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📣BROADSIDE BALLAD USERS!📣 If you use online databases of early modern English broadside ballads for any sort of research, please fill out my dissertation survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK I’m looking at the databases people use and the impact of Bodleian Ballads Online closing - thanks!

A petition has now been created by Exeter UCU against these measures. Sign it here: c.org/LF57sK7YfR This careless obliteration of HASS subjects is needless and so cruel to the fantastic staff at Exeter, and the wider devaluing of humanities & arts subjects within UKHE must be stopped.

Sign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeterc.org

Studying English at Exeter was the incredible experience it was because of the passionate, dedicated, and caring academics in the department. These cuts to English and other HASS departments are so awful and disheartening from a university that I thought valued arts and the humanities. Solidarity.

“And winter’s gone away O” A May Day favourite 🌷🌷 youtu.be/Fe-WWMHQASg?...

'Till April is dead' Lisa Knapp YoutubeYouTube video by Lisa Knappyoutu.be

Beach curation 🐚

The medicinal power of being pummelled by the wind! 🌊

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Super pleased to say you can now read my essay here! (featuring @angelcakepie2.bsky.social because I’m incapable of writing an essay that’s not about folk music in some capacity…) I hope anyone who reads it enjoys - I loved writing on this subject, and thanks to BOA for running the competition!

Really interesting piece by Jon Wilks - I’ve recently cancelled my Spotify subscription and moved platforms. While other streaming services are by no means perfect, at least my money isn’t directly funding causes I disagree with. Recommend this to any artists/listeners thinking of ditching Spotify!👇

Glad to see BBC News picking up this story about AI generated music being released on real artists’ Spotify/YouTube pages. So odd and really quite disturbing!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'AI slop': Musicians on the mystery of fraudsters releasing songs in their nameArtists on the mystery of being targeted by fraudsters releasingwww.bbc.co.uk

The sinister weirdness of GenAI continues… Phenomenal folk musician Emily Portman has had A WHOLE ALBUM OF AI MUSIC released under her name without her knowledge - with plausible song titles & even cover art, all AI generated without her consent and attributed to her on streaming platforms! 1/2

Well it’s 8:30 on May Day and I already have Hal-an-Tow stuck in my head …

Sometimes I feel mildly comforted when Google’s compulsory AI overview is wildly wrong; this is a sung line from The Knight of Burning Pestle that I am trying to find the origin for!

Absolutely gorgeous concert in Crediton tonight from Lady Maisery!! What a delight, such beautiful and complex harmonies - and amazing to finally see the group who were my first proper introduction to folk music! #FolkSky #FolkMusic #LadyMaisery

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Loved using Special Collections materials to write this blog post celebrating the birthdays of Baring-Gould and Child! So cool to be able to work from Baring-Gould’s personal copies of the Child ballads!! Give it a read if you’re interested ☺️

Enormously behind the times, but gosh isn’t this a beautiful album - A Pocket of Wind Resistance, Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy. Was privileged to see Karine at Sidmouth Folk Fest last summer, utterly spellbinding, and I LOVE the use of spoken word on this album ❤️ open.spotify.com/album/0U4vDH...

A Pocket of Wind ResistanceKarine Polwart · Album · 2017 · 14 songsopen.spotify.com

This is old news, but the absence of the Bodleian Ballads website is reeeeeally starting to affect my research abilities 😔 Massively appreciating the wayback machine for at least keeping access open, but consistently finding that the exact pages I need haven’t been archived … help!

This is a vital, engaging, thought-provoking and, for me, shocking, piece about falling through the cracks of the UK’s failing mental health system… really really urge everyone to read. @scouttzofiya.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gunI didn’t remember committing my crime but I knew I had fallen through the cracks of the system. Could prison really be my salvation?www.theguardian.com

🌟To round off the year, some of my new discoveries and favourites of 2024!🌟 Books: Noreen Masud, A Flat Place Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (yes, really!) Music: Ani DiFranco The Roches Indigo Girls Films: The Red Shoes The Holdovers Young Woman and the Sea

Loving Janice Burns and Jon Doran’s new album, Great Joy to the New - delightfully festive folky music, and a refreshing antidote to the same 10 xmas songs that circulate all day at my retail job!! open.spotify.com/album/0RXC8D...

Great Joy to the NewJanice Burns & Jon Doran · Album · 2024 · 13 songsopen.spotify.com

I have finally finished knitting my scarf - just as the stormy weather starts to improve! Typical!