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Dr Karen McAulay
@karenmca.bsky.social
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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 · 2h
Excellent!
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d
Not to mention performing arts! The UK has some of the best talent in the world in film and TV. Not just actors but producers, lighting, ADs, makeup, costume, casting. High-end production companies come from around the world to make stuff here. Performing arts is a *massive industry for Britain*.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 3h
The last phase was particularly unexpected!
Also, I have been researching Thomas Nelson the publisher from the publishing side, but I didn't know printing was such a coveted career above others in Edinburgh.?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 3h
And it's fascinating - a really good read!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 13h
Your lettering is lovely 😍
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 14h
And as for maps ... aren't they fun to do?!
1951 Festival of Britain- printed and sold by a magazine, embroidered by me 2023.
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 14h
Oh, great. I'm not alone!! PhD is about what?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 17h
Does anyone else try to embroidery their research?
#CreativeArts #Embroidery
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Interpreting Research through Textile Arts
If you’ve visited this blog before, you’ll know I research various aspects of Scottish music history, not textile arts.  However,  when I take a break from research, I often take up nee…
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, dear 😞
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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 1d
I spy mermaids playing harps. Chair in Totnes museum.

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Inherited interests - #sewing in my genes! karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/10/08/i...
Interpreting Research through Textile Arts
If you’ve visited this blog before, you’ll know I research various aspects of Scottish music history, not textile arts.  However,  when I take a break from research, I often take up nee…
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
There is no researcher more desperate than a researcher who can only read with one eye, when the screw has fallen out of their glasses on the reading side ...
Mending them wearing old glasses was ... challenging!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Grant-writing. Little grey cells working like crazy!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
(Sipping Americano thoughtfully and gratefully!)
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
One can pay for online appointments privately, I think? Not your OWN GP surgery, assuredly, but I'm sure I heard of such services 🤔
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Oh dear! Doesn't even look tempting ...
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Is it sugary?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
The Fellow sat in her Edinburgh ivory tower ...
It's grant application time, which seems to require a lot of descents to the kitchen for coffee! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Staircase up to IASH office. (Downstairs with empty cup, upstairs refuelled with coffee!)
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, wow!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 1d
#Historians #LocalHistorians Do you do #OralHistories? Curious to know if you use any kind of automated transcription software? What would you recommend? And do you have a favourite recording device?
I'd be very grateful for recommendations, thanks!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting. Not a lot we can do, though, I guess?
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
And there I was, believing that everyone had their work-life-digital life balanced and was just closing their phones at 18.00 ...
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
I've somehow made this house look like some kind of fantasy fairytale. I blame my choice of #embroidery thread!
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
I've been so naughty. FitBit is wagging its finger and insisting I've overeaten, but I SO needed those two ginger nut biscuits 😋
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 2d
Turning into quite a research morning. Great start to the week, attending an online seminar. But then, from the sublime to the ridiculous - a house visit. The ratcatcher says I saw a mouse, not a rat. Phew! Back to my desk, but I have an #earworm, Windmill in Old Amsterdam
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Windmill In Old Amsterdam
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