Kate Arnold

This Weds, 18th March, I'll be @SOAS talking about Arabic poetry from the crusading period. Hybrid & free (but you need to register)! Warning: may include performance 🎶🎵 soas.ac.uk/about/event/ar… #medieval #Arabic #history #poetry Image from British Library Add. MS. 22114. f.94

Arabic proverb of the day: 👑 "How sweet is the throne even if you only rule over a stone!" It rhymes in Arabic: yā ḥabbadhā l-imāra wa-law ʿalā l-ḥijāra

Failure to save the UK’s oldest working cinema is not good enough. Failure to restore the birthplace of Black Sabbath & Heavy Metal is not good enough. Action. Now. Birmingham and Brummies deserve better.

Low Stock Alert! Latest inventory reveals only 22 'Fairy Tale Ending' CDs left; the album I made with my 'punk baroque' band Fear of the Forest. It will continue to be available as a digital download, but if you'd like a physical copy now is the time! katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/album/fairy-ta…

Birmingham’s canals were never calm or quiet. They cradle a lost graveyard, gangsters in the shadows, women locked away in a hidden hospital and the quiet craft of the Coffin Works. Join me on The Secret History of Birmingham Canals walking tour. yuup.co/experiences/se…

Looking forward to this at @SOAS in a couple of weeks. I'll be talking about Arabic poetry related to the Crusades, sharing some of my PhD research and discussing sonic/musical approaches to the poems. May include performance! 🎶🎵 Hybrid and open to all. soas.ac.uk/about/event/ar…

The Observatory pub in Handsworth may be closed, but its story still shines. 🔭 Linked to Birmingham’s fascinating history of astronomical telescopes and star-gazing ambition, a reminder of a city that once looked to the stars. #Birmingham #Handsworth #walkingtour

Poster for BLADE RUNNER (1982) by Krzysztof Domaradzki

Need something to listen to tonight? In the latest episode of The Guilty Feminist podcast with Kate Mosse on feminist history, there's a shout out to the @NoSchoolSexism group's research on the lack of women in the school curriculum guiltyfeminist.com/episode/?episo…

Meanwhile I encourage everyone to continue supporting musicians on Bandcamp and anywhere else they peddle their wares beyond the thrall of Spotify etc. More news soon! #medieval #music #electromedieval #Bandcamp

Thank you to everyone who downloaded my medieval 'research mixes' on #bandcampfriday, and to those who ordered merch; your T-shirts and bags are now winging their way to you! Why not stay updated on all the latest by joining the mailing list at katearnoldmusic.com/contact/ ?

In many early medieval calendars, 7 February is the first day of spring. Anglo-Saxon poetry imagines spring as a season of quickening and liberation, floods and wild seas - a time when the earth is released from winter's bonds and the waters run free: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2015/02/unwind…

The 'Rota Fortunae' T-shirts, designed by @darkview, printed by Dark Peak Press, are incredibly good quality; not 'plasticky' and with different designs on the front, back and sleeves; behold! Go to katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/merch #rotafortunae #wheeloffortune #medieval #scifi #electro

Also: It is my duty to tell you there are now only THREE 'Rota Fortunae' bags left in the whole wide world! Plus the much-loved T-shirts (a bit superior to the average band T-shirt, though I say so myself) are down to the last few. katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/merch

'Count of Anjou' and 'Complaint' limited editions both available briefly for today's #bandcampfriday, in case you missed them before: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/music Real medieval music, but not as you know it! #medievalsky #medieval #music #history #electro #hammereddulcimer

I know it’s hard to care about a historic neglected cinema or rotting birthplace of Heavy Metal when the world is a burning bin fire But let your pride in being Brummie and love of our collective heritage be an act of punk resistance Don’t let your culture be asset stripped

Remember I also have some lovely top-quality merch, and we're down to the last few 'Rota Fortunae' bags and T-shirts now, so grab 'em while you can! katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/merch #medieval #music #History

To celebrate becoming a Doctor of Medieval History, for tomorrow's #bandcampfriday I'll make 'Count of Anjou' and 'Complaint' limited editions available briefly, for anyone who may have missed one or both of them before. Visit the page from 08:00 UK time: katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/music

Labour have announced a targeted £1.5bn cultural funding. Excellent. But will @BrumLeader @ShabanaMahmood and @RichParkerLab be getting any to CPO & save The Crown, The Electric or Central Methodist Hall in Birmingham? The iconic venues. Closed & Rotting. One for @lisanandy?