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Katie Bank
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music + art in early modern England | Leverhulme Trust ECF @ Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | tech stuff too | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
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drhannahrobbins.bsky.social
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges. The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.
Poster for conference on beauty with mountains and QR code. Www.canbeautysavetheworld.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
spparkle.bsky.social
Win up to £1250 for your essay on travel and/or cultural exchange www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... (in spite of the outdated link summary)
The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
www.hakluyt.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
Do say hello if you’re at @srsrensoc.bsky.social Bristol this week! @bhamcrems.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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marklewi5.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to present at this event a few days ago - my first academic paper delivered 📄😅

Thank you @spparkle.bsky.social and Peter Auger for organising, to the other presenters for some terrific papers, and to those who listened to me and asked questions - very much appreciated!
June 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
@crems-york.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social @bhamcrems.bsky.social @emeccwarwick.bsky.social ??
nikkihessell.bsky.social Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · May 25
18C people, can anyone point me to environmental or ecological readings of Gray's Elegy?
Painting of the English poet Thomas Gray.
June 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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bhamcrems.bsky.social
Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free!

www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
Popular recreations in Early Modern England
Insights into current research into recreational materials and activities in early modern England.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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bhamcrems.bsky.social
Last few days to get in your abstracts! Popular Recreations in Early Modern England with keynote by Prof Christopher Marsh!

www.katiebankmusic.com/post/call-fo...
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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lauriestras.bsky.social
My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Same, little pepper, same
A bell pepper in the fetal position
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
The ByrdCentral website will be going soon. As our last farewell, we wanted to share with you some stats from our education outreach project on the life and music of William Byrd, 'Reasons to Sing'

🎊 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project...

Thank you for following us on our ByrdNyrd journey!
Project Summary: Byrd's 'Reasons to Sing'
In 2023, we celebrated the quatercentenary of English renaissance composer William Byrd. Thanks to generous grants from Arts Council England and the Stile Antico Foundation (with additional support fr...
www.byrdcentral.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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lindsaybloch.bsky.social
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric. a small ceramic sherd with a stylized geometric pattern in blue and white thumbnail painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's office.
Rehearsing Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at #bostonmanorhouse
www.ticketsource.co.uk/boston-manor...
#earlymodern #earlymusic
@beyondshakes.bsky.social @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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wildpasts.bsky.social
I guess most grant proposals work out like this
March 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!
March 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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bhamcrems.bsky.social
Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!
February 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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beinghumanfest.bsky.social
We've recently updated our Public Engagement Toolkits. Our free, downloadable PDF guides are full of useful ideas and tips for putting on a successful #PublicEngagement event.

Toolkit topics include inclusion, partnerships, formats, budget, audiences and more!
Toolkits
Toolkits full of useful tips and tricks to help you put on a successful public engagement event or activity
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February 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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samuelpepys.bsky.social
I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed.
February 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
Logo of Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (within which sits the Centre for Early Modern Studies)
February 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
spparkle.bsky.social
See it if you can. It was super fun.
February 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
spparkle.bsky.social
And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).
February 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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chorally.bsky.social
Apply by 19 Feb 2025: Trusts & Foundations Manager, London Youth Choirs, UK
@londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social
www.chorally.co/c/find-jobs/...
February 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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srsrensoc.bsky.social
in case you missed it during the work week: registration is now open! 🤗
srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Feb 13
This also means that registration is open!

Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦‍🔥)

Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial...

#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
February 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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ka-butler.bsky.social
Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are:

The jolly old dog as he lay in his den.

Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall?

A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall

Any ideas #earlymodern?
February 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM