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Dr Karen McAulay
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Musicologist Historian, RCS & IASH @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Fellow. Social History of Amateur Music-Making & Scottish National Identity: Scotland's Printed Music 1880-1951 (Routledge). https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/ Profiles are informative!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · Jul 29
Amazon reminds me of a book I might be interested in.
But I've read it.
Indeed, I WROTE it! @routledgehistory.bsky.social
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 51m
The librarian in me agrees. The scholar says, Get the Stuff no matter what ...
Old music piled high. One archival box for sheet music.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1h
Parents have inevitably had a long time becoming themselves. They can't change.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1h
Is there anyone asking you where you are going to put them 🤔
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 3h
Just looked outside. Nope, the neighbourhood premature Christmassers haven't started their competition yet.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 15h
Looking at performing colleagues' #biographies, they look so vibrant and exciting. My scholarly one felt rather - well, dull.
I can't change what I haven't been, but I thought I could do better job with what I have, so I've updated my blog #bio. It'll do! karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/my-bio/
My Bio
Dr Karen Elisabeth McAulay, BA, MA, LTCL, DipLib, PGCert, FHEA, FRCS, FRHistS I’m a musicologist of Scottish music history. Since July 2024, I’ve worked part-time as a post doctoral res…
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d
It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.
Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela
US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 18h
I'm much distracted. I can't find online details of, or emails about, a CD that I know is somewhere at home.
Wait till you get home then, I hear you say. Well, yes. I'm just impatient 😒 and distracted!
a man in a striped shirt says " i keep telling myself don t get distracted "
ALT: a man in a striped shirt says " i keep telling myself don t get distracted "
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 18h
This won't do! Which chant? Which office? Which day?!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 19h
Milngavie!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 19h
But did it help?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 19h
Wow! I just went for a cosy knitted number 😉
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 20h
Completed a grant application (I don't like the expression, #GrantWriting - it's not as though you literally 'write' the £££!) - anyway, after that mental exercise, I surely deserve cakes and treats. But alas, I'm on a diet, so I'll have a latte and consider myself treated.
Yippee, it's the weekend!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 20h
They didn't know they were born, did they?!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 20h
Ladies and Their #Harps: the Maclean-Clephane Sisters of Torloisk, Mull (and Edinburgh) karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/10/10/l...
Ladies and Their Harps: the Maclean-Clephane Sisters of Torloisk, Mull (and Edinburgh)
You know how you buy a new car, and suddenly everyone seems to be driving the same white Fiat 500? It’s the same with research topics. I researched Gaelic song-collectors Anna and Margaret Ma…
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Sure, that counts as ... impact ...?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Look, just give us an update on your progress, say, next year ...
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Janet Few @janetfew.bsky.social · 1d
Why History Matters – the nearest I’ll come to a political post

I deliberately don’t post about politics because I don’t like confrontation but remaining completely silent makes me part of the problem. I don’t have allegiance to a particular political party, although there is currently one that I…
Why History Matters – the nearest I’ll come to a political post
I deliberately don’t post about politics because I don’t like confrontation but remaining completely silent makes me part of the problem. I don’t have allegiance to a particular political party, although there is currently one that I would never vote for. This is not a political post but it certainly touches on current affairs. When I was interviewed for college, part of the interview process was to write an essay on ‘why study history?’.
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 1d
Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Ah, there's the difference. My research isn't harrowing!
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d
What's your escape from harrowing research🤔
Catriona cooks, arranges & takes photographs of food to escape 19th century death. 👇
BBC News - I photograph food to escape my harrowing research
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I photograph food to escape my harrowing research
Catriona Byers is an expert on 19th Century morgue who also works as a food stylist.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Driving must really have been scary, with so many tanked up motorists!
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 2d
"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
And on pretty crockery. How lovely 😍
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
I was just about to comment, maybe it's my destiny!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Searching for #singing in Regional Ethnology of Scotland project (RESP) @uoe-llc.bsky.social
Distracted by an interview with the son of a gamekeeper revealing a [wartime?!] diet of 'hare, rabbit, salmon, trout, pigeon, pheasant, haggis', homemade butter, pig, mutton, hams, scones, pancakes. Wow!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
My #cacti have reclaimed their windowsill, in anticipation of their houseguests leaving us soon. We have been somewhat over-houseplanted this summer!
My four cacti. The largest is 38 years old. Temporary residents - some of the visiting plants. More visiting houseplants Weird visiting cactus
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent!