Huge props to Andrew Woolley for clocking the Norfolk source as copied by Purcell, with his telltale scribal quirks ✍️

I was honestly so shocked to find this fragment; so much of the time when items are listed as ‘songs’ it’s just text without notation, but not all the time, and that is why it is important to check!

Putting ‘went to summer camp with Jeffrey Epstein’ on my CV

Also if you are interested in the history of gender, mental illness, and social precarity for early modern women, this is the article 4 u

*this is not real and there is no evidence indicating this I made it up and I will absolutely do it again

Sad to miss yours too! Been there - I know how lucky I am. Hopefully soon 🤞

No gods no masters only Mari Lywd and a bottle of bucky

Slides are in, come to my papers to become uncontainable

If anyone anywhere needs help navigating the system, or support in other ways, please reach out, either to me or whomever you need. @willtheanderson.bsky.social and I couldn’t shoulder this burden alone, and we are so grateful to our friends and family (chosen or otherwise).

Next stop: citizenship, in the country I have lived in my entire life.

This is genuinely one of the hardest things to square psychologically: the very real fear one feels at being an immigrant dealing with hostile environment while also feeling guilty knowing that it is much easier for you as a ‘good immigrant’ (white with cultural capital and/or liquidity)

Its so rare as academics to get a chance to collectively dig down into fundamental issues with how we do research and have good, intense, productive debates, let alone play a small role in shaping how Early Music Happens - privilege indeed! 😊

Being raised in the Midwest (and spending a significant portion of your childhood in buttf*ck nowhere Indiana) is wild sometimes