Kate Arnold
@dulcimerkate.bsky.social
Musician/Composer/Electro-medievalist.
PhD. Arabic poetry, Old French song.
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
PhD. Arabic poetry, Old French song.
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Pinned
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
First non-PhD-related reading in a while. It's fascinating and contains a lot more detail than you might ever need to know about croissants and croissant-adjacent topics. But that's A GOOD THING.
#croissants
#croissants
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
First non-PhD-related reading in a while. It's fascinating and contains a lot more detail than you might ever need to know about croissants and croissant-adjacent topics. But that's A GOOD THING.
#croissants
#croissants
Today, being St Lucy's Day and the Start of the Solar Weirdness, is the first day I can put my decorations up.
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today, being St Lucy's Day and the Start of the Solar Weirdness, is the first day I can put my decorations up.
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
This year it is also my first day as a Dr.
#medieval #history #music #saintlucy #PhD #Christmas #midwinter #Yuletide
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Reposted by Kate Arnold
This will be good, please do share!
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This will be good, please do share!
This will be good, please do share!
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This will be good, please do share!
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV)
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Angelo adorante volto verso sinistra di Giovanni da Fiesole detto Beato Angelico (terzo quarto sec. XV)
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
Galleria Sabauda, Torino
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Reposted by Kate Arnold
this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam
Reposted by Kate Arnold
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thank you to all who bought 'Complaint' on #BandcampFriday and since. Again I've been delighted by the surprisingly wide appeal of electro-medieval hammered dulcimer loopery!
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
I'll keep the track available for a little while longer in case anyone missed it:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Portrait of Frances Eaton
(mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart
(mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Portrait of Frances Eaton
(mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart
(mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart
A reminder, for anyone out there who has just woken up!
My track 'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening/streaming/download on my Bandcamp page, for a limited time only:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#BandcampFriday #medieval #experimental #electro #music
My track 'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening/streaming/download on my Bandcamp page, for a limited time only:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#BandcampFriday #medieval #experimental #electro #music
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A reminder, for anyone out there who has just woken up!
My track 'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening/streaming/download on my Bandcamp page, for a limited time only:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#BandcampFriday #medieval #experimental #electro #music
My track 'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening/streaming/download on my Bandcamp page, for a limited time only:
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#BandcampFriday #medieval #experimental #electro #music
Reposted by Kate Arnold
'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page!
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Get medievalled up this coming #BandcampFriday with not one but TWO special releases!
For a limited time only, I will share 'Complaint', an arrangement of 'A vous amant' by the Chatelain de Coucy (d.1204). Here he is in a 13th-century manuscript, riding off to do knightly deeds and suchlike .. (1/2)
For a limited time only, I will share 'Complaint', an arrangement of 'A vous amant' by the Chatelain de Coucy (d.1204). Here he is in a 13th-century manuscript, riding off to do knightly deeds and suchlike .. (1/2)
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page!
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Rota Fortunae I (EP), by Kate Arnold
4 track album
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page!
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Get medievalled up this coming #BandcampFriday with not one but TWO special releases!
For a limited time only, I will share 'Complaint', an arrangement of 'A vous amant' by the Chatelain de Coucy (d.1204). Here he is in a 13th-century manuscript, riding off to do knightly deeds and suchlike .. (1/2)
For a limited time only, I will share 'Complaint', an arrangement of 'A vous amant' by the Chatelain de Coucy (d.1204). Here he is in a 13th-century manuscript, riding off to do knightly deeds and suchlike .. (1/2)
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
'Complaint (Research Mix)' is now available for listening and streaming/download on the Bandcamp page!
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Here's the direct link: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
Also, the link for the Dark Alchemy release:
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#bandcampfriday #music #medieval
Reposted by Kate Arnold
It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this.
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
Dark Alchemy presents Spirit of Winter volume I, by Dark Alchemy
9 track album
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this.
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this.
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
Dark Alchemy presents Spirit of Winter volume I, by Dark Alchemy
9 track album
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It's all happening today! Dark Alchemy has now released 'Spirit of Winter Vol. I' which includes the live, semi-improvised session we did in the #medieval crypt of St John on the Wall, Bristol last December. Some VERY ancient material on this.
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
darkalchemybristol.bandcamp.com/album/dark-a...
#music
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint. And you could too....
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint. And you could too....
Sounds like me?!
In any case, I think this is pretty important.
In any case, I think this is pretty important.
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Sounds like me?!
In any case, I think this is pretty important.
In any case, I think this is pretty important.
Reposted by Kate Arnold
It's #BandcampFriday and if you haven't yet got that special present for someone, take Gramophone reviewer Ed Breen's advice and snag one of our last few limited-edition double CDs with beautiful artwork and copious liner notes. musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...
Ricordanze: a record of love, by Musica Secreta
31 track album
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's #BandcampFriday and if you haven't yet got that special present for someone, take Gramophone reviewer Ed Breen's advice and snag one of our last few limited-edition double CDs with beautiful artwork and copious liner notes. musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
I love this!
#artcalendar Day 4*:
Perplexity حيرة
Acrylic and gold leaf on hand-cut paper, from 2017.
majnouna.com/portfolio/pe...
*sshhh, don't know how I missed a day but I'll post #5 later today.
Perplexity حيرة
Acrylic and gold leaf on hand-cut paper, from 2017.
majnouna.com/portfolio/pe...
*sshhh, don't know how I missed a day but I'll post #5 later today.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I love this!
Reposted by Kate Arnold
Recent research carried out by the Teaching Medieval Women group supported by NTU, shows that women are critically underrepresented in History assessments in English secondary schools at GCSE and A-Level: theconversation.com/women-are-st...
Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England
Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Recent research carried out by the Teaching Medieval Women group supported by NTU, shows that women are critically underrepresented in History assessments in English secondary schools at GCSE and A-Level: theconversation.com/women-are-st...
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Complaint ('Research Mix'), by Kate Arnold
track by Kate Arnold
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Now live on my Bandcamp page!
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Have a listen and chuck a couple of quid my way if you like it. It's not every day you hear an electro-hammered dulcimer version of a 12th-century knight's lament as he goes off on crusade. Unless you live in my house.
katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/track/compla...
#music
Pretty wild! I don't know whether it makes more or less sense when you're familiar with the Abdel Halim Hafez version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-9...
Kariyat El Fengan
YouTube video by Omar Khorshed - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pretty wild! I don't know whether it makes more or less sense when you're familiar with the Abdel Halim Hafez version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-9...