Andy Bull
@f-in-darke.bsky.social
Has PhD on medieval Scottish music, is now in a records job. Occasionally plays violin, has cats and rabbits. Generally interested in anything early Scottish. He/him, queer. Mastodon @[email protected] Twitter F_in_Darke
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📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
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To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
🧵1/4
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
🧵1/4
To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber.
We're offering:
• 3 micro-commissions of £750
• 1 main commission of £1,500
🧵1/4
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The Royal Engineers Museum, Kent, said staff were "devastated" by the destruction of the sketches from World War Two. The collection included technical drawings and plans, some related to the design and construction of the D-Day Mulberry harbours. #archives #museum 🗃️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Royal Engineers Museum, Kent, said staff were "devastated" by the destruction of the sketches from World War Two. The collection included technical drawings and plans, some related to the design and construction of the D-Day Mulberry harbours. #archives #museum 🗃️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New Discover page I wrote looking at momentoes of the First and Second World Wars to accompany our current exhibition "Maps: Memories from the Second World War" at the National War Museum, Edinburgh www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
Souvenirs of service: Mementoes from the First and Second World Wars | National Museums Scotland
We all collect souvenirs throughout our lives connected to different people, places and events. Whether this is items from our childhood, holidays and trav
www.nms.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New Discover page I wrote looking at momentoes of the First and Second World Wars to accompany our current exhibition "Maps: Memories from the Second World War" at the National War Museum, Edinburgh www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
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Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.
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If you’re wondering what the funny little marks over the text are, the answer is an early form medieval music notation.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you’re wondering what the funny little marks over the text are, the answer is an early form medieval music notation.
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from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness
Choose your preferred music service
concertocaledonia.ffm.to
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
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Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
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Our next @royalmusical.bsky.social colloquia features Dr Adriana Minu – @uofglasgow.bsky.social – who will give a presentation titled 'Sensing Sonic Difference: How Does an ADHD Body Do Composition?’.
📆 Tue 4 November
🕣 5:15pm
🏛️ ARC, Room 237C
gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic
📆 Tue 4 November
🕣 5:15pm
🏛️ ARC, Room 237C
gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our next @royalmusical.bsky.social colloquia features Dr Adriana Minu – @uofglasgow.bsky.social – who will give a presentation titled 'Sensing Sonic Difference: How Does an ADHD Body Do Composition?’.
📆 Tue 4 November
🕣 5:15pm
🏛️ ARC, Room 237C
gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic
📆 Tue 4 November
🕣 5:15pm
🏛️ ARC, Room 237C
gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic
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Happy Halloween!
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happy Halloween!
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post!
www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...
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Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.
scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
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Recognition of Palestine is welcome, even if it's decades overdue.
But it can't be just symbolic. It must be followed by robust international action, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions, to make Palestine's statehood and security a reality.
But it can't be just symbolic. It must be followed by robust international action, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions, to make Palestine's statehood and security a reality.
Good. But this must only be the first step.
It doesn't end Labour's complicity in the ongoing atrocities in Palestine.
UK-made weapons are used, UK forces train Israel's army, and Israel's president is welcomed to Downing Street.
We urgently need an end to the genocide.
It doesn't end Labour's complicity in the ongoing atrocities in Palestine.
UK-made weapons are used, UK forces train Israel's army, and Israel's president is welcomed to Downing Street.
We urgently need an end to the genocide.
BREAKING NEWS: Canada, UK and Australia say they recognize a Palestinian state as part of efforts to pile pressure on Israel over Gaza. Follow live updates:
https://cnn.it/3VtaMRI
https://cnn.it/3VtaMRI
September 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Recognition of Palestine is welcome, even if it's decades overdue.
But it can't be just symbolic. It must be followed by robust international action, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions, to make Palestine's statehood and security a reality.
But it can't be just symbolic. It must be followed by robust international action, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions, to make Palestine's statehood and security a reality.
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency
Figure 8 Recording Residency 2025 — Trans Music Archive
www.transmusicarchive.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency
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It's a fine morning when the venerable xkcd covers a point I've been making for years, along with a fair few others. Acafandom is A Thing, scholars are fans and vice versa. This is neither a denigration of academic work, nor an "improper" valuation of fandom.
![Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicu5eycow24bnuslaj3ehng5icy7svqinod2ytinobhbnjveyblbq@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's a fine morning when the venerable xkcd covers a point I've been making for years, along with a fair few others. Acafandom is A Thing, scholars are fans and vice versa. This is neither a denigration of academic work, nor an "improper" valuation of fandom.
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You can support us via our crowdfunder: pledges can be vanilla take-my-money, or you can reserve signed copies of the CD in its deluxe, beautiful rock'n'roll packaging, and even signed copies of my books (I know, I know, but you have to make them *special*). 3/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
Musica Secreta's new album for 2025: Ricordanze
Help us fund our eleventh recording and our second self-release - Ricordanze: a record of love - of music from a sixteenth-century convent.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
You can support us via our crowdfunder: pledges can be vanilla take-my-money, or you can reserve signed copies of the CD in its deluxe, beautiful rock'n'roll packaging, and even signed copies of my books (I know, I know, but you have to make them *special*). 3/ www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
St Abbs, saint of ripped gym bros
St Irling, patron saint towns in the central belt of Scotland.
St Oner is the patron saint of hippies
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
St Abbs, saint of ripped gym bros
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Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
June 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2
Book launch this Monday, online and in Glasgow! "Ì Chaluim Chille: Interdisciplinary studies on Columba and Iona on the 1500th anniversary of the birth of the saint", alongside "Iona’s Namescape: Investigations and Reflections" and the Iona Place-Name Map. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ionas-name...
Iona's Namescape: Launch Event
The launch of new resources related to the Iona's Namescape Project at the University of Glasgow
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Book launch this Monday, online and in Glasgow! "Ì Chaluim Chille: Interdisciplinary studies on Columba and Iona on the 1500th anniversary of the birth of the saint", alongside "Iona’s Namescape: Investigations and Reflections" and the Iona Place-Name Map. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ionas-name...
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Hé, mes mecs, musiciens baroques!
Looking for material for a programme on the high seas? This is something else. @passamezzo.bsky.social know anyone who would be interested? Allez-y!
Looking for material for a programme on the high seas? This is something else. @passamezzo.bsky.social know anyone who would be interested? Allez-y!
Or this from Robert Bouthillier and Éva Guillorel. www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ra...
I think it’s just astonishing that we can study 18th century francophone oral/literate culture through the materials seized by British ships
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I think it’s just astonishing that we can study 18th century francophone oral/literate culture through the materials seized by British ships
🗃️
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Hé, mes mecs, musiciens baroques!
Looking for material for a programme on the high seas? This is something else. @passamezzo.bsky.social know anyone who would be interested? Allez-y!
Looking for material for a programme on the high seas? This is something else. @passamezzo.bsky.social know anyone who would be interested? Allez-y!
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It's time for me to embarrass myself by putting this out there: if your college or university in the greater Los Angeles area needs an instructor for anything to do with music history or medieval studies, I'm available to teach this fall.
June 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's time for me to embarrass myself by putting this out there: if your college or university in the greater Los Angeles area needs an instructor for anything to do with music history or medieval studies, I'm available to teach this fall.
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Historian here, holder of multiple degrees, previous holder of RA posts, co-author of book, journal articles, numerous essays and book reviews - attributes and skills seemingly unwanted by most employers. Seeks freelance work, writing, editing, researching, etc, in pursuit of paying bills.
May 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Historian here, holder of multiple degrees, previous holder of RA posts, co-author of book, journal articles, numerous essays and book reviews - attributes and skills seemingly unwanted by most employers. Seeks freelance work, writing, editing, researching, etc, in pursuit of paying bills.
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This is absolutely dreadful news for anyone interested in musical instrument making in the UK. Newark is the place to study for many aspirant makers & I am not sure there would be a replacement if it went; harming these crafts in the UK.
May 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This is absolutely dreadful news for anyone interested in musical instrument making in the UK. Newark is the place to study for many aspirant makers & I am not sure there would be a replacement if it went; harming these crafts in the UK.
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A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).
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“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked Trebeard and he said hrum hoom burárum
May 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked Trebeard and he said hrum hoom burárum