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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It’s boxing day and I have now forced all my relatives to read my posts while recovering from The Turkey ™️ If you’re looking for something to mentally digest on this fine day, our blogposts may well hit the spot the turkey missed! 🎄🍗🎁

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

And that’s the final post out! Check out my piece for the MHP project on Cornish carols, and why Davies Gilbert is …. Well, you’ll have to read the blog to find out 🙃⬇️🎄 www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/carols...

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Carols, Heritage, and Place: Cornwall in focus — Music, Heritage, Place

The third of a three-part series of long-reads exploring Christmas music sources in county record offices across southern England.

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It’s the last week of term and you know what that means… carols with caro! I’ve written a 3-part blog series of for @musicheritageplace.bsky.social documenting our work on music for Christmas thus far 🎶🎄 part 1 is an introduction to carols and overview of our work… tinyurl.com/3afscfyu

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Carols, heritage, and place: an introduction (Part 1 of 3) — Music, Heritage, Place

The first of a three-part series of long-reads exploring Christmas music sources in county record offices across southern England.

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Belated announcement - it was a pleasure to have my discoveries in Worcestershire and Norfolk county archives of new Purcell sources covered by the Guardian! When I harp on at my colleagues about how they should make sure to comb archives, carefully this is why… www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

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‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’m sorry but no fucking way No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Sometimes I think about how I played viola at junior conservatoire at University of Michigan, & how they helped local state schools send kids to Interlochen every summer. Anyways the Umich head of strings got convicted for child sex trafficking & Jeffrey Epstein had a holiday home at Interlochen

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Third article in a year, smashed 💪 if you are interested in convents, English catholic history, French baroque music, and/or material for my forthcoming steamy HBO show in which Francois Couperin fights his friend for the love of his friend’s wife*, check it out ➡️ academic.oup.com/em/article/d...

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Convent connections: the musical networks of English convents in France, the exiled Stuart court and the Couperin family

Abstract. Exchanges between French and English musical cultures in early modern Paris have finally begun to receive more scrutiny over the past two decades

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Second in-person MedRen smashed 💪 Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In hindsight signing up to do two papers at @medren2025.bsky.social might have been overly ambitious

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Finally writing my long awaited hater paper for a conference and it is exhilarating

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy pride, don’t forget to get a nice card for your wife’s bisexual twunk boyfriend and leave out cookies and milk for Cher xxx

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It took nearly 11 years of the state trying to bankrupt us, wear us down, & destroy any sense that I belonged to a community or family. But they couldn’t, and now, the home office has conceded that I do in fact belong here: I have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. And I ain’t going nowhere.

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today @musicheritageplace.bsky.social premieres on the radio! Tune every day this week to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 9.45 pm into hear about music history, enclosure, social history, and more 🎵

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I am back at it with EarlyMuse this week in Bern and it has occurred to me I may be 1 of 20-30 people ever to have visited both Bern, Switzerland and Berne, Indiana

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Well that’s the end of frociaggine Fridays I guess

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Solidarity with boomer men everywhere who at some point underwent some form of HRT for cancer treatment and have now found themselves forced-femmed by the UK Supreme Court, u deserve better hunnies xxx

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Becoming reobssessed with the musical Le Roi du Soleil (2005) and realising that the gender binary consisted of two wolves inside me, both of whom are ready to tank the French economy through hyperinflation, political centralisation of economic decisions, and shiny trinkets

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The thing about trying to get everyone to hate trans people is trans people are extremely funny and therefore it is very hard to get people angry at them, and facists HATE being laughed at. Oxford will always be queer, no matter how many busloads of boomer freaks the uni invites onto our streets ✊

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

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We Are The 632: University of Dundee staff speak out

YouTube video by Dundee UCU

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Very much enjoyed repping @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in Bratislava last week! Great to get down to the nitty gritty philosophical, technical, and technological challenges for a new musicological ecosystem last week with the EarlyMuse project 💪🇸🇰

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Last bits of study for the Basilinda Consort’s first festival performance this Thursday! Come along to the Keble Early Music Festival at @kebleoxford.bsky.social Thursday night to hear some fabulous baroque music for upper voices, feat. new research into early modern exiled English convents 💒🎶👰

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The temptation to use this for the AHRC project website

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Musicology is when you have an extra spicy cigarette and listen to this on repeat for two hours

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Another article out! This time new research from *beyond the thesis* 😱 if you like book history, early music, and history of music education, with a particular focus on english women, check it out 🙃https://tinyurl.com/aca74a27

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Thrilled to say my article on a musical miscellany from Douai Municipal Library has been published (open access) by the Royal Musicological Association Research Chronicle ☺️💪 tinyurl.com/32m5v4xv if you’re interested in early modern English Catholicism, musical networks, & book history, check it out!

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Gender is a spectrum between ski hats and shimmery eye shadow, kill the gender cop inside your head

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

All I’m saying is IREMUS have started working on an early modern music handwriting database, and if it’s one thing that will get a grant application for an English counterpart over the line it’s that we cannot let the French best us

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Ich bin on the radio ! If you’re looking for chat on carols, convents, and music book history, look no further than this BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’ podcast episode, hosted by @leahbroad.bsky.social ⬇️ t.co/DiOLWXtCzN

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

MERRY GRADUATION TO ME AND ALSO THE RHUL SQUADRON, YOU CAN NOW ASK ME ABOUT NUNS AND THEIR MUSIC AND ALSO URBAN SPACE AND ALSO MUSIC IN LITURGY AND ALSO MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS AS LIFE WRITING AND ALSO BOOK HISTORY AND ALSO TRANSLATION PRACTICE FOR EARLY MODERN LITURGY IN EXILE AND ALSO drinking culture

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Tf when the music director goes off on a twenty minute tangent about beans in cakes to select the Christmas queen on epiphany at an exiled English convent and you’re trying to work out how this is an answer to a question about ficta

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

A very cunty Christmas season to you all

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

That’s right baby, the family heirlooms with candle wax from New Jersey, 1977 are coming out 🎄🎄

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Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

I am not kidding the first thing I heard this morning when the cat jumped on my head at 7 am was ‘babe, babe it finally happened, Henry Kissinger died’ and only now do I believe I was not in fact dreaming

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