Dr Barbara Eichner
@barbaraeichner.bsky.social
Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
Proper Charleston music would have made it much easier for them.
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Proper Charleston music would have made it much easier for them.
We found the MU much more helpful than UCU.
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We found the MU much more helpful than UCU.
So social history is less "true" than economic or military history, because one is practised by women and the other by men? What a weird take.
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So social history is less "true" than economic or military history, because one is practised by women and the other by men? What a weird take.
If this was 15k jobs lost in fishing, aviation or some other "manly" sector, the media would howl in indignation, and heads would roll. But who cares about the evisceration of education?
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If this was 15k jobs lost in fishing, aviation or some other "manly" sector, the media would howl in indignation, and heads would roll. But who cares about the evisceration of education?
Robert Pascall was a legend.
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Robert Pascall was a legend.
I hope your campaign will be more successful than ours was. Coraggio!
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I hope your campaign will be more successful than ours was. Coraggio!
If Britain agrees to simply step into an existing form of agreement and doesn't demand - again - what in German is called an "Extrawurst", why not.
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If Britain agrees to simply step into an existing form of agreement and doesn't demand - again - what in German is called an "Extrawurst", why not.
Maybe start with common market.
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Maybe start with common market.
The percentage was lower North of the Alps, but still sizeable.
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The percentage was lower North of the Alps, but still sizeable.
What if we don't destroy the one we've got?
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What if we don't destroy the one we've got?
Is that the same Middle Ages that gave us Hildegard von Bingen and literally thousands of nuns who could read and write, often in several languages?
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Is that the same Middle Ages that gave us Hildegard von Bingen and literally thousands of nuns who could read and write, often in several languages?
We covered very little WWII, but my mother remembers that post-war history teaching was basically US adulation.
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We covered very little WWII, but my mother remembers that post-war history teaching was basically US adulation.
Ah well, Dobrindt.
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ah well, Dobrindt.
My point was more about the German Grundgesetz and judiciary, than the current crop of politicians (who are largely deplorable).
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My point was more about the German Grundgesetz and judiciary, than the current crop of politicians (who are largely deplorable).