• Anne Lister’s music books freely available online

    Two volumes of music that belonged to the celebrated English diarist Anne Lister (1791-1840) are now accessible for musicians, scholars, Lister enthusiasts and fans of the TV series ‘Gentleman Jack’. The original books are kept at Lister’s former home at Shibden Hall. A collaboration between curators from Calderdale Museums and researchers at the Universities of…

  • Newly rediscovered Austen music now available online

    Jane Austen’s own copy of a wide-ranging collection of short keyboard pieces is now freely available online in The Austen Family Music Books collection in Internet Archive, digitised by the University of Southampton. As a pupil of the Winchester organist George Chard in the 1790s, Austen engaged with scores aimed at learners that were produced…