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New blog post from our colleague Jonathan Frank, Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Music, on performance material for the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor blogs.bl.uk/music/2024/07/…

1/2 Latest WS newsletter: next WS mtg 7pm Weds 20th Nov (online only); free fundraising training from @WalworthGarden ; Father Andrew 200th Appeal; Burgess Park AGM Tues 5th Nov (7.00-8.30pm)... walworthsociety.co.uk/2024/10/24/wal…

A timely post ahead of his 150th anniversary year in 2025. The story of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The National Archives beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-co…

Today we've added four major digitised manuscripts to our website. The Moutier-Grandval Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum etc., and the Lindisfarne Gospels are available to view at

A wonderful new resource for exploring the multi-faceted Esther Inglis, daughter of #Huguenot parents who emigrated from France to Scotland in the sixteenth century.

Looking forward to these #GustavHolst150 events British Library, and speaking on 20 November. His anniversary year has revealed new insights into his music and life. This is a celebration, bringing those insights together, and the 1st with Britten Pears Arts Holst Victorian House & Royal College of Music

FryArtGallery fans who love Tirzah Garwood’s work will enjoy the exhibition coming soon Dulwich Picture Gallery. Drawn mostly from private collections, it will be a treat for mid-20C art enthusiasts . See their website for details. Image: Train Journey, wood engraving, 1929

Altos rehearsing similarly DulwichChoralSociety Society this evening.

#Holst150 #125: Chrissemas Day in the Morning H. 165 Op. 46/1 (1926) I'm listening to every Holst piece I can find in the order he composed them. These three little piano pieces are sorely-needed solace on a dark and gloomy morning. /1 youtu.be/a25fmo_jCHo?si…

Orders in Council have been refreshed to feature the Tudor Crown. The four motifs of the UK (rose, leek, shamrock and thistle) are also better defined than before.

On our way home from a wonderfully varied concert by Muses of Ukraine, including #GustavHolst’s Four Songs for Voice and Violin. Although challenging to perform they were much performed in his lifetime and he thought he had come close to his quest to wed his music to words.

This richly decorated manuscript Dutch #BookofHours was likely made in Groningen and used as a family record for over a century. Check out our latest Curator's Choice video to learn more about this wonderful manuscript 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Go0IhU… #Manuscript #NewCollege #Archive

One of a number of aspects of daughter #ImogenHolst’s biography of Gustav Holst which needs revision was her assertion that his socialism was never very deep. There is considerable archival evidence that it was. Looking forward to tomorrow’s lecture too.

#otd 1929 the centrepiece for the housewarming of Louise Dyer’s Paris penthouse was the premiere of #GustavHolst150’s Humbert Wolfe Songs. The party gifts were his Rig Veda hymns and the differently innovative Four Songs for Voice and Violin. More to enjoy ⁦Holst Victorian House⁩.

Wonderful performance of #GustavHolst150’s 2 piano version of The Planets in the normally quiet-ish Rare Books and Music room ⁦British Library⁩. An unexpected chance to see one of his MS scores too. Bravo to all concerned for a wonderful experiment to be repeated soon.

My first journal article is published! It tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against enslavement hours before Wilberforce’s 1st abolitionist speech. Secret spy reports & newspapers reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking. Read it here: tandfonline.com/eprint/TKAETDB…

Composer & pianist Fanny Mendelsssohn was born #OTD in 1805 - surely one of the most extraordinary composers to have published so little in her own lifetime. Thank goodness her scores are being given a new lease of life now - here's her Piano Trio: open.spotify.com/track/2H3BWku5…

A quick reminder about this Holst event at the British Library next week (Wed 20 Nov) - blogs.bl.uk/music/2024/10/…. Colleagues from Holst Victorian House, The Britten Pears Archive and Philippa Tudor explore Holst's archival legacy - plus music by Gustav and Imogen, thanks to Royal College of Music!

Delighted that the extraordinary volume of sermon by Huguenot minister Jean Jembelin features in this - one of many treasures waiting to be discovered LambethPalaceLibrary The Huguenot Society has made so many of its own resources available online to all its fellows/members. Huge thanks.