dec 16
Thank you for joining in the singing! 10/10!

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Dec 15
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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