Rosemary Golding

I am a Music Historian specialising in the social and cultural history of music in nineteenth-century Britain. I hold degrees from the University of Oxford (MA, MSt) and Royal Holloway, University of London (PhD). I have worked at the Open University since 2009, where I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Music.
My research expertise is in areas of music education, the music profession and the history of music and mental health. My most recent research has focussed on the history of music, health and wellbeing in Victorian England. I have published monographs on Music and Academia in Victorian Britain (Ashgate 2013) and Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) as well as articles in (among others) the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, Social History of Medicine and Nineteenth Century Music Review. Most recently I was commissioned to produce a documentary history of Music in Nineteenth Century Britain (Routledge 2022).
I am currently developing a network of scholars working on the history of Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-century Britain, and a study of music at the Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries.
Blog: https://musichealthandhappiness.wordpress.com/