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“Moult sui de bonne heure nee” by Guillaume de Machaut #nowplaying #radio3

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now with mended alternative ticket link for those who don't do Dice: www.seetickets.com/event/north-... Thanks to @ntheowl.bsky.social for spotting the breakage!

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hm. Not sure Innocent III is the best person to quote in this context. Unless the irony is intended...

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Live show coming up! I'm really happy about this one, as I love NSRO.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Just follow that line forever," said the Mathemagician, "and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and the most and the least of everything are kept." "I really don't have that much time," said Milo

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now with mended alternative ticket link for those who don't do Dice: www.seetickets.com/event/north-... Thanks to @ntheowl.bsky.social for spotting the breakage!

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of my favourite items in the BM.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excellent article. I particularly enjoyed the Google Ngram of the phrase 'Deus vult' on p.60.

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English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

£500 Grants for professional folk artists Apply now! Thanks to the continued and generous support of Conrad and Jennifer Bailey. Deadline for applications is midnight on 1 November Image shows previous Micro Grant recipient Claire Vine www.efdss.org/artist-devel...

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Live show alert! London, December 12th. I'm delighted about this, as I love North Sea Radio Orchestra. This will be a real treat. That ticket link again: link.dice.fm/Odbdc093d651

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Interesting. Also makes me think of The King of the Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel, a magical book I read as a child which I may now need to dig out and re-read.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For many years now I have been trying to convince people that I "straddle the line 'twixt discord and rhyme" like Duran Duran in Hungry Like the Wolf, but no one believes those are the real lyrics.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Live show alert! London, December 12th. I'm delighted about this, as I love North Sea Radio Orchestra. This will be a real treat. That ticket link again: link.dice.fm/Odbdc093d651

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I see I have just picked up quite a few new followers, which is lovely; thank you to you all! I hope you'll see and hear things you enjoy here. If you haven't yet listened to my stuff and want somewhere to start, may I suggest this, still one of my favourites: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fpb...

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For Barely One in a Thousand (The Practice of Lights) - Kate Arnold

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For Barely One in a Thousand (The Practice of Lights) - Kate Arnold

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble

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Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

David Lynch and Jocelyn Montgomery collaborated on a haunting album of Hildegard’s music. It does not aim for historical authenticity but does, I think, achieve emotional authenticity, which is more difficult and admirable. faroutmagazine.co.uk/lux-vivens-d...

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David Lynch's esoteric ode to a 12th-century nun

David Lynch was an avid musician, and he once produced an album based on Hildegard von Bingen's 12th-century compositions with Jocelyn Montgomery.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It has been several years and I still haven't got over this album. Appropriate to post a bit of it again today, as 14th September is the Feast of the Holy Cross, for which this incredible transcendent music would have been performed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrK5...

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Choral Stichologia (Palaion)

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently I can't visit a medieval place without taking copious notes and imagining various musical performance possibilities, and I'm not the only one! Thank you Ellen & Tom (Dead Space Chamber Music) for an inspiring medieval weekend in Bristol. Scene of a future project? Perhaps! Wait and see.

Interior of Temple Church, Bristol, which is ruinous and open to the sky but retains its late medieval features. Kate leans on the remains of a stone column to take notes on her surroundings while some pigeons mind their own business.

Kate standing near the altar of the ruined Temple Church, Bristol, taking a photo in the direction of the nave. A coffee cup is on the ground in front of her (don't worry, she took it with her when she left).

Two women in black, looking quizzical at the entrance to Temple Church, Bristol.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Beetles

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lyve longe and prospir, blue skye friendes! #StarTrekDay

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Back-to-school time again so here's the violin lessons ad. Picked up a few new starters already but I have room for a couple more. Rates: reasonable. Times: flexible. Online: possible. Adult beginners /refreshers welcome too. Get in touch /pass it on! #violinteacher #music #violinlessons

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Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East @latineast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy #ManuscriptMonday! This delightful historiated initial S depicts the Tomb of Christ within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, complete with its hanging lamp on folio 102v of a copy of William of Tyre's Chronicle [BnF, MS Français 9082]

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another photo of the narrow tiled pathway at Goodge Street station, easily one of my favourite locations on the Underground. Despite its striking appearance, it often goes unnoticed as passengers hurry towards the lifts. Is this the narrowest location on the underground network?

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I absolutely love the @museecarnavalet.bsky.social ! Must get back there soon.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thanks to all who have supported my 'glitchy electro-dulcimer' experiment so far! I know it seems like a long wait for the new album; we'll get there. If you enjoy my music, please share it. More listeners = more supporters = more new music sooner. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/platfo...

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't normally release demos /WiPs etc, but you might like this experiment in dulcimer synthification. If 10% of my followers buy it, I'll have enough for another day in the studio completing the mythical album! Meanwhile, the experiments continue. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/platfo...

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Platform 1 (an experiment), by Kate Arnold

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So beautiful. Beware of anyone who doesn't like Renaissance polyphony.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What an interesting week I've had - including a marvellous day here researching the Middle East & North Africa in English traditional song. Lots of exciting, unexpected discoveries. Can't wait to share them! Thank you @efdss.bsky.social for making it possible. See you again at the appointed hour!

Old-fashioned freestanding 'pillory'-style signpost reading 'Cecil Sharp House: The English Folk Dance and Song Society' outside Cecil Sharp House in Camden, London. The 'Obby 'Oss at the top.

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Kiffie8 @kiffie.info · 04/09/2026

Hey everyone... check out this release by @dulcimerkate.bsky.social a lovely bit of layering and synchopation building an eerie mood. Hopeful yet contemplative. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/platfo...

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Platform 1 (an experiment), by Kate Arnold

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Platform 1 (an experiment), by Kate Arnold

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Bayeux Tapestry was confusing.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There may be, but I can't think of one right now.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Please share around, as I really want to know! Re: the overuse and devaluation of the word "iconic". Linguistic hyperinflation? #linguists #linguistics

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why does it bother me? Perhaps because its inappropriate use in so many cases dilutes its meaning, devaluing it in cases where it is appropriate. Soon it'll be so overused it'll have no meaning at all & then fall out of use entirely, worn out & exhausted. It's a kind of linguistic over-consumption.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Have we hit peak "iconic" yet? I know it's beyond my control and it's just what happens with language, especially these days, but the inane overuse/misuse of that word is starting to drive me mad. "You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means..."

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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Diﬀerence in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of diﬀerence.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 27/08/2026

Los Terribles - Algo Mejor [Peru, Synth-Pop, Electronic, Latin) [1987] Lo-Fi Cover of Dead Or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round' redd.it/iiws1r youtu.be/YOCcOT6W6po

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Los Terribles - Algo Mejor [Peru, Synth-Pop, Electronic, Latin) [1987] Lo-Fi Cover of Dead Or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round'

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 27/08/2026

Emaad Sayyah - Imshi Ou Imshi [Lebanon, Electronic, Synth, Folk, Funk, Disco(?)] (1983) Mellow synth-driven folk-funk. Reminiscent of Velly Joonas' classic Stopp, Seisku Aeg! redd.it/drn6vx youtu.be/pK28Q3O9x2U

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Emaad Sayyah - Imshi Ou Imshi [Lebanon, Electronic, Synth, Folk, Funk, Disco(?)] (1983) Mellow synth-driven folk-funk. Reminiscent of Velly Joonas' classic Stopp, Seisku Aeg!

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A tantalising glimpse into someone's life, from the Cairo Geniza. Note the pens and books!

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How marvellous this is. So often, I am surprised and thrilled by Vivaldi.

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the sort of thing I want to see on a Monday morning (or indeed any morning). At the Cathedral of Salerno, Duomo di Santa Maria degli Angeli, San Matteo e San Gregorio VII. Also enjoying the bell tower (see full thread).

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Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Study the history of the Crusades with me! Starting on 24 Sept, "The Crusades: From Primary Source to scholarly verdict" will run online for ten weekly sessions. 15% off using code: BacktoSchool (expires 31 Aug) @medievalists.bsky.social Info ⬇️ medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/crus...

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The Crusades: From Primary Source to Scholarly Verdict

A scholarly overview of the Crusades from the First Crusade (1095) to Saladin’s conquest of Jerusalem (1187). We examine primary sources from this period, considering how we can answer some of the mos...

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All the below, except I'd never even heard of John Lewis. I'd also add remote control TV and Viennetta.

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Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

An Italian account of the English beer and wine selection, c.1500. Wines have to be imported, but the beer and ale is pretty good apparently, 'when a person is by chance somewhat heated'.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19/08/2026

Grupo Gente Feliz - Fiesta Sin Limite [Peru ; New Wave] (1983) B-52's cover. Despite the label saying it's "Party Out Of Bounds", the song is actually a cover of "Private Idaho". redd.it/1vgb7ny youtu.be/ku2GaO4K5CQ

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Grupo Gente Feliz - Fiesta Sin Limite [Peru ; New Wave] (1983) B-52's cover. Despite the label saying it's "Party Out Of Bounds", the song is actually a cover of "Private Idaho".

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