Amazing that 'UK Research and Innovation' is spending more than a million pounds of taxpayer's money on this project, to denounce & demoralise another little corner of British life a little more -- in this case classical music. Exactly the opposite of what it should be doing.

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With the money spent on this project, one could mount an enviable festival or concert series of British music from this period with top professional performers. Elizabeth Atherton Alexandra Wilson

I'm just going to say it. It's not a culture war re gender / sex. It's a science war.

This abstract bemoans underrepresentation in classical music - what if they'd used the £1,183,769 to fund instrument tuition in inner-city schools instead?

Ian Pace Gotta love how they don't even bother to define that wildly heterogeneous set of historical practices from geographically diverse institutions that they mean for the term "Classical music" to cover.

There are those who can make wonderful music, composers and performers. There are those who can write something really illuminating about music which fascinates them. And there are those who can do neither, and jeer at it for being ‘colonial’, and so on.

Ian Pace Also, there's surely nothing colonialist in the business ventures that gave us the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, right?

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My letter in the Sunday Times today. Sex Matters Professor Alice Sullivan Prof Sophie Scott CBE Akua Reindorf KC Academics For Academic Freedom @umu

Photo of Bauhaus masters in 1928: Marcel Breuer, Gunta Stölzl, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer