Now here’s an idea! University introduces universal basic research funding Over 1,000 professors will get €30,000 a year to spend as they please as a remedy to the low success rates of national and international competitions timeshighereducation.com/news/belgian-u… via Times Higher Education

Humanities faculty should be demanding this kind of salary.

The Illustrated Police News, London, England, December 11, 1869

somehow I hadn't shared this on here yet, but my talk at Nerd Nite London is on YouTube! go forth, learn about Claribel and the popular music of 1860s England! youtu.be/BsbW40YTHvM?fe…

Published today by The Boydell Press!

I've started planning out my poster presentation for Music Library Assn. in a few months! going to get a bit artsy-fartsy with it and play with the idea of "layers" of the historical record - current idea involves gluing and layering text onto sheets of wax paper...

man, when you're working with historical periodicals that have been made full-text searchable via OCR, it really is absolutely worth searching multiple databases that contain the same title(s) because of how badly OCR can mangle words

🎉 We've launched our brand new Repertoire Database! 🎉 Over 20 years in the making, the Hallé is the only UK orchestra to have produced such a database to date! 🧵👇

#otd 30 January 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. The Hallé #thehalle #britishhistory

Kidnappers returning me after I talk about my research for 1 hour

We are delighted to announce that registration for the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (#INCSA), "The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal," is open! Join us: in-csa.com/conference-dur…

Contract signed so I think I can make this public now. OUP will publish my book "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British". I examine British attitudes towards opera, 1920-2020, reveal a forgotten history of popular opera going, and trace the rise of the elitism stereotype.

Today's prescription is Dr De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil as sung by the "Star of the East", Walter Laburnam. Are we all taking our vitamins? #SongsheetSaturday

On 30 May Waterstones Glasgow Argyle St, Graham Watson launches 'The Invention of Charlotte Brontë' - an explosive biography which explores the truths and myths of the English novelist. More info and tickets: waterstones.com/events/graham-… #CharlotteBrontë #NewBooks #Bronte Waterstones

Popping in super briefly to say that if you're not doing anything from 10-11 AM British Standard Time, you should watch Patricia Hammond and me talk about Claribel and perform her songs! durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/92145292015?… Passcode: 566981