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

Loughborough, England
Joined July 2009
Many congratulations to Professor Jon Shears @English_Keele whose Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron has just been published by OUP! 🎉🎉🎉
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Rachel Adcock retweeted
Come and do a PhD with me if you're into historical fiction set in civil war era England. #histfic #phdresearch #HistoryMatters
NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Women in Historical Fiction of the English Civil War Era lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua… @saralread
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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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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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Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at @wabbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻
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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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Replying to @KeeleUniversity
@KeeleUniversity's Latin and Palaeography Summer School is taking bookings! Take introductory or advanced classes, reading #medieval documents in #Latin or #AngloNorman French. More info at: keele.ac.uk/study/cpdandlead… Booking closes 19 July!
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Congratulations to Aliya, one of our talented Humanities placement students, who created this stunning video of Keele woods. It features beautiful words composed by Callum, who is currently studying creative writing with us! 📽️🖊️
Experience the beauty of Keele University through the eyes of one of our talented students! 🌿🎥 During their placement with @SqueakyPedal, Film and Media student Aliya Surti created a stunning video showcasing our arboretum and campus walks. 👏
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Rachel Adcock retweeted
10 month lectureship in Film Studies at Keele University: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN466/lectur…
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Rachel Adcock retweeted
Can anyone recommend some good secondary sources on early modern Quakers in southwest England (esp. Exeter)? This would be much appreciated! @HistoryRosalind @BunyanSociety @mlmpennington @_drsang @stefanovil @WoodbrookeUK @WritingExeter @effjayem
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Huge congratulations to one of our English and Creative Writing students, Maria Conlon, who won the Keele Student Award at the Earth Stories Film Festival on Monday (a global film festival run by Keele students). Check out the film below: ⬇️👀youtube.com/watch?v=174clkCZ…
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'Deborah Huish... Using the Psalms in Writing Faith', by Melissa Marsh, @WritingExeter @UniofExeter – at Poole, England
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📢Coming up on 29 April📢 We are celebrating the end of the semester with a writing showcase from our student community as they launch their Keele University Creative Writing Anthology, The Things We Write 2024 @PandaPressStone | 7.15pm | Keele Chapel | copies available for £8
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Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle c. 1500-49 (Rijksmuseum)
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Great to see this in print and in the wild. Thank you to @RachelCAdcock and @DrDParry for their helpful editing and generous guidance in the publication process. What a fantastic journal!
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🚨Internship alert!🚨 An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.
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Congratulations @Annie5tephenson, @ThomasCliftonA5, @andrewbbsong, @nathansherman, and @RachelCAdcock on their articles, and to Larry Steven McDonald, Cynthia Wall, Bob Owens, and Kathleen Lynch for contributing book reviews! 📖
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Our 2023 issue of Bunyan Studies is out and on its way to members! Guest edited by @WritingExeter (@DrDParry, @NiallAllsopp, @PhilipSchwyzer), the issue focuses on ‘Writing Religious Conflict and Community in the Southwest, 1500-1800’ ✍️
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Rachel Adcock retweeted
Delighted to open registration for this exciting conference I am helping to organise on writing religious identities in the regions of early modern Britain and Ireland and across the globe. Come and join us in Exeter in April!
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our conference Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain (Exeter, 17th-19th April). All welcome! reconex.exeter.ac.uk/events/
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