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Rebecca Hutcheon

@drbekahutcheon.bsky.social
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Research Fellow @USW, C19th literature, spatial theory, digital humanities, walking, black metal, black coffee and animals.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 17/09/2026
From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.
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Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life
From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Usually my literary pilgrimages end with me on gazing doubtfully up at a house, supposedly where some obscure C19th novelist lived and wrote, which looks suspiciously like something c1910. Nothing like a plaque as affirmation.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This letter to the LRB perfectly captures the shocking catastrophe of UK HE. And the fact that no-one seems to care.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13/01/2026
The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into a tool of exclusion.
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English lessons shouldn’t be an immigration test – why the UK’s new policy risks deepening exclusion
The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into a tool of exclusion.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
While lists of 2025 albums, or gigs, or books or achievements might be more popular, this 2025 by way of road signs is perhaps less usual and maybe more achievable...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Delighted to announce that the University of South Wales will host the British Digital Games Research Association #BDiGRA 2026 conference in Cardiff. Theme: Who We Are and Why: #periphery & #identity. Call for papers: bdigra.co.uk/bdigra-2026-... #BritishDiGRA #GamesStudies #GamesResearch
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BDiGRA 2026 – University of South Wales, Cardiff – Conference Announcement and Call For Papers – British DiGRA
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ever wondered what 1890s London would look like in Minecraft? Now's your chance to find out with this world I built with Sally Bushell, Blockworks and @lselibrary.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar... #minecraft #victorian #history
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Minecraft world brings Victorian London to life
Experience created by academics and Minecraft builders gives an insight into what life was like in Victorian London.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
If anyone's in the area of Dove Cottage, Grasmere tomorrow, come along and hear me and others explain how (and why you might want) to build literary worlds in Minecraft wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2025/08...
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Minecraft meets Wordsworth - Wordsworth Grasmere
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Jeffrey Barbeau @jeffbarbeau.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Love this idea! Minecraft + Wordsworth. Can't wait to learn more about this and other worlds in LitCraft from Lancaster University.
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Minecraft meets Wordsworth - experience for free this August
In what is possibly the most imaginative cultural crossovers yet, the globally popular game Minecraft, has been reimagined into a unique way for kids to engage with history thanks to a collaboration b...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
@bloodstockopenair.bsky.social Letter to BOA concerning the line-up for 2026. Having emailed the organisers, & not getting a response, I'm making the letter public. Turns out 'for the fans' isn't all fans. #sophielancasterfoundation #metalforgood #bloodstockopenair #metalmusic #metalukraine
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This, from Dorothy Richardson, is quite frankly the best Reformation joke I've ever heard.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#JobAlert Come & work with us! USW is looking for a Research Fellow who has experience in performance & immersive technology, with a focus on the way it intersects with the skills & innovation challenges facing the creative industries. #ResearchFellow #ImmersivePerformance #ImmersiveTech #ApplyNow
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
How many more articles?! It's an affront seeing great swathes of buildings under reconstruction whilst at the same time losing brilliant colleagues from those self same campuses... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ed Kiely · Short Cuts: University Finances
Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#Geohumanities #AcademicSky The launch of the new Geohumanities Platform is a month away! When? Wednesday 9th July 10am-1pm Where? Glamorgan Building (Rm 3.51), King Edward VII Ave. Cardiff With? Dr Rebecca Hutcheon (USW) & Prof. Jon Anderson (Cardiff) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geohumanit...
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Geohumanities Platform Launch
Come join us for the exciting launch of our Geohumanities Platform where we explore the intersections of geography and the humanities!
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is an open invitation to participate in & publish on a new Geohumanities Platform from colleagues at Cardiff University. The Platform will be launched at an in-person event in Cardiff University on Wednesday 9th July 10am-1pm (Glamorgan Building, Room 3.51) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geohumanit...
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Geohumanities Platform Launch
Come join us for the exciting launch of our Geohumanities Platform where we explore the intersections of geography and the humanities!
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Oh, I don't like the look of this at all...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Come along to the exciting launch of our Geohumanities Platform where we explore the intersections of geography & the humanities! When? 10-1, 9.7.25 Where? Glamorgan Building (Rm 3.51), King Edward VII Ave. Cardiff Who? Dr Rebecca Hutcheon & Prof. Jon Anderson www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geohumanit...
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Geohumanities Platform Launch
Come join us for the exciting launch of our Geohumanities Platform where we explore the intersections of geography and the humanities!
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What were you doing on the 8th of November 2011? Buying some shoes. Anything else? Doing some reading which somehow connected Aristotle and Derrida (the classic pair). What it was to be a first year PhD student...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Job Alert! We are looking for a Research Fellow (0.8 FTE) to join the USW Media Cymru team working on screen industries research, supporting training evaluation, pathways to impact and impact analysis. Closing date 6th May so don’t hang about! ce0091li.webitrent.com/ce0091li_web...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 22/04/2025
Set in a fictionalised Bristol, William explores the pressures of class, gender and modernity.
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Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit
Set in a fictionalised Bristol, William explores the pressures of class, gender and modernity.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Last year I (re)discovered E. H Young and have been reading everything of hers I can get my hands on. Her novel, William, is 100 years old this year and I can't recommend it enough. I've written about it for #theconversation here: theconversation.com/once-a-bests... #author #literature #moderism
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Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit
Set in a fictionalised Bristol, William explores the pressures of class, gender and modernity.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Join me for a literary walking tour celebrating 225 years of Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition! #lyra #bristol #coleridge #wordsworth www.lyrafest.com
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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’m hosting the event on Romantic poetry as part of this. 25 April: New Lyrical Ballads: Coleridge and Wordsworth. Book here: www.lyrafest.com#e126198
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Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@lyrafest.com runs from 25th April to 4th May featuring readings, workshops, slams, walking tours, open mics, and a poetry retreat. The 2025 theme, Weird and Wild, explores nature, rewilding, and otherness through poetry. www.lyrafest.com
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Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
To anyone in or near Bristol (or who fancies a trip), check out this year's Lyra Poetry Fest programme. Lots of free events, including this: www.lyrafest.com#e126198 with two old colleagues. It promises to be a fantastic evening; do come along if you can!
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I think some better advice would be: 'keep it closed'...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How do you map landscapes from #literature? Can we build a digital twin of the whole of #Wales? Is the technology used to build #videogame worlds useful for architecture and urban landscapes? Join the first Fieldnotes Stiwdio & learn more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-note...
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Field Notes Stiwdio
Science and the arts, come together in 90 minutes of lightning talks and networking
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Flowers in Cardiff looking very pretty. The bin really sets the daffodils off.
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Now *this* is a sense of humour in adversity.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Take the petulant child's new toy away. Trump should not be invited back. Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Beautiful sunrise, beautiful sunset and springtime flowers. Moments of joy in an otherwise bleak week.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Litcraft, a free resource that makes accurate scale models of literary worlds in Minecraft to re-engage children with reading through play, are looking for new #library partners in South Wales & the South West! #minecraft @cardiff-hub.bsky.social @cardiff-hub.bsky.social @francestout.bsky.social
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Litcraft: Bringing the Text to Life through Minecraft
Litcraft is an educational resource that makes accurate scale models of literary worlds in Minecraft to re-engage children with reading through play.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What's that?! You're trying to write? I'll just be here loudly clambering around the bookshelves if you need me.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Recently published in the Migrations and Identities series: From Rupture to Refuge by Peter Sloane (@sweetburlingame.bsky.social) is the first book to bring together 21st century refugee fiction and life writing. Discover more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
In the middle of the image, white text on a grey background reads 'A wide-ranging genre study and textual analysis of refugee fiction and memoir.' Next to the text on the right, the book cover for From Rupture to Refuge by Peter Sloane. In the bottom right corner, the LUP logo.
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Association for Welsh Writing in English @awwe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Only a few days after the Cardiff shock, we hear of major redundancies at Bangor and University of South Wales, including the closure of English. Our sympathies to staff and students affected, and to the communities left without provision in our field and so many others.
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A book review of Francesca Mackenney's Birdsong, Speech, and #Poetry was published in @thetls.bsky.social - written by Sara Lodge. #Romantic & #Victorian poetry inspired by #birdsong #AcademicSky #NatureWriting #NineteenthCentury #poets www.the-tls.co.uk/literature-b...
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Romantic and Victorian poets inspired by birdsong
People have, for centuries, taught birds to talk. Alec Guinness had a parrot that could recite lines from Hamlet. They have also imagined what birds’
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
✨📖OUT NOW!📖✨ New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping, by me & Sally Bushell. Want to know how we can harness the #digital to find new ways of understanding spatial meaning in the humanities? Read all about it: tinyurl.com/digilitmapping #digitalhumanities #cambridgeelements #19thcentury
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New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping
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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New Element in Digital Literary Studies out here, free for two weeks -- spatial / mapping folks take note: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping
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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Q: Who'd have predicted that an underfunded HE system where unis could overrecruit domestic students on fees fixed for decade - and was thus reliant on international visitors - would have been skewered by a combination xenophobic policies, inflation, and excessive building projects? A: EVERYONE.
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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Giving up meat this January? The idea's not as new as you might think...https://theconversation.com/what-george-gissings-fiction-reveals-about-vegetarianism-in-victorian-london-246381 #georgegissing; #veganuary #victorianliterature
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