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Dr Steph Carter
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Music book historian | Postdoc at Newcastle Music, Heritage, Place project | Archivist, Librarian and Head of Fundraising at Carlisle Cathedral | Northumberland/Cumberland border
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Join us this coming Monday when we start in Shropshire, reimagining musical gems from the archives and rewilding them at Shrewsbury Folk Festival with @nancykerr.bsky.social, the Melrose Quartet and Professor Stephen Rose who leads the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🌟The Song Detectorists are back🌟
Tune into BBC Radio 3 at 9.45pm between Monday 20 October and Friday 24 October to join @matthewbannister.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social @nancykerr.bsky.social the Melrose Quartet, project team, archivists and local historians to discover more musical gold
October 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Love being a part of this amazing team!!
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Second series of the #songdetectorists on its way!
The summer has been a busy time for the project researchers too: cataloguing, presenting at conferences, discussing future publications and recording a second series of the #songdetectorists!
Here we are at Northamptonshire Archives with @matthewbannister.bsky.social and Sarah Bridges
September 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Love my job!!
Wonderful to showcase the 'Music, Heritage, Place' project at the #dcdc25 conference at Durham University and chatting with project partners and GLAMA colleagues.
July 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Out now!!!
🎶 Published this month, The Music Trade in Regional Britain, 1650–1800 explores the breadth, diversity and significance of the commercial music trade and its communities across Britain during the late 17th and 18th centuries. Learn more: buff.ly/VWdF1Xd
June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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🚨New blog alert!🚨 Find out more about the #songdetectorists and radio series here: www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/we-are...
We are The Song Detectorists! — Music, Heritage, Place
Making the BBC Radio 3 series about our project
www.musicheritageplace.uk
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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It's the last episode of The Song Detectorists tonight on Radio 3. What a fabulous time we had criss-crossing England hearing about the music in County Record Offices and especially hearing the wonderful arrangements made by Nancy Kerr for The Melrose Quartet. Tonight it's Henry Atkinson's book.
May 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Just saw my missus in Pick of the Week in the Radio Times! The Song Detectorists airs on BBC Radio 3 at 9:45pm tonight!
May 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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It’s a wonderful listen!
@matthewbannister.bsky.social’s made a brilliant new BBC Radio 3 series with FoF producer @natalie-steed.bsky.social, plus @nancyannfolk.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet – delving into county archives to uncover music from the 17th to 19th centuries

Starts Monday 9:45pm on Radio 3 and BBC Sounds
May 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM