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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come work with me on 'singing and the human spirit'. We are hiring a 0.5 research fellow to start in January 2027 for 18 months. You may work remotely with occasional meetings in Birmingham or Oxford. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Research Fellow - School of History and Cultures - 107842S26 - Grade 7

This is a 0.5 FTE Research Fellow post for a fixed term of 18 months. The successful candidate will join an established research team at the University of Birmingham, working closely with Principal In...

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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's now just over 3 weeks to get your abstracts in for this CFP 😱

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Research Fellow - School of History and Cultures - 107842S26 - Grade 7

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Reasons to Sing’ was everything I had hoped it would be. Such amazing folks I’m privileged to now know doing such meaningful work.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Deadline for registration has been extended to 4 Sept! Share! Join us! 🎈https://www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/bham-conf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We’ve been able to extend the deadline until 4 September!

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deadline for registration is 19 August! www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/bham-conf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deadline for registration is 19 August! www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/bham-conf

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

O Yes. Would any man or woman (or anything) desire forming a panel on the 'Cries of London' (or Les Cris de Paris or Cries di Wherever) for SRS 2027 at the Warburg? Or anything related? Any medium, any time in the EM period. Please tag anyone appropriate! rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As part of Jeffrey Skidmore’s final season with @excathedrachoir.bsky.social, we’re hosting a special concert/research event alongside our Singing & Spirituality conference. Hear some of Jeffrey’s most-loved choral works and take part in a study on audience responses to music. 🎶 bit.ly/beautybham

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Congratulations Shirley! If anyone would like to review this for sonancejournal.com let me know! #earlymodern 🗃️

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About the Journal | Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Another ridiculous but amazing choir project to raise money for St Mary Mags Oxford (home to a long tradition of early music excellence and history). If you can spare a fiver it would be most appreciated. 💸https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/tallisinwonderland 👂https://bit.ly/TallisMags

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Tallis in Wonderland

The Complete Choral works of Thomas Tallis, all performed live on Saturday April 25th 2026 in aid of the Church and Musicians of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Music reshapes how we experience time, space, and each other. This symposium mines neuroscience, history, and philosophy to argue that music’s beauty can create profound bonds of communal belonging and moments of personal transcendence. With @spparkle.bsky.social et al.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

⚠️Register before 12 April ⚠️ Marking Music: the Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe 11–12 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social & online For scholars of music, book history & related to explore how people engaged with books containing music in early modern period. www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...

Painting by Joos van Winghe (circa 1600) entitled 'Elegant company, playing with torchlight'. Group of musicians playing lute, flute, harpsichord and a singer, with other instruments on a table in the foreground.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

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Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A **new** and **permanent** job in US Politics at the RAI. An exciting opportunity to help design and launch a new one year Master’s program in US politics, and join our intellectually vibrant (and fun) multidisciplinary dept dedicated to the study of the US and its place in the wider world.

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Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics at University of Oxford

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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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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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Writing about music close to your heart can be a joy. Writing about music close to your heart with one of your amazing pals is 100x better. Katie Bank, Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Intermedial Afterlives of the Arma Christi in Orlando Gibbons’s ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’, Music and Letters

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Intermedial Afterlives of the Arma Christi in Orlando Gibbons’s ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’

ABSTRACT. We propose that Orlando Gibbons’s consort anthem ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’ is linked to a wider phenomenon in visual culture surrounding t

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...

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SRS Book Series Interviews: Katie Bank – Society for Renaissance Studies

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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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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...

The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE, the image shows black embroidery of plants and animals on a stained cream linen background.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

CfP: ‘Reasons to Sing’: Singing, spirituality, and the search for meaning We want this event to be really interdisciplinary - do spread the word. www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/singing if this is too tiny to read.

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Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.

On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University.

This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges.

The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole.

As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.

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Mark Lewis @marklewi5.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It was a pleasure to present at this event a few days ago - my first academic paper delivered 📄😅 Thank you @spparkle.bsky.social and Peter Auger for organising, to the other presenters for some terrific papers, and to those who listened to me and asked questions - very much appreciated!

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Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 (Birmingham) @bhamcrems.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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Insights into current research into recreational materials and activities in early modern England.

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Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 (Birmingham) @bhamcrems.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Last few days to get in your abstracts! Popular Recreations in Early Modern England with keynote by Prof Christopher Marsh! www.katiebankmusic.com/post/call-fo...

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....

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Public Engagement Scheme – Society for Renaissance Studies

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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Same, little pepper, same

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The ByrdCentral website will be going soon. As our last farewell, we wanted to share with you some stats from our education outreach project on the life and music of William Byrd, 'Reasons to Sing' 🎊 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project... Thank you for following us on our ByrdNyrd journey!

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Project Summary: Byrd's 'Reasons to Sing'

In 2023, we celebrated the quatercentenary of English renaissance composer William Byrd. Thanks to generous grants from Arts Council England and the Stile Antico Foundation (with additional support fr...

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.

fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today's office. Rehearsing Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at #bostonmanorhouse www.ticketsource.co.uk/boston-manor... #earlymodern #earlymusic @beyondshakes.bsky.social @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I guess most grant proposals work out like this

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!

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Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 (Birmingham) @bhamcrems.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!

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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We've recently updated our Public Engagement Toolkits. Our free, downloadable PDF guides are full of useful ideas and tips for putting on a successful #PublicEngagement event. Toolkit topics include inclusion, partnerships, formats, budget, audiences and more!

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Toolkits

Toolkits full of useful tips and tricks to help you put on a successful public engagement event or activity

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed.

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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

See it if you can. It was super fun.

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Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).

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CHORALLY @chorally.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Apply by 19 Feb 2025: Trusts & Foundations Manager, London Youth Choirs, UK @londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social www.chorally.co/c/find-jobs/...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

in case you missed it during the work week: registration is now open! 🤗

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Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are: The jolly old dog as he lay in his den. Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall? A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall Any ideas #earlymodern?

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