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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

screenshot of The Renaissance Beyond Borders: SRS conference 2027
30 Jun 2027-3 July 2027
deadline 25 September 2026
Location: the warburg institute and school of advanced study, university of london

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Very excited to be working with @racheljwillie.bsky.social et al and our rather STELLAR editorial board (if I don't say so myself).

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A really lovely review of my book Duet: An Artful History of Music in @wsj.com! US readers, you can now get your hands on this gorgeous and very cat-endorsed art history through music!

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A really lovely review of my book Duet: An Artful History of Music in @wsj.com! US readers, you can now get your hands on this gorgeous and very cat-endorsed art history through music!

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

2/ Increasingly our research funding is driven by what policy makers decide as the country’s priorities. Research shouldn’t be only about how to effectively implement policy that is already decided.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

1/ This pause is obviously concerning to researchers & universities & I’d like to specifically register the point that if the reason of ‘aligning with national priorities’ means more policy-driven & less free ideas-driven research then this move is of even more concern. www.msn.com/en-in/politi...

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Agonising over what to listen to over your haggis this evening? Never fear! I’m on Radio 3 tonight talking about one of the most incredible musical-visual relics of the Tudor era (complete with singing and top banter with @spparkle.bsky.social and Liz Waring)! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Eglantine Table at Hardwick Hall

Ellie Chan visits Hardwick Hall in search of a fascinating relic of Tudor musical culture.

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I saw these enigmatic so-called ‘Music of the Spheres’ MSS at Edinburgh’s Blackie House Library & Museum. Their tantalising history of ancient Coptic-Egyptian music, hermetic interpretation, & likely fraud is painstakingly reconstructed here BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Great Egyptian Music Mystery

Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...

The cover of a book. Text reads Textile Shakespeare. The lower part of the image is ink printed on linen and embroidery, black on white, with some silver thread, with flowers, fruit, insects, and animals. it is discoloured with age.

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Dr Kate Kennedy @drkkennedy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚 Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.' 📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)  More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

New books from Catz alumni include 'Duet: An Artful History of Music' by @elliechan.bsky.social (2009, English), 'Diary of a Wicked Witch' by Ben Miller (1985, Natural Sciences) and 'Afterthoughts' by Richard Ayoade (1995, Law). 1/2

Cover designs for 'Duet: An Artful History of Music', 'Diary of a Wicked Witch' and 'Afterthoughts' against a pink background.

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

One whole week of Duet! It’s been an absolute whirlwind of incredibly enriching conversations with @petroc.bsky.social @elizabethalker.bsky.social and @drkkennedy.bsky.social and SUCH a delight to see this whimsical little book out into the world. Available now in all good bookshops!

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Music at Oxford @musicatoxford.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This Monday, with @elliechan.bsky.social and @drkkennedy.bsky.social Details: www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/boo...

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Music at Oxford @musicatoxford.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just announced! To celebrate the launch of her book ‘Duet’ Dr Eleanor Chan will be in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy (author of 'Cello') on Monday 22 September. Tickets are just £6.50. Details: www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/boo...

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Book Launch: Dr Eleanor Chan's 'Duet' | Music at Oxford

To celebrate the launch of her book ‘Duet’ Dr Eleanor Chan will be in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy.

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Tonight!!! Exploring how Beethoven was used during World War II, featuring the only interview Elly Ney's family have given to English language media 😱 this was such a fascinating doc to make

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, almost all letter writers had to use letterlocking. "Letterlocking" provides an archival history of the practice, including sources so readers can learn how to make locked letters for their own correspondence: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204927...

"Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" on a white background. The cover is black featuring an image of an unsealed locked letter. Text denotes the authors are Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Here's an idea for Microsoft: ditch the stupid AI BS and improve the software.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Team, exciting news! Duet: An Artful History of music not only has a cover, it is also available to preorder! It’s a visual history of music 35,000BCE-present day, but also about failing to become a musician; about second chances; and about learning to look and listen.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/05/2024

We are characters in Act III Scene IV of a longer story and it’s just basic self-respect to want to know how we got here. Everyone deserves a chance to ask.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Queen Elizabeth I died #OTD in 1603. This volume of sermons by John Udall (London, 1596) luxuriously bound in velvet & with silver thread may have been made for presentation to the Queen, carrying her arms on both covers. Cambridge UL SSS.24.32.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Her husband: nO yoU cAnNot bE a cOnCErt pIanISt Anna Casparsson: *creates stunning embroidered art instead* A fascinating musical-visual intersection at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

And a Happy Valentines Day to us all, with love from Thomas Trevelyon's Elizabethan Meme Book.

A woman in a red Elizabethan dress with feather fan and green ruff, under the text 'the harlot: I vanquish you all'

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

It’s only taken her 8 months but Madame is finally starting to get the hang of this feline research assistant malarkey.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I figured it out! There is now a Musicology feed here on BlueSky. You can find it at bsky.app/profile/did:... (and please let me know if you have feedback!)

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Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

(CN - suicide) For those of you who are London-based/adjacent, this event features some excellent historians and is in aid of PAPYRUS, who work for prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people. An extremely important cause. Pls share.

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Tales of Youth | The Big History Night In - Southwark Cathedral

A 3-hour candlelit evening of history talks supporting the charity Papyrus who are dedicated to the prevention of suicide in young people

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

An exciting discovery at Christ's College Cambridge - early Tudor paintings uncovered in roof! Comments from yours truly included... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/camb...

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Rare medieval wall paintings found at Cambridge University by builders

The artwork, which celebrated the royal patron of Christ’s College during the early 16th century, was discovered during restoration work.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

#onmydesktoday: a book about the print culture in 16th and 17th centuries focusing on the idea of the ‘gap’. That’s a step towards a cultural history of absence. For #bookhistory and other fields that investigate into silence, space and emptiness. Bonus point for the “empty” book cover, #skystorians

Book cover of Jonathan Sawday: Blanks, Print, Space and Void in English Renaissance Literature (OUP 2023).

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Easing myself gently into 2024 (and post another bout of covid) writing about Cornelia Parker’s Breathless (2001) today. Feels awkwardly poignant.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Byrd Studies in the Twenty-first Century (Clemson, 2023) is out now! You can see a preview in Googlebooks and a link to buy below. www.byrdcentral.com/post/new-book

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New Book: Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century

The first collected edition of new Byrd scholarship since 1992.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

If you're looking for the answer to the question why QMUL is in the dire state it is in, then I don't think management could have been more clear than with its evasive non-answer and refusal to interact even with a key journalist in a national newspaper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price | Ad...

Even Scrooge would marvel at Queen Mary’s pay-docking over a marking boycott. No wonder higher education is in turmoil, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Our focus is not only European but also global. If you are interested in publishing with us, take a look at our author guidelines (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...), have a brief chat with our brilliant editor, Kevin Killeen, or ask someone who has published in RS how they found the process!

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

If you are interested in publishing with us, all submissions go through rigorous (but fair & constructive) peer review. We encourage submissions of articles & special issue proposals in all topics & fields associated with the capacious & wide-ranging “Renaissance”.

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Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Thrilled that Tara Hamling's and my article 'From Rejection to Reconciliation: Protestantism and the Image in Early Modern England' is now available to view open access on the Journal of British Studies website! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

To clarify for those not in UK academia: this means no foreigners qualify to even apply for museum jobs, anything in heritage or libraries, junior fac jobs, UK postdocs, all are entirely out of the question. And do that math outside academia- no foreign nurses, teachers, and on and on.

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Volvelle Calendar! Peter Apian's 1524 Cosmographia has some memorable hand coloring through that cut-out solar-lunar dial, doesn't it? #MovableMonday #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Sun in yellow peeking through lunar dial

Sun halfway covered in cutout in lunar dial

Dark and moon showing in cutout of lunar dial

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Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Early modernists on bluesky, I have a question! I'm looking for interesting half-sibling relationships - especially onstage, but also elsewhere (fairy tales are all of interest, as are real half-siblings). I'd love to know your thoughts!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/11/2023

Kiyoshi Saito, circa 1960

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Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Spent yesterday doing my first on-location recording for something pretty damn exciting! Tune into Music Matters on Radio 3 this Saturday at 11.45 to hear me in action! #earlymodern

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Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Ohhhhhh.....

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Looking for seasonal music to play or sing with friends? To Shorten Winter's Sadness: English Music and Song for Christmas and Winter from the 16th & 17th Centuries www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/to-s... #earlymusic #earlymodern #christmas #winter #carols #christmasmusic

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