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
😱 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.
Heading up to Edinburgh College of Art this morning to deliver a lecture at 5, below!
In the meantime I'm on very delayed trains, so been checking in with my poor parents on their way to be with my aunt in her loss, and fielding TEAMS meetings on my phone.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
In the meantime I'm on very delayed trains, so been checking in with my poor parents on their way to be with my aunt in her loss, and fielding TEAMS meetings on my phone.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
History of Art Research Seminar Series | Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield
Keeper of the Flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the Last of the Mughal Emperors
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Heading up to Edinburgh College of Art this morning to deliver a lecture at 5, below!
In the meantime I'm on very delayed trains, so been checking in with my poor parents on their way to be with my aunt in her loss, and fielding TEAMS meetings on my phone.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
In the meantime I'm on very delayed trains, so been checking in with my poor parents on their way to be with my aunt in her loss, and fielding TEAMS meetings on my phone.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...
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A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
The law has failed a woman and her child – fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuser’s name. It’s time to change the system.
goodlawproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
I have just heard that my uncle, my mother's brother, has been killed in a tractor accident. He was alone and was found by his grandson.
I have absolutely no idea what to do with this absolutely dreadful news. His poor family.
He is survived by his wife, four adult children and many grandchildren.
I have absolutely no idea what to do with this absolutely dreadful news. His poor family.
He is survived by his wife, four adult children and many grandchildren.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I have just heard that my uncle, my mother's brother, has been killed in a tractor accident. He was alone and was found by his grandson.
I have absolutely no idea what to do with this absolutely dreadful news. His poor family.
He is survived by his wife, four adult children and many grandchildren.
I have absolutely no idea what to do with this absolutely dreadful news. His poor family.
He is survived by his wife, four adult children and many grandchildren.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
So cold today, but such beautiful light!
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So cold today, but such beautiful light!
Me: Hang on, I am trying to read my student's PhD thesis!
Whippet: Don't care that's my chair also I'm cold
Whippet: Don't care that's my chair also I'm cold
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Me: Hang on, I am trying to read my student's PhD thesis!
Whippet: Don't care that's my chair also I'm cold
Whippet: Don't care that's my chair also I'm cold
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
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This man was trafficked into Britain, in ways which the government would now use to make him subject to deportation. According to a leading political pundit, he brought with him ancestral violence, which means that he *and his British-born children* should be expelled.
This man.
This man.
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This man was trafficked into Britain, in ways which the government would now use to make him subject to deportation. According to a leading political pundit, he brought with him ancestral violence, which means that he *and his British-born children* should be expelled.
This man.
This man.
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👏 Congratulations to Professor @katherineschof8.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s prestigious Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book 'Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858' @universitypress.cambridge.org 📖 ⬇️
Professor Katherine Schofield wins the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award | King's College London
Professor Katherine Butler Schofield receives the Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book on music and musicians of the late Mughal period.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
👏 Congratulations to Professor @katherineschof8.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s prestigious Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book 'Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858' @universitypress.cambridge.org 📖 ⬇️