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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We're at the #edinburghfringe next month with our programme of gorgeous, largely forgotten arias from 1650's Venice, using two of @friendsofstcecilia.bsky.social ORIGINAL 16th and 17th century harpsichords! Tickets via the @edfringe.bsky.social website: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The quaint Tuxlith Chapel in West Sussex stood derelict for many decades before we stepped in and rescued it in the 1970s. 1/15 📷 Interior before repair works - circa 1973 (See thread for after images)

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@musicaantica.bsky.social 's next concert coming up on Saturday - lovely music, and only £2-£10 a ticket (though almost sold out)!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Looking forward to our Guidonian Hand workshop next week! Learn how to use it, and why it's important when singing and studying music fom 1200-1700. Tickets in 1st comment! #se16 #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

That's a wrap on our February tour - next stop: the album launch! #baroque #earlymusic #se16 #rotherhithe

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We start touring a beautiful programme of rarely-heard (and unheard since 1650s) music from Venice in just over two weeks. If you're near Oxford, Durham, Sheffield or London, take a look at our website! #sheffield #durham #oxford #opera #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And we're live! A tour of music from 17th century Venice and four programmes of beautiful music by Rameau, Binchois, Purcell, Strozzi, Bembo & the Caccini sisters make up Musica Antica Rotherhithe's 10th anniversary season. Tickets via our website! #se16 #rotherhithe #earlymusic #classicalmusic

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Musica Antica Rotherhithe @musicaantica.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Flyers ready and out for delivery! A Banchieri comedy and some lovely madrigals by Monteverdi, Marenzio and Casualana next month - tickets via our website! #earlymusic #concert #renaissance #se16 #rotherhithe

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Gorgeous 17th century house going to ruin on the Three Peaks trail today. Original glass in the windows??

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Do not forget Gaza. Do not forget Anas Al-Sharif. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Support Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

Please use the below text as a template to email the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper at coopery@parliament.uk in support of Dr Lindsey Fitzharris in her fight against the appalling decision to restrict ...

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Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

And it's Week 5 in our crowdfunder! Donations are slowly coming in but we would love it if you would share, share, share! This week's history lesson is on how nuns had fun, with lovely video spots from Kristiina Watt, Victoria Couper, Yvonne Eddy, and Elspeth Piggott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhQ...

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Crowdfunder 5: Nuns have fun!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The gentrification of Plumstead begins

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ridiculous new toy given what I actually need is a new harpsichord, but very grateful to Glenn Braun, who makes instruments that are usually wholly unaffordable accessible - in this case a lira da braccio, one of the go-to instruments for self-accompanied singing in the 15th century!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Circe leaves the room when she hears most music, but apparently loves ars nova keyboard intabulations

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Israeli government and the IDF are, categorically, committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Go ahead: arrest me.

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Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Prince William made £22.9M last year. But he won’t say how much tax he paid. What is he trying to hide? We fund the monarchy, so the least we deserve is transparency. ✍️ Sign the petition if you agree:

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Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ripieno Choir, based near Esher, is recruiting a choral scholar for 25-26. Deadline tomorrow! Looking for Tenor, Baritone or Bass aged 18-30. Sunday night rehearsals and termly concerts. £1200 stipend. ripienochoir.org.uk/join-us/choral-scholarship/

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

That might be because I’m writing about Renaissance gender bias

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Reform has lost 11 councillors and 2 MPs in a matter of months… and when I say ‘lost’ I mean, they’ve quit following rows, impropriety or inability to do their jobs. So, if Brexit weren’t proof enough, then this barrelling shitshow should confirm forever that they should be nowhere near govt.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

We’re already knee-deep in sources for ornamentation and continuo realisation! We’re all challenging our approaches to Historical Performance with this album, and can’t wait to share our work from this Autumn!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Among many the bizzarre (some terrifying) questions people apparently needed answers to in 1474: ‘why it is better to have a thick neck than a thin one’.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

'AI-generated reviews often suffer from five key weaknesses. They rely on vague...language. They misrepresent the paper’s scope....They flag issues that have already been addressed. They exhibit inconsistent or contradictory logic. And they lack the...nuance of a thoughtful human reviewer.' 1/2

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My paper was probably reviewed by AI – and that’s a serious problem

Our paper was rejected on the basis of reviewer comments that were vague, formulaic, often irrelevant and occasionally inaccurate, says Seongjin Hong

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Stopped to have a chat with a lady handing out postcards for a new church on the way to play the organ this morning. Asking her about it, it transpired that this should actually read ‘A church for people who believe women shouldn’t be in any position of authority, anywhere, ever’.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Four years on from Sarah Everard’s murder. We often leave flowers on Clapham Common at this time of year, but this is the first time someone’s memorialised all the women who’ve had their lives taken in similar circumstances since.

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Musica Antica Rotherhithe @musicaantica.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We’re adding an oratorio not performed since 1669 to the seasonal mix of music on offer next month! Poster courtesy of Durer (with a lot of editing…) #earlymodern #earlymusic #classicalmusic #opera #lent #baroque #se16 #rotherhithe

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Jonathan Clinch @jonathanclinch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🎶💷 www.musicabritannica.org.uk/MBRecAward.h...

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Join @musicaantica.bsky.social for an exploration of realms of unconsciousness through testimonies & 17thC music in the UK's oldest surviving hospital chapel. A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre. 📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm 📍Guy's Hospital Chapel 🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...

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Concert | Musica Antica Rotherhithe: L'Elisio, or Elysium | Continuo Connect

Musica Antica perform music by Stefano Landi, Luigi Rossi and Michelangelo Falvetti alongside powerful testimonies from people who have awoken from comas.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

As Trump’s circus distracts our media, keep in mind the horrific crimes the IDF is committing, with no accountability, daily www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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Israel kills two women, including pregnant 23-year-old, in West Bank raid

Two killed by Israel in Nur Shams camp, near Tulkarem, as military intensifes West Bank attacks.

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Leonora @toomuchsinging.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Excited to learn from an email today that @musicaantica.bsky.social will be recording their first album later this year. They're a fantastic outfit, and I really should trek over to Rotherhithe more often. Here are a couple of them performing some French gorgeousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIN...

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Jean-Baptiste de Bousset: Pourquoy doux Rossignol

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Musica Antica Rotherhithe @musicaantica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A brand new piece of theatre for our first event of 2025! Powerful spoken word and beautiful music by Rossi, Landi and Falvetti, all in the oldest surviving hospital chapel in the UK. Tickets via our website!

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Musica Antica Rotherhithe @musicaantica.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Bluesky-friendly clip of the first of our latest videos - Marenzio’s lovely ‘Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte’.

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Jonathan Clinch @jonathanclinch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

👇🏼Just signed. Please join me... 👇🏼 If you destroyed anything else this valuable you'd be locked up or sectioned... chng.it/2H7ZZcykJR

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SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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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 Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Whether you song professionally or for fun, if you’re interested in joining us next month do come, and tell anyone you sing with! Student tickets for £2.

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eakmankate.bsky.social @eakmankate.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is leadership. Thank you Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde, for speaking for those who cannot, or fear to, speak for themselves.

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Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

CfP Medieval and Renaissance Music Conf 2025, 30 June- 4 July at Northumbria, Newcastle & Durham. All topics welcome, but themes incl. borders, migration, ideas of north, Gibbons, Palestrina, materiality, editing, popular trads. Deadline 31 Jan. www.medren2025.co.uk/cfp #earlymodern #musicology

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MedRen2025 - CfP

From 30 June to 4 July 2025, the universities of Newcastle, Durham, and Northumbria will host the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. We warmly welcome proposals from across the entire ...

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