Last week, I attended two very fruitful meetings at the British Library and Lambeth Palace Library – the modern incarnations of two libraries receiving the old copyright music. The British Library was previously The British Museum Library, and Lambeth Palace Library inherited Sion College’s library. I’ve yet to finish writing up my notes from the second of these meetings, but there will eventually be a blogpost about what we discussed. Most crucially, we discussed possible dates for a workshop in Spring 2018, and I’ve since set the ball rolling back here in Glasgow, so watch this space!
Whilst in London, I made a quick pilgrimage to Stationers’ Hall, but since this was an unscheduled detour, I didn’t make myself known there. Definitely somewhere for my itinerary next time I’m down, because Stationers’ Hall recently brought their archives back in house. This is certainly something worth investigating!
I’ve experimented with different ways of interpreting research in an effort to reach out to different audiences. I’ve sewn an abstract and I’ve made podcasts and even a videocast. On the train home, I attempted a poem. (Well, an 8787 verse, at any rate!) If you’d like to see it, please visit our Facebook site, which seemed a more appropriate place for my amateur scribblings!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 