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
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.
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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.
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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
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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 📖 ⬇️
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Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This morning at the Remembrance Sunday service at our parish church, I read Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This morning at the Remembrance Sunday service at our parish church, I read Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
It is an excoriatingly angry poem and I delivered it as such.
If what war does to human beings, especially the young, does not make you incandescently angry there is something wrong.
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Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
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
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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A white journalist at a white BBC has made what looks like a hit piece about a white writer charged with racism by a number of writers of colour. The twist? The BBC attacks the writers of colour.
Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.
Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A white journalist at a white BBC has made what looks like a hit piece about a white writer charged with racism by a number of writers of colour. The twist? The BBC attacks the writers of colour.
Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.
Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.
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Tired, angry, at the news from Nottingham & the assault on humanities. My programme is already clobbered, but I spoke with BBC about it. Not (likely) to reverse our decision, but bc other departments are also under this gun. It's here, & my students spoke wonderfully. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tired, angry, at the news from Nottingham & the assault on humanities. My programme is already clobbered, but I spoke with BBC about it. Not (likely) to reverse our decision, but bc other departments are also under this gun. It's here, & my students spoke wonderfully. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My teenager is whistling "Don't Worry Be Happy" pitch perfectly, with cool improvisation, and I don't DARE tell him how great it is in case he never does it again.
a red heart with the words `` my heart '' on it .
ALT: a red heart with the words `` my heart '' on it .
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November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My teenager is whistling "Don't Worry Be Happy" pitch perfectly, with cool improvisation, and I don't DARE tell him how great it is in case he never does it again.
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Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
I am listening to Red Heat, by @alexvont.bsky.social, and I am shocked by how shitty people the male protagonists of political events in Latin America and the Caribbean were in the cold war. And the idea of how bad Che Guevara must have smelt is chasing me in nightmares
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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@kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9–12 April 2026, on the theme Ethnomusicology and the Present.
Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov.
bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...
Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov.
bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...
Ethnomusicology and The Present | British Forum for Ethnomusicology
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October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9–12 April 2026, on the theme Ethnomusicology and the Present.
Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov.
bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...
Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov.
bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...
Katherine: I cannot work in bed a second longer. You need walkies and I have to get to London.
Whippet: zzzz
Whippet: zzzz
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Katherine: I cannot work in bed a second longer. You need walkies and I have to get to London.
Whippet: zzzz
Whippet: zzzz
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
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A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one