Dr Karen McAulay explores the history of Scottish music collecting, publishing and national identity from the 18th to 20th centuries. Research Fellow at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, author of two Routledge monographs.
Another call for papers, spotted on social media this morning …
Conference announcement: Finding the Women in
Library & Information History
CILIP LIHG Conference 2019
Saturday 22nd June
The John Rylands Library, Manchester pic.twitter.com/8EvNqVoFab— CILIP LIHG (@CILIP_LIHG) February 26, 2019
I’m excited to be part of a panel talking about paratext at the forthcoming ISECS Congress, 14th – 19th July 2019, hosted by the University of Edinburgh. Registration is now open, though the detailed programme isn’t yet finalised. (There’s an early bird rate until 30 April.)
❌ 2019 SPEAKER APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW ❌
Ideas. Exciting, new, ground-breaking, thought-provoking ideas. If you have them, we want them. This year’s theme is Connection so if your idea connects to the theme, apply to be a speaker here > https://t.co/l2GyAgg8Pp #TEDxGla2019 pic.twitter.com/go4Z0sKRJx
— TEDxGlasgow (@TEDxGlasgow) February 25, 2019
How lovely to see Miss Lambert included there in this blog about St Andrews University Library’s women staff! (even if Miss L. wasn’t actually an employee!)
The theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 is ‘Balance for better’ with a call to action to help ‘forge a more gender-balanced world.’ Women have been studying at St Andrews for 127 years having been first admitted to the University as students in 1892 – though the University’s Ladies Literate in Arts (LLA) scheme began earlier in 1877 as a distance learning qualification for women. Although the history of women at St Andrews is a fraction of the University’s 600-year history, more recent statistics suggest the sex/gender balance in the student population (2017) is now in favour of female students (58.4%), compared to male (41.6%).
Tracing the history of women employed by the University is more difficult. We cannot say for sure who the first woman to be employed by the University was, although the 16th century statutes of St Leonard’s College include the rule that no woman…
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To celebrate having finished my ResearchFish submission, I thought I’d make a few CFSH bookmarks. I did no market research – maybe no-one will even want one! But basically, there will be eleven of them up for grabs. I’ll offer them to people who’ve been involved with or interested in the project, and when they’re gone, they’re gone!
I’ve just seen an upcoming event that looks very relevant, so I’m sharing it here with fellow Claimed From Stationers’ Hall networkers:-
Venue: CCA
What could be more cool than an extensive, updated bibliography full of good stuff about music copyright and legal deposit history, and its context in 18th-19th century cultural life? I agree – there couldn’t possibly be anything more delightful! And this time, it’s illustrated. Not only that – our guest bloggers are listed as well. Thanks again to each of them for their contributions!
Here on the blog, there’s a page specially for the network bibliography:-
Enjoy!
NB there may, in due course, be bookmarks for the most enthusiastic of bibliographiles. Watch this space!
Followers of this blog may like to sign up to news briefings from the Institute of English Studies’ School of Advanced Study at the University of London. The latest briefing includes news about fellowship opportunities, and advance information about the London Rare Books School in June, with a course run by our friend Giles Bergel (Oxford/UCL) and Elizabeth Savage (IES) – about printing of an earlier era than we normally concentrate on, but very interesting nonetheless!
Over the weekend, I put together a very tiny animation about a tune plagiarised from Moore’s Irish Melodies in 1815. Interesting Twitter conversation ensued with Paul Cooper (of RegencyDances.org) and folklorist Jurgen Kloss in Hennef, Germany. In brief, it does appear that folk tunes – and even country dances – were seen as fair game for repurposing and republication, although there are a number of legal disputes on record in contemporary newspapers. And I have some more great references for the bibliography, next time I’m updating it!
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Here’s my original weekend posting:-
I unearthed an unexpected instance of musical plagiarism yesterday. And I wonder if Thomas Moore and James Power were even aware of it! I won’t divulge too many of the details, as I might be referring to it in a conference paper one day, but here’s the teaser, in the form of a brief Biteable animation! Please click the link below:-
This makes me think of the early photograph of an old lady, Mrs Bertram of Edinburgh. (As readers of Claimed From Stationers Hall blog and the EAERN project blog will realise, I think it highly likely that it’s “our” school proprietress, Jane Bertram.) I’m intrigued that so much can be found out about the subjects of early photographs. Hopefully I’ll be able to reach out to the authors of Glasgow University Library’s blogpost to see if they’ve ever encountered her!
Guest blog post by Roddy Simpson, photographer and writer on the history of photography, author of ‘The Photography of Victorian Scotland’ (2012).
Elizabeth Johnston Hall by Hill and Adamson. Carbon print by Jessie Bertram 1916. University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections Dougan Add. 40
Elizabeth Johnston Hall (1822-1901) is one of the most famous photographed Scottish women because of the superb image of her produced in the mid-1840s, at the very beginnings of photography, by the pioneering Scottish partnership of David Octavius Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48). She is clearly identified because ‘her name had been written by D O Hill under the photograph’ (see footnote 1).
The beautifully composed and lit image of this Newhaven fishwife has appeared in countless exhibitions around the world, been enlarged to poster size and also appeared on the sides of buses and trams. She has been written about by academics and art…
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Karen McAulay, Musicologist 