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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 3d

🤣 yes!!

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Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social · 3d

Really exciting work by our colleagues at @musicheritageplace.bsky.social discovering Purcell manuscripts!

Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 3d

Read about our recent Purcell discoveries!!!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 3d

Read about our recent Purcell discoveries!!!

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 7d

🚨🚨🚨new blog alert🚨🚨🚨
Caro Lesemann-Elliott describes the busy summer the team has had sharing project news at conferences in Birmingham, Durham, Newcastle and Southampton
Read it here:
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/d8w0wz...

Drawing the threads together — Music, Heritage, Place

Caro shares updates on the team’s travels to conferences across England this past summer.

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are looking at an early 18th-century tune book from Thorpe Malsor.

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨🚨🚨new blog alert🚨🚨🚨

@nancykerr.bsky.social describes her experiences as a tutor with the National Youth Folk Ensemble exploring material from the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project thanks to project partner @efdss.bsky.social

Read it here:
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/d8w0wz...

Reviving music heritage with the National Youth Folk Ensemble — Music, Heritage, Place

Nancy Kerr explains her work bringing new life to music from the archives with the National Youth Folk Ensemble

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Sep 5

What an amazing summer of performances and singing workshops across the country showcasing Music Heritage Place discoveries by Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet, including Halsway Manor Folk, Kimpton Folk Festival, @folkbytheoak.bsky.social @warwickfolkfest.bsky.social @shrewsburyfolk.bsky.social

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wonderful to showcase the 'Music, Heritage, Place' project at the #dcdc25 conference at Durham University and chatting with project partners and GLAMA colleagues.

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Jul 21

Absolutely wonderful to hear such lovely feedback about the project: "really inspiring to hear local traditions brought to life", "what the project is doing is of the utmost importance".
Thank you to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, all our partners and project team.

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · Jul 21

A fabulous day at @folkbytheoak.bsky.social for the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project with Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet performing tunes from 17th-century Newcastle and 19th-century Nether Wallop (Hampshire) on the main stage and 150 people singing a 1688 ballad in our workshop

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 18

🚨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

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · May 16

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.

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Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social · May 13

Such a wonderful radio series presented by @MatthewBannister & such a wonderful showcase of awesome research by @royalholloway.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social colleagues … #SongDetectorists 🎶
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Essay - The Song Detectorists - 1. Norfolk - BBC Sounds

Matthew Bannister travels across England finding out about music discovered in archives.

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 16

Join @matthewbannister.bsky.social and @natalie-steed.bsky.social for the last episode of the #songdetectorists on BBCRadio3 at 21:45. We're in Northumberland exploring a 17th-century merchant's tune book at @nlandarchives.bsky.social. Here's a clip by @nancykerr.bsky.social and Melrose Quartet

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Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · May 14

The Cornish carol singing tradition is the focus of tonight’s episode of Matthew’s Radio 3 series “The Song Detectorists”, featuring Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet. Starts at 9:45pm and on BBC Sounds.

@nancyannfolk.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 15

Heading back to the project's beginnings in Hampshire, thanks to @harchivestrust.bsky.social, with Richard Pyle's music book. Listen on BBCRadio3 at 21:45 tonight for some beautiful reimagining of music originally written down and performed in the village of Nether Wallop with @nancykerr.bsky.social

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 14

Tonight's #songdetectorists head to Cornwall to discover the Cornish tradition of carol singing and its migration to Australia in the 19th century. Tune in to BBC Radio 3 at 21:45 with @nancykerr.bsky.social and @matthewbannister.bsky.social

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · May 13

Heard The Song Detectorists last night (Radio 3, The Essay, 21.45), about folk music in archives, and loved it www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Song Detectorists, 1. Norfolk

Matthew Bannister travels across England finding out about music discovered in archives.

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · May 13

The next episode of the Song Detectorists is on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 2145. We're in Wakefield. Meanwhile here's a cracking treat .. the full length version of Nancy Kerr's amazing These Ten Long Years from Epiosde 1 @matthewbannister.bsky.social @musicheritageplace.bsky.social youtu.be/zQcQe0HSwZg

"These Ten Long Years" performed by The Melrose Quartet

YouTube video by Rhubarb Rhubarb

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 13

(very Downton Abbey!!)

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 13

...and the scandal surrounding her mother marrying a baker from Manchester!

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Dr Andrew Frampton @andrewframpton.bsky.social · May 13

Join me and @matthewbannister.bsky.social on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds tonight for ‘The Song Detectorists’ in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, exploring the personal music book of Louisa Winn and her life at Nostell Priory @musicheritageplace.bsky.social

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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social · May 13

In tonight's episode at 21:45 on BBC Radio 3, join us as we venture to Wakefield to explore the personal music book of Louisa Winn and her life at Nostell Priory, with @matthewbannister.bsky.social, @nancykerr.bsky.social, @natalie-steed.bsky.social and the Melrose Quartet

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Matthew Bannister @matthewbannister.bsky.social · May 11

It’s a wonderful listen!

Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com · May 11

@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

Matthew and two archivists looking at an old book of sheet music

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