Whitney Thompson

Librarian, historian, multimedia tinkerer, and professional screwball. Researching the Victorian ballad composer Claribel/the music business of 1860s England.

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

still mostly not on this platform anymore, but I'm popping in because I had to migrate my Claribel research newsletter from TinyLetter to @buttondown - new link is here, go subscribe! I've got a post scheduled for later today...
https://t.co/5FM5uRk8Cl

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

Popping in super briefly to say that if you're not doing anything from 10-11 AM British Standard Time, you should watch @hammondpatricia and me talk about Claribel and perform her songs!
https://t.co/BGTyIf1jk2
Passcode: 566981

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

Contract signed so I think I can make this public now. OUP will publish my book "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British". I examine British attitudes towards opera, 1920-2020, reveal a forgotten history of popular opera going, and trace the rise of the elitism stereotype.

[BritishMusicHallSoc @musichallsoc]

Today's prescription is Dr De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil as sung by the "Star of the East", Walter Laburnam.
Are we all taking our vitamins?

#SongsheetSaturday

[The History Press @TheHistoryPress]

On 30 May @WStonesArgyleST, @GrahamWatson73 launches 'The Invention of Charlotte Brontë' - an explosive biography which explores the truths and myths of the English novelist.

More info and tickets: https://t.co/4BHr9UnBIH

#CharlotteBrontë #NewBooks #Bronte @Waterstones

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

@Karenmca no that's not it, she never had any children and she's getting advertising and concert play in her native England in this time frame. I'm wondering if it's something to do with the Civil War - whether a bunch of papers were straight up destroyed or the content was just 100% war.

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

hey #c19 people, maybe this is a silly question, but it's been bugging me: I've searched like 10+ periodical databases at this point for mentions of my gal Claribel in American papers, and yet I have a huge time gap in my 2,000+ strong collection from ~Nov 1860 to late 1862. why?

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

I know for a fact that a few of Claribel's songs had been imported to the US by this point, specifically by Oliver Ditson in Boston, because they pop up in a few New England papers in fall 1860. I feel like statistically speaking I should have run across *something* by now

[INCSA @INCSA_19thC]

We are delighted to announce that registration for the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (#INCSA), "The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal," is open!
Join us: https://t.co/gWj7jDXFvN

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Kidnappers returning me after I talk about my research for 1 hour

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

@JoanneCormac so intrigued by this - I'm hoping to do something similar for my work, though I'm compiling the data basically from scratch 😬 are you using a specific software to map out all these performances?

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

@EHUNineteen if they don't pick Currer and the Bells I may just have to yoink it for a cover band name, that is too good

[The Hallé @the_halle]

🎉 We've launched our brand new Repertoire Database! 🎉

Over 20 years in the making, the Hallé is the only UK orchestra to have produced such a database to date!

🧵👇

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

@mirandareinert ooh yay!! I'll see what I can put together by the 8th, then 😁

[BRITISH History - On This Day @BritishHistorym]

#otd 30 January 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

@the_halle #thehalle #britishhistory

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

@mirandareinert oh man, this sounds cool and I can't wait to read it!!
in terms of pitches, how amenable would you be to music history stuff? I'm researching a Victorian-era pop songwriter, and it's unexpectedly given me a lot of opinions and feelings about physical sheet music

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

man, when you're working with historical periodicals that have been made full-text searchable via OCR, it really is absolutely worth searching multiple databases that contain the same title(s) because of how badly OCR can mangle words

[Whitney Thompson @klahom]

I've started planning out my poster presentation for @musiclibassoc in a few months! going to get a bit artsy-fartsy with it and play with the idea of "layers" of the historical record - current idea involves gluing and layering text onto sheets of wax paper...

[CNCSI @CN_CSI]

Another Tuesday, another #19write.
What are you working on today? Use the hashtag to tell us about your 19th-century research, and we will retweet throughout the day.

[Paul @pauledwardwatt]

Published today by The Boydell Press!

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

The Illustrated Police News, London, England, December 11, 1869