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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
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
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 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.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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
Katherine: I cannot work in bed a second longer. You need walkies and I have to get to London.

Whippet: zzzz
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I love that the two greatest Anglophone cities of the world are both now run by democratic socialist Muslim men of South Asian descent.

Very here for the first Sadiq–Zohran bilateral ♥️

photo: @bylinetimes.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is powerful stuff: the reasoning behind Pillay’s commission finding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

“Children who were meant to be born from these reproductive specimens will never exist. Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The fabulous detail of fireworks, appropriate to this season of Diwali and Bonfire Night, from Mihr Chand's famous late 18C Lucknow painting Colonel Polier's Nautch.

www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
October 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
He really is the sweetest companion.

Whippet in a cardigan.
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy Diwali to all those celebrating!

This absolutely spectacular early 18C Kishangarh painting, reminiscent of the hand of great Mughal master Bhavanidas, is part of the most extraordinary collection of paintings up for auction next week at Christies.

www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On free speech in UK universities. Despite the sensasionalist framing (there is no "free speech crisis" in UK universities; even the last Tory govt's inquiry found none* though that didn't stop them legislating) — this is very good @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
October 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Some Strand Campus pics to whet your appetite — yes, that really is the view over London from the top floor of Bush House where we will be holding receptions, concerts, and other plenary leisure events!
October 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just had the loveliest time at Frieze Masters — two highlights from Francesca Galloway and Prahlad Bubbar collections, plus a serendipitous meeting!
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I have needed to get up and go and do something for 45 minutes now, and I absolutely cannot. Whippet pillow is my most important job.
October 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
<crying>
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is GREAT (thanks for the excellent find @ncdominie.bsky.social )
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Current view
October 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
My extremely beautiful and very silly whippet turns 3 today.
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
There’s something about this incredibly lazy swan by the Cam that reminds me of my dog.

This photo was taken one foot away, and s/he was totally unbothered
October 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
still life with whippet
October 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A perennial favourite.

I reckon the bookshop was Galloway & Porter on Sidney Street in Cambridge. Showing my age there.
October 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Oh Wallace! 😢 His dog buddy Wallace sends special sleepy hugs.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM