@saralread

Senior lecturer in English + historical novelist. Mum + Grandma. Early modern culture: women, bodies, reproductive health. Novel 3 is in progress!

 Midlands, UK
sararead.co.uk
Joined September 2013
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Novels one and two together 😍
Dr Sara Read@saralread28 Mar 2023
My copies have arrived today. Always a lovely moment in an author's life. There is nothing like holding the physical book in your hands after years of work. amazon.co.uk/Midwifes-Truth-…
The cover of The Midwife's Truth by Sara Read. Published by Wild Pressed Books in 2023.

ALT The cover of The Midwife's Truth by Sara Read. Published by Wild Pressed Books in 2023.

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Oh this is sorry news.
Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweetOct 8
Sorry to inform you that @BBCFreeThinking (and Thinking Allowed) have been cancelled as part of cost-saving measures. Last show will go out in April. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Call for Book Chapters on: Religion in Egodocuments: reforc.com/news/call-fo... Deadline for proposals is the end of October 2026. Please share! #reformazing #earlymodern #religion #skystorians
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I made this account when I got a permanent academic job, although I'd been around here from the start. This year marks my 20 th anniversary of teaching in Loughborough English altogether. And it is the year the department turns 60. #MyXAnniversary
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Just finished listening to Frances Quinn's latest novel The Scandalous Ladies Football Club which I thoroughly enjoyed. @franquinn ⚽️👏
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One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band. Rest easy, Dolly 🤘
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Lissa Evans@LissaKEvansJul 31
I’m GIVING AWAY a hardback copy of ‘My Name is MacKenzie Bly’ (out Aug 27th. Retweet by end of tomorrow for prize draw ) with stunning endpapers by illustrator Jim Kay). MB is the alter ego of the dully-named Philip Stephens, here describing his Year 9 work experience allocation.
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Owen Davies@odavies9Jul 8
I'm all for @CountBinface but with my folklorist hat on, I have to call him out on his 99 policy. No evidence for it, and other alternative histories available. See my free article on the history of ice cream vans .... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans

Of all the commercial road vehicles that have toured the streets and tourist spots of Britain, Ireland, America, and Australia over nearly a century, none elicit more popular reminiscence and senti...

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@RJConway92Jul 8
Count Binface manifesto includes: All 99 flake ice creams will be 99p again. Wigan kebab capped at £2 Corners to be refereed properly in football. HS2 to be renamed FFS1 tries in rugby league to be increased from 4 points to 5, in line with inflation 🤣. ELECT HIM NOW!
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Join me if you can at Tamworth Castle on July 21 - entry price includes a glass of Pimms! I'll be talking about Tamworth's Anglo-Saxon connections and on the trail of one Anglo-Saxon woman in particular... (no, not that one!) ticketsource.com/stedithas/a…
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Very interesting piece on writers, neurodiversity, and AI by @megastarN
The Bookseller
@thebooksellerJun 19
I worry about the cognitive cost and the long-term consequences of outsourcing my time and effort. Research into the effects of AI use suggests I am right to be concerned, writes Megan Constable. 👇 ebx.sh/ILPvnJ

Mixed feelings: neurodiversity, authorship and AI

Machine learning tools can support neurodiverse authors with their writing – but should they use them?

ebx.sh
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Conference dog reporting for his first tour of duty #IWWA26
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Alun Withey@DrAlunJun 4
A question for fashion historians: I’ve come across a reference to “cordibecks for travelling” in an 18th century . I think these might be hats. Can anybody confirm or correct?!.
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Nic Dakin MP@NicDakin55May 13
Off to Buckingham Palace to be the “hostage” ensuring HM The King’s safe return when he opens Parliament - a tradition dating back to Charles I. Not sure I’m looking forward to it, but glad to play my part!
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There was an employer on the radio only this morning saying that in an AI age, he's going to be favouring humanities graduates over STEM.
Owen Davies@odavies9May 7
So, my university is wiping out all Humanities teaching.
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First time voter! #DogsAtPollingStations
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Horrible news. Thinking of everyone.
Owen Davies@odavies9May 7
So, my university is wiping out all Humanities teaching.
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Sarah Bendall@SarahABendallMay 1
Look what arrived this week!! Advanced author copies of my next book @BloomsburyFashn. 📚 I’m so thrilled to see it in the flesh - 5 years & hundreds of transcribed household bills later! Out in July-August. Preorder link in my bio! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern
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Delighted to announce that the spring 2026 issue of Early Modern Women is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews #EarlyModern journals.uchicago.edu/toc/em…

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 21, No 1

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New piece in @ConversationUK about the time when March 25 was the start of a new year. theconversation.com/lady-day…

Lady Day: March 25 was the start of the year in England and Wales until 1752

The financial year still starts around this time.

theconversation.com
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Alun Withey@DrAlunMar 16
If anyone happens to have any references to cuts or rashes caused by shaving in the 17th or 18th centuries, particularly in letters or diaries, I would be very grateful.
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Naomi Baker@DrNaomiBakerMar 8
Happy International Women’s Day - I’m celebrating Rose Thurgood, a poor woman with a “hard and hungry” stomach who supported her four children alone after being abandoned by her husband - and found the inspiration to write one of the earliest English autobiographies in the 1630s
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