Alice Little recently completed her DPhil in Music at Oxford University, focusing on music collecting in eighteenth-century England, and particularly the tunebooks of John Malchair (1730-1812). She is now Research Associate at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and a Read More …
Leith Davis is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford UP, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Read More …
Introduction by Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow) In many ways our RNSN concert on 18 March 2019 was the culmination of our network, though we still have many resources and ‘song stories’ to be added to the website and the Read More …
Introduction by Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow) We are most grateful to Sam McShane and her team at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for working with us and the other UK conservatories to bring together our team of singers for Read More …
Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. He is the author of The Read More …
Alice Little recently completed her DPhil in Music at Oxford University, focusing on music collecting in eighteenth-century England, and particularly the collection of John Malchair (1730-1812). She is now Research Associate at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and a Read More …
David Kennerley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2014 with a thesis on professional female singers in Britain, c.1760–1850. Read More …
Amélie Addison is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds researching the life and music of Tyneside-born theatre composer William Shield (1748-1829) Her thesis argues that Shield’s familiarity with Northumbrian and Scots airs during his childhood and early career Read More …
I. J. Corfe is based at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she is currently working on a project titled “‘Sing England for Ever! And Erin-go-Bragh!’: Irishness in the Nineteenth-Century English Broadside Ballad” which analyses representations of Ireland in Read More …
This is the opening blog of the Romantic National Song Network and I wanted to use this first blog as an opportunity to give a little bit of an introduction to our network, our meetings so far and to explain Read More …