Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
Although I have thoroughly rejected the evangelical Christianity I grew up in, it annoys the crap out of me when the media gets this wrong.
IT'S EVANGELICALISM @theguardian.com NOT EVANGELISM.
It's possible to be an evangelist without being evangelical and vv 🤬
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
IT'S EVANGELICALISM @theguardian.com NOT EVANGELISM.
It's possible to be an evangelist without being evangelical and vv 🤬
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics?
Powerful Christian figures are emerging in Britain but there are important differences from the US, where evangelism has fuelled Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Although I have thoroughly rejected the evangelical Christianity I grew up in, it annoys the crap out of me when the media gets this wrong.
IT'S EVANGELICALISM @theguardian.com NOT EVANGELISM.
It's possible to be an evangelist without being evangelical and vv 🤬
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
IT'S EVANGELICALISM @theguardian.com NOT EVANGELISM.
It's possible to be an evangelist without being evangelical and vv 🤬
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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#Ethelsmyth was far from the first British woman to stage an opera. Ida Walter, who had studied at the RAM, staged her four act work Florian in London, 1886. The plot was panned, but many praised the music:
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December 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Ethelsmyth was far from the first British woman to stage an opera. Ida Walter, who had studied at the RAM, staged her four act work Florian in London, 1886. The plot was panned, but many praised the music:
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Acts of injustice done
between the setting and the rising sun
in history lie like bones, each one
W H Auden
between the setting and the rising sun
in history lie like bones, each one
W H Auden
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Acts of injustice done
between the setting and the rising sun
in history lie like bones, each one
W H Auden
between the setting and the rising sun
in history lie like bones, each one
W H Auden
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Genuinely what are people like Ed West doing with their lives? Go to Wigmore Hall, go to the movies, go to Koko, go to the Vortex Jazz Club, go see an orchestra, go see the Last Dinner Party...it ought to cure you out of having this weird, unnatural reaction to your fellow citizens.
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Genuinely what are people like Ed West doing with their lives? Go to Wigmore Hall, go to the movies, go to Koko, go to the Vortex Jazz Club, go see an orchestra, go see the Last Dinner Party...it ought to cure you out of having this weird, unnatural reaction to your fellow citizens.
This event next week, with THE expert on the 18th century minuet, will be so much fun!
Come and hear the minuet music that would have been played at social gatherings during Jane Austen's time, and learn the basic steps for the minuet.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/jane-...
Come and hear the minuet music that would have been played at social gatherings during Jane Austen's time, and learn the basic steps for the minuet.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/jane-...
Jane Austen's Minuets | King's College London
Come and hear the minuet music that would have been played at social gatherings during Jane Austen's time, and learn the basic steps for the minuet.
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This event next week, with THE expert on the 18th century minuet, will be so much fun!
Come and hear the minuet music that would have been played at social gatherings during Jane Austen's time, and learn the basic steps for the minuet.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/jane-...
Come and hear the minuet music that would have been played at social gatherings during Jane Austen's time, and learn the basic steps for the minuet.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/jane-...
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I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
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"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
This kind of bullying - for bullying is what it is - makes me extremely angry.
The more I think about this, the worse it feels. Richard Dunstan, that "good friend" of Sex Matters, is suggesting I enjoyed being raped as a child.
I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
December 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This kind of bullying - for bullying is what it is - makes me extremely angry.
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
Not OK.
A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Not OK.
😱 I did not know this! The late, the great Tom Stoppard RIP
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
😱 I did not know this! The late, the great Tom Stoppard RIP
OK listen up everybody. I went to the South Asian Symphony Orchestra concert tonight in Bangalore. They performed selections and arrangements from Bizet, Diksitar, Ilaiyaraaja and Shankar-Jaikishen, followed by Beethoven’s 9th. All performers South Asian. They were EXCELLENT.
I went full diva 😁
I went full diva 😁
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
OK listen up everybody. I went to the South Asian Symphony Orchestra concert tonight in Bangalore. They performed selections and arrangements from Bizet, Diksitar, Ilaiyaraaja and Shankar-Jaikishen, followed by Beethoven’s 9th. All performers South Asian. They were EXCELLENT.
I went full diva 😁
I went full diva 😁
I really am having the best time in Bangalore!
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I really am having the best time in Bangalore!
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This is incredibly grim
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is incredibly grim
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i’m so happy for him
I am actually … not sure what “French-fry restaurant” translates to in British English?
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I am actually … not sure what “French-fry restaurant” translates to in British English?
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
So I missed my connection and find myself for the second time in my life, and the second time this year, on the ground in Dubai.
Not my kind of place, but…I don’t HATE it?
(I’m on the early afternoon flight. Bangalore here I come)
Not my kind of place, but…I don’t HATE it?
(I’m on the early afternoon flight. Bangalore here I come)
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
So I missed my connection and find myself for the second time in my life, and the second time this year, on the ground in Dubai.
Not my kind of place, but…I don’t HATE it?
(I’m on the early afternoon flight. Bangalore here I come)
Not my kind of place, but…I don’t HATE it?
(I’m on the early afternoon flight. Bangalore here I come)
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Things my street WhatsApp has helped with this year: jumpstarts, missing coats, upcycled crafts, muddy paths, tree-planting, a village green application, toy clear-outs, scout fundraisers, co-ordinated objections to slum landlord plans...
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Things my street WhatsApp has helped with this year: jumpstarts, missing coats, upcycled crafts, muddy paths, tree-planting, a village green application, toy clear-outs, scout fundraisers, co-ordinated objections to slum landlord plans...
So I’ve been travelling to India regularly for nearly 30 years now. And today I’m heading for Bangalore for the very first time!
I won’t have much time, but what should I do and see?
I won’t have much time, but what should I do and see?
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
So I’ve been travelling to India regularly for nearly 30 years now. And today I’m heading for Bangalore for the very first time!
I won’t have much time, but what should I do and see?
I won’t have much time, but what should I do and see?
Trying to work out whether I need a shawl to go to Bangalore in November, and if so whether I should steal my husband's beautiful denim-blue and white pashmina, or just...buy another one when I'm there
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Trying to work out whether I need a shawl to go to Bangalore in November, and if so whether I should steal my husband's beautiful denim-blue and white pashmina, or just...buy another one when I'm there
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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When almost half of over 150 institutions across an entire economic sector cannot balance their books, it really isn't their individual fault...
here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When almost half of over 150 institutions across an entire economic sector cannot balance their books, it really isn't their individual fault...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Instead of turning university laboratories up and down the country, lying empty, with their expert trained staff twiddling thumbs at home, into testing facilities.
This could have been done so much better and gor so much less.
This could have been done so much better and gor so much less.
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Instead of turning university laboratories up and down the country, lying empty, with their expert trained staff twiddling thumbs at home, into testing facilities.
This could have been done so much better and gor so much less.
This could have been done so much better and gor so much less.