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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

Many thanks to @kresenkernow.bsky.social for their support of our work 🥰 Nadelik Lowen!

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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

Our next stop will be at @kresenkernow.bsky.social - keep your eyes peeled…

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

… while part 2 covers Dorset carolling and Thomas Hardy. We’re grateful for work done thus far by @wessexmuseums.bsky.social and @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social on Hardy’s fascination with carols, and their support of our work on a rich and growing area of research! tinyurl.com/4e6pzx74

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Carols, heritage, and place: Dorset in focus (Part 2 of 3) — Music, Heritage, Place

The second 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

Huge props to Andrew Woolley for clocking the Norfolk source as copied by Purcell, with his telltale scribal quirks ✍️

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

I was honestly so shocked to find this fragment; so much of the time when items are listed as ‘songs’ it’s just text without notation, but not all the time, and that is why it is important to check!

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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

Putting ‘went to summer camp with Jeffrey Epstein’ on my CV

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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

Also if you are interested in the history of gender, mental illness, and social precarity for early modern women, this is the article 4 u

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

*this is not real and there is no evidence indicating this I made it up and I will absolutely do it again

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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 · 06/07/2025

Sad to miss yours too! Been there - I know how lucky I am. Hopefully soon 🤞

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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

No gods no masters only Mari Lywd and a bottle of bucky

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

Slides are in, come to my papers to become uncontainable

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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

If anyone anywhere needs help navigating the system, or support in other ways, please reach out, either to me or whomever you need. @willtheanderson.bsky.social and I couldn’t shoulder this burden alone, and we are so grateful to our friends and family (chosen or otherwise).

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

Next stop: citizenship, in the country I have lived in my entire life.

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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

This is genuinely one of the hardest things to square psychologically: the very real fear one feels at being an immigrant dealing with hostile environment while also feeling guilty knowing that it is much easier for you as a ‘good immigrant’ (white with cultural capital and/or liquidity)

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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

Its so rare as academics to get a chance to collectively dig down into fundamental issues with how we do research and have good, intense, productive debates, let alone play a small role in shaping how Early Music Happens - privilege indeed! 😊

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

Being raised in the Midwest (and spending a significant portion of your childhood in buttf*ck nowhere Indiana) is wild sometimes

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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

Fast forwarding 22 years later and suddenly I’m both translating a 17th-century French convent ceremonial and also analysing a contemporaneous English translation of said ceremonial, truly it does get better

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

This musical kept me alive ages 12-13 and i am realising there may have been some egg moments here both regarding my gender identity and neurodivergency

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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

We will never ever ever stop being hot and hilarious, and facists hate that. We will never stop standing up for every single person’s right to be free, safe, and comfortable in their body. Turn up for your trans kindred, if for no other reason than because we will turn up for you 🩷🤍🩵

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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

Out of curiosity, how did you come to the renumeration figures? In musicology performance-enactment stuff I’ve done we’ve usually gone with Musicians’ Union figures or thereabouts, and I’m wondering how this tracks with other disciplines!

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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

My teenage years would’ve gone down differently if I knew someone like Edouard

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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

Finally, it suggests some possibilities for how Neville’s book may have been partially produced and/or used in a convent context 🎶💒👰‍♀️

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

The article contextualizes the book against a wider backdrop of English convent musical culture and music education at the convent schools by using new research that has been undertaken since 2011.

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

It uncovers evidence of likely usage in the context of an exiled English convent and demonstrates that the book probably travelled across the channel several times over two generations, used by both mother and daughter, both in and out of an English convent context.

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

The article explores a music book that initially belonged to Ursula Nevell [Neville] (c.1653–1727), identifying the contents of the book, including new sources of music from the final quarter of the 17th century.

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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 · 29/11/2024

Enclosure is such a complicated thing; it deserves such nuance and close interrogation as you give it in your article, but rarely gets it!

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