Research and Partnerships team, UoL @livunirpteam.bsky.social Our team works with the academic community and external collaborators to: advance new research initiatives, facilitate cross-sector partnerships, support bid development, elevate research outputs, fuel interdisciplinary research, and more
Rebecca Silverwood @beccasilverwood.bsky.social Mother • Trustee • Educator
Passionate about self-directed learning for the sheer joy of it, widening access in the arts, and the Oxford comma.
Marries strangers for fun.
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Chris Abbott @chrisabbott.bsky.social Theatre writer, reviewer for West End Best Friend. Pantomime enthusiast. Emeritus Reader, King's College London
TransPennine Express @tpexpresstrains.bsky.social The (un)official Twitter account for TransPennine Express. (Parody)
TransPennine Express @tpexpress.bsky.social https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
We aren't currently offering real-time support on Bluesky but, we're actively looking to add this in the future. For now, you can still reach us on our other social media platforms.
Dr Tom Hewitt @ethnotweeter.bsky.social #PhD in the #philosophy of music. Painter (nom de pinceau: Tom Tomos). Still trying hard to learn Cymraeg.
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Oxford International Song Festival @oxfordsong.bsky.social Oxford International Song Festival is the UK’s largest Festival of Song, and has built a national and international reputation over the past twenty five years.
Charlie Holland @charlieholland.bsky.social 19th century Circus & Music Hall history & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference, London Juggling & Flow Arts Festival (throwntogether.org).
Robert Hazle @roberthazle.bsky.social Cabaret performer, MD & panto director.
Singing ‘The Shows we Used To Know’: the forgotten favourites and fabulous flops of musical theatre history.
www.roberthazle.com
#showsweusedtoknow
Profile photos: Miranda Mazzarella/Pamela Raith.
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Bradley Hoover @drbradleyhoover.bsky.social Aesthetics, Theology, Philosophy, and Music History. Author of ‘The Aesthetic System of François Delsarte and Richard Wagner: Catholicism, Romanticism, and Ancient Music,’ Cambridge UP. April 2025. 🇨🇦
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Philip Clark @musicclerk.bsky.social Author-journalist (Prospect, NYRB, Spectator, The Wire); Brubeck biographer; new book “Sound and the City" 2027, White Rabbit & Hachette; Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award Winner, 2022.
Info: curtisbrown.co.uk/client/philip-clark
Oxford/London
Lily Hirsch @lilyehirsch.bsky.social Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.
Choir of the Earth @choiroftheearth.com 🎼 We are an acclaimed global online choir, offering unique opportunities to learn, sing & record great choral works, no matter who or where you are. Enjoy award-winning teaching, innovative tools & a passion for great music. Join us at choiroftheearth.com
Claire@ClarionEditing @clarionediting.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood editor for academic writing in arts and humanities, esp. music/ology. Also proofreads and branches out into other subjects occasionally. Ich spreche auch Deutsch! 🇩🇪
@hprior.bsky.social @hprior.bsky.social Music Psychologist interested in encouraging environmentally-friendly behaviour change 
Daily Bach @dailybach.bsky.social Follow me for short excursions back into time with a daily dose of the father of (classical) music, J.S. Bach.
Every day a random BWV# is chosen, some will be familiar, some need a good dusting, short and long, sacred and secular. But all will be Bach!
City of London Chamber Choir @clcc.org.uk We are a friendly group of singers who perform services in Cathedrals and churches around the UK, with the occasional concert here in London. Rehearse fortnightly Wed 7 -9pm Guy's Hospital Chapel
Helen Coffey @helencoffey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Music, Open University, interested in music and sound, society and culture c.1500-c.1700. 
Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social The Music Department at The Open University offers distance-learning qualifications in Music, including BA, MA and PhD degrees. https://fass.open.ac.uk/music
Faith Thompson @faithsbthompson.bsky.social Musicology PhD student
https://www.linkedin.com/in/faith-thompson/
@rosemarygolding.bsky.social @rosemarygolding.bsky.social Music historian @ Open University, research interests in health history, 19th century Britain, social and cultural history, education history. Views my own.
https://musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
Mark Heron @markconductor.bsky.social Conductor & Teacher
www.markheron.co.uk
Dr Sheree Gregory @drshereegregory.bsky.social Employment Relations + HRM academic @ University of Newcastle. Studying care/working life in creative industries, work/life & tech, future of work, contemporary issues surrounding workplaces & households. Forthcoming bk ~ Sydney Uni Press. Views are my own
Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social a.k.a. Ethnomusicology Du(e)ck?
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Specialisms: 19th-century music, the symphony, global history, imperialism, travel, transnationalism, cultural exchange.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social Professor of Music, The Open University. Interested in music and Christianity in C18th-19th Britain, and Welsh music history. Co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge University Press). Organist. Crime fiction reader. Cricket watcher.
@slippedisc.bsky.social @slippedisc.bsky.social 
Riffs @popmusicjournal.bsky.social OA journal for experimental writing, art, photography, composition + performance on Popular Music. Current issue: Vol 9, Issue 1 - Feb 2026
https://linktr.ee/riffsjournal
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
@thetungauditorium.bsky.social @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 
Izzy Thomas @izzygthomas.bsky.social Ncl PhD candidate in music venues and labour history. Musician of many trades, master of none. Occasional journalist and critic.
Gabriel Solis @gabriel-solis.bsky.social Musician, scholar, reader, writer. I’m sure things can always get worse, but I still work to make them better.
Professor Sue Miller @profsuemiller.bsky.social Professor of Music at Leeds Beckett University. Interested in Cuban music, improvisation, performance, music analysis, French popular music, music education and interdisciplinary arts practice research.
www.charangasue.com- J @jwilli7.bsky.social @jwilli7.bsky.social
Kerry Bunkhall @kerrybunkhall.bsky.social PhD Musicology on Francis Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites and Catholicism at @CardiffUni | Contemporary Opera | C20 France | http://tinyurl.com/kerrybunkhall
Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social Associate professor of musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Former saxophone player, always philosophy reader, currently popular music fan (and more). 
Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social Associate Professor and head of Music at RHUL, working on Slavonic studies and analysis. Also a runner and TU organiser (@rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h
https://danielelphick.co.uk
Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University; Feminist Musicologist; Lover of house plants and the outdoors #WomenInMusic
Sheet Music Library (PDF) @smlpdf-org.bsky.social Digital subscription Sheet Music Library. Great Jazz transcriptions. Best scores ever, amazing variety, film sheet music, methods & theory, arrangements, contemporary scores. #smlpdf
https://sheetmusiclibrary.website/
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
Christopher Ballantine @chrisballantine.bsky.social Radical musicology. Books include Music and its Social Meanings | Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa | Twentieth Century Symphony | Living Together; Living Apart? Towards Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa. UKZN
Anna Harwell Celenza @annacelenza.bsky.social Author & musicologist with strong interests in PB and YA literature, jazz, and American history. Professor at JHU (Writing Seminars) and Peabody Conservatory (Musicology).
Katherine Leo @kmleo.bsky.social Forensic Musicology | jazz & commercial pop | Ph.D., J.D., Assoc. Prof. ethno/musicology, Millikin University | cellist | pugs
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Louise Kenny @louiseckenny.bsky.social Mum, medic (OBGYN) and academic. Pro Vice Chancellor Health and Life Sciences University of Liverpool. Homesick for the independent republic of Cork #MedSky
Barbara Kelly @barbarakelly8.bsky.social Professor of musicology; expert in early twentieth century French music and culture, music and conflict, and women in music. Head of School of Music at the University of Leeds, Immediate Past President of the Royal Musical Association.
Milton Mermikides @miltonline.bsky.social Musical sciences and anything else beautiful. 37th Gresham Professor of Music, Professor (University of Surrey), Professor of Jazz Guitar (Royal College of Music), Certified Nerd
Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social Launching the careers of exceptional musicians since 1883.
Excellence drives everything we do, from our teaching and facilities to our unique student experience.
RMA French Music Study Group @rmafrenchmusic.bsky.social Royal Musical Association French Music Study Group
https://rmafrenchmusic.wordpress.com
https://rma.ac.uk
RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social Welcome to the bluesky of the Royal Musical Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group!
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Promenaders’ Musical Charities @prommerscharities.bsky.social The Promenaders' Musical Charities is a philanthropic trust and not a registered charity. The PMC is not part of the BBC or the Royal Albert Hall. We collect for musical charities after BBC Proms concerts
Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social Maritime musicologist and author of 'The Shantyman's Compendium'. Completed a PhD on ‘the last shantyman’, Stan Hugill, at the University of Aberdeen.
https://www.molliecarlyle.com
Stephanie Pitts @sparcsheffield.bsky.social Director of Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre at University of Sheffield. Researcher of lifelong engagement in music. Teacher of music psychology. Lover of gardens and beaches.
Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social Quality guided London walks by & for those who #LoveLondon delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm.
@footprintsoflondon - Where Londoners Walk
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Matt Brennan @profmattbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Popular Music at University of Glasgow. My book 'Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit' (Oxford University Press) is out now: linksta.cc/@mattbrennan
Leah Roseman @leahroseman.bsky.social My podcast strives to inspire you through the personal stories of a diversity of musicians, with in-depth conversations and great music, that reveal the depth and breadth to a life in music. Conversations with Musicians: leahroseman.com
Abigail Gardner @abgard.bsky.social Music. Ageing Sound. https://sageproject.co.uk/ Connected Listening.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/listening-belonging-and-memory-9781501376825/ Prof of Cultural Studies. Researching new book on @PJHarvey memory place and Dorset
de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social DJ. Pianist. Writer. Assistant Professor.
Junjie Xi @jxi2024.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, International Exchange Lead, Liverpool’s School of Architecture. Working on China’s railway development and infrastructure in Dhaka. Writing a new book with Bloomsbury.
Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.
David Brent Johnson @davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social WFIU-Bloomington, IN jazz director, host of the thematic historical jazz program Night Lights (wfiu.org/nightlights). Writer when I write.
Fulham Symphony Orchestra @fso.org.uk A big, ambitious amateur orchestra in west London.
fso.org.uk
David Fawcett @choralwork.bsky.social Mission and ministry to children and young people through traditional church music. Want to see many more children everywhere have the chance to grow in faith and become leaders in parish church music ministry. Building for the future in Swanage, Dorset.
Bruno Mars @brunosmars.bsky.social Musician/Band
Lauralee Yeary (she/her) @theweaknessinme.bsky.social Senior Associate Editor commissioning titles in Ethnomusicology, Oral History, Jazz Studies, and Religion for Oxford University Press | bad jokes + opinions my own
Jo Thompson @ldngenie.bsky.social Writer and Genealogist researching 1920's nightclubs and women's history. Cocktail drinker and vintage cape aficionado. #ClubQueens #KateMeyrick #Soho #1920s #HeirloomHunter #DopeGirls
www.thelondongenealogist.com
Mark Lomanno @rhythmofstudy.bsky.social Ethnographer, pianist, & prof @ UMiami. Writer @ Jazz Times. Editorial board @ Jazz Perspectives journal. New book, The Improviser's Classroom out now! (they/he)
rhythmofstudy.com celebrates jazz musicians' work in the arts, academia, & activism.
Documenting Britain @documentingbritain.bsky.social Supportive documentary photography platform focussed on emerging artists.
Daniel Tackley @dtackley.bsky.social Director - Informata Ltd, Data Consultant, Trombonist, Photographer, Stargazer, Sound Recordist, Geek.
Matthew Ord @mattheword.bsky.social Musicologist researching the intersections of technologies, places and cultural identities in contemporary folk and popular music.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/people/profile/mattheword.html
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-recording-in-postwar-british-fo
Dr Katherine Williams @jazzladyk.bsky.social Musician. Musicologist. Writer. Mum of 2. Life is loud and wordy.
Research Fellow in Popular Music Songwriting, University of Huddersfield. Research Skills Officer, Royal Musical Association. MA/PhD musicology (Nottingham), MA Creative Writing (Bristol).
theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Toby Huelin @tobyhuelin.bsky.social Researching and teaching music and screen media @ University of Leeds | Media composer and BAFTA Connect member
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social NZ Jazz Historian; Lilburn Fellow 2017; Professional Teaching Fellow Music at Auckland Uni. Come for the music, stay for everything else. Opinions definitely my own! She/her
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social News from the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Liverpool. Monitored 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/
Hatch the Tudor Dog @hatchthedog.bsky.social Former ratter on Henry VIII's Mary Rose, these days I live at the Mary Rose Museum. Doggy opinions my own. Woof.
Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, horror films and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
Beth Hunt @befleppard.bsky.social PhD student in Music at University of Liverpool, studying concerts of film, tv, and game music 🎬📺👾
Nancy Francis @athanasiafr.bsky.social @LiverpoolUni (trans)feminism, social anthropology, phenomenology, Basque studies, transnational movements, solidarity strategies, disability and gender violence, affect. GBV survivor, Balkan immigrant, crip. She/her
#academicsky 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Oliver Morris @dr-oli-morris.bsky.social Director of Education & Skills UK Music, crew Aberystwyth Lifeboat, occasional coppicer, cyclist, martial artist, musician. 🏴 
Adam Behr @adambehrlive.bsky.social Researcher, writer, lecturer - music, politics, popular culture. Does other things occasionally.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.