Dr Alice Little
@littleamiss.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century music, researching folk music, history of collecting, tunebooks, national music, and museums. Also writing books and stories and drinking tea in the garden.
This gets my vote, for what it’s worth!
April 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This gets my vote, for what it’s worth!
I find that doing yoga in front of the shelves allows me to view their spines from all angles to mature my choice.
April 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I find that doing yoga in front of the shelves allows me to view their spines from all angles to mature my choice.
Depending on where you are, your local public library card gets you past a lot of paywalls (eg, read newspapers in the app, or on paper in the building). Also, employers sometimes subscribe to relevant things, again depends on what it is. Multiple log-ins unavoidable it seems.
April 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Depending on where you are, your local public library card gets you past a lot of paywalls (eg, read newspapers in the app, or on paper in the building). Also, employers sometimes subscribe to relevant things, again depends on what it is. Multiple log-ins unavoidable it seems.
Other than the date, it is impossible to tell that this is an April Fool’s.
April 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Other than the date, it is impossible to tell that this is an April Fool’s.
I have an amazing mantelpiece clock that I was told would cost £1k to fix, if he’s looking for interesting projects… but I am not a church 😂
March 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I have an amazing mantelpiece clock that I was told would cost £1k to fix, if he’s looking for interesting projects… but I am not a church 😂
I wouldn’t list them all, it has always been normal to consult more than you cite, just give an indication of scale. If you can deposit the actual dataset in a uni repository for sustainable access then all the better.
March 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I wouldn’t list them all, it has always been normal to consult more than you cite, just give an indication of scale. If you can deposit the actual dataset in a uni repository for sustainable access then all the better.
Bet someone else wanted to read it so they just said that. (The thought it wasn’t actually thrown away comforts me a little.)
I left my favourite hat on a train once, and went through the same mini-grief experience.
I left my favourite hat on a train once, and went through the same mini-grief experience.
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Bet someone else wanted to read it so they just said that. (The thought it wasn’t actually thrown away comforts me a little.)
I left my favourite hat on a train once, and went through the same mini-grief experience.
I left my favourite hat on a train once, and went through the same mini-grief experience.
I have been meaning to do this for a while, I shall move it up the list. ❤️
January 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I have been meaning to do this for a while, I shall move it up the list. ❤️
He’ll get the joke in a second, don’t worry 🙄
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
He’ll get the joke in a second, don’t worry 🙄
The image is a page from John Malchair’s tunebook at the VWML dating from the early 1780s, including typical marginalia about where/when/from whom he heard the tune, which is why I love this source. The tune itself begins: do dum do-be-do do do do, do dum do-be-do do ba-do dum.
January 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The image is a page from John Malchair’s tunebook at the VWML dating from the early 1780s, including typical marginalia about where/when/from whom he heard the tune, which is why I love this source. The tune itself begins: do dum do-be-do do do do, do dum do-be-do do ba-do dum.