@spparkle.bsky.social
music + art in early modern England | Leverhulme Trust ECF @ Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | tech stuff too | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
Poster for conference on beauty with mountains and QR code. Www.canbeautysavetheworld.com
Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.
10.10.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Win up to £1250 for your essay on travel and/or cultural exchange www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... (in spite of the outdated link summary)
19.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0A parent can dream… (or in this case, not).
19.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do say hello if you’re at @srsrensoc.bsky.social Bristol this week! @bhamcrems.bsky.social
02.07.2025 16:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1It 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!
@crems-york.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social @bhamcrems.bsky.social @emeccwarwick.bsky.social ??
04.06.2025 08:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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...
Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....
28.03.2025 16:04 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic
27.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A bell pepper in the fetal position
Same, little pepper, same
26.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 10448 🔁 1839 💬 94 📌 75
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!
Yayyyyy.
24.03.2025 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
a small ceramic sherd with a stylized geometric pattern in blue and white
thumbnail painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.
🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.
18.03.2025 03:03 — 👍 43 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
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
I guess most grant proposals work out like this
04.03.2025 22:10 — 👍 179 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 3Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!
03.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!
10.02.2025 11:47 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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!
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.
26.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 51 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 9
Logo of Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (within which sits the Centre for Early Modern Studies)
Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
21.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1See it if you can. It was super fun.
20.02.2025 09:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m so sorry. Welcome to the world where one has to not get the best rate and spend more of our meagre budgets just to satisfy the requirements even if the same place is on another site for less!
19.02.2025 16:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Excellent.
19.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Honestly been considering LASIK. I rarely wear my glasses anymore all day because small human grabs them.
18.02.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Same. -6 here!
18.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).
18.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apply by 19 Feb 2025: Trusts & Foundations Manager, London Youth Choirs, UK
@londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social
www.chorally.co/c/find-jobs/...
in case you missed it during the work week: registration is now open! 🤗
16.02.2025 12:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Puzzling 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?
