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Rachel Adcock @RachelCAdcock

Reader in English at Keele University | seventeenth-century women/religion researcher | advocate for Humanities careers | co-tweets for @English_Keele

Joined July 2009
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Had a wonderful time last week talking to visitors at @tatton_park library about everyday reading in the 19th century with my colleague Jon Shears. #booksinboards #familyreading
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Come and work with my excellent colleagues @drnickseager and @SiobhanTalbott on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship: Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection, 1704-1812 #phd #postgrad keele.ac.uk/study/postgradua…
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It was wonderful to receive an award at last night’s #CelebratingStaffSuccess event for our work on the Humanities placement modules. Thank you to the colleagues who nominated us! 💚
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Keele English and Creative Writing@English_Keele
25 Oct 2024
Many congratulations to Professor Jon Shears @English_Keele whose Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron has just been published by OUP! 🎉🎉🎉
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Keele English and Creative Writing@English_Keele
17 Oct 2024
Did anyone actually read the books in country house libraries? @English_Keele PGR Rachel Daley writes for @PGCountryHouse (Spoiler: they did!) countryhouseresearch.com/blo…

Did Anyone Actually Read the Books in the Country House Library? — The PGECR Country House Group

Spoiler Alert - they did! Mark Purcell, the former libraries curator at the National Trust, writes in his 2002 article ‘The Country House Library Reassessed’, that ‘for all too many people who pass...

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Always a highlight of the year - today on our Humanities placements module we heard from some of our fabulous placement providers who are offering roles this year. Thanks so much to @NSCGNewcastle @KeeleCommsBrand @SherwoodTrust and @PlayfulAims @KeeleLibrary
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Dr Sara Read@saralread
4 Oct 2024
Come and do a PhD with me if you're into historical fiction set in civil war era England. #histfic #phdresearch #HistoryMatters
Loughborough English@lboroenglish
4 Oct 2024
NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Women in Historical Fiction of the English Civil War Era lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua… @saralread
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What a pleasure to co-examine a brilliant thesis today by Tracey Jones @English_Keele on The Emotional History of the Gothic Novel (with @drdanielcook and @GreenBowlerHat)! Congratulations to Dr Jones and her supervisory team @drnickseager @BeckyYearling and Jon Shears 🦇🏰📖
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More “Joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn” in @guardian this week! theguardian.com/stage/articl…

A Netflix film, statue and a newly discovered first edition: joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake

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Keele English and Creative Writing@English_Keele
11 Jul 2024
Congratulations to all our English and Creative Writing students who graduated yesterday! We're so proud of all they've achieved and we'll miss them... 🎓🥂🎉🍾🪩 #KeeleGraduation
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AphraBehnConference2024@AphraConference
4 Jul 2024
What an end to our wonderful conference. We had director @lovedayIngram along with actors @alexgRSC and Samuel Collings come to discuss @TheRSC 2016 The Rover by Aphra Behn with readings of some epic scenes.
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Abby Hammond@abshammond_
5 Jul 2024
Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at @wabbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻
Pink and purple flowers in a wreath shape laid on top of a black marble floor slab incised with “Mrs Aphra Behn” upon it, surrounded by conference delegates

ALT Pink and purple flowers in a wreath shape laid on top of a black marble floor slab incised with “Mrs Aphra Behn” upon it, surrounded by conference delegates

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Dr Katie Aske@KatieAske
3 Jul 2024
Another day of wonderful papers at the #AphraConference and I got talk about beauty, morality and disease on this incredible panel with Ceri Fowler and Hannah Straw!
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The main business of the conference closes with a plenary by Loveday Ingram, Director of @TheRSC’s 2016 production of Behn’s The Rover, accompanied by compelling performances of Angellica Bianca and Willmore’s exchanges 🗡️🔫 #AphraConference (Westminster Abbey tomorrow!)
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Charlotte Cornell’s plenary on Behn’s Kentish Beginnings begins! #fullhouse #AphraConference
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Excellent panel yesterday on beauty and VD with @KatieAske, Hannah Straw, and @English_Keele’s Ceri Fowler 💄🍆 #AphraConference
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Excellent conference dinner last night - only slight raucous 😂 #AphraConference
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Full house for @_MelEvans plenary on Behn’s spying letters 👀 #AphraConference
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Thought-provoking performance of Behn’s The Amorous Prince this evening - superbly acted with insights from the cast 👏👏👏 Go and see it!! #AphraConference
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Gorgeous talk by sculptor Christine Charlesworth on Canterbury’s new Behn statue - looking forward to posing with her soon! #AphraConference
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