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Rebecca Anne Barr

@rabarr.bsky.social
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Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irishwoman navigating the fens and the English middle classes. From Oct 2026 50% @crasshlive.bsky.social

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 Open for applications Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Apply to spend time at CRASSH as a salaried fellow from September 2027 to May 2028 ⬆️ Read the eligibility criteria and FAQs at bit.ly/44IBme6 ⏳ Apply by 16 October 2026
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Visit our 25th anniversary exhibition! 🎉 Knowledge in a Fractured World CRASSH, CB3 9DP 5 Oct- 11 Dec 9am-7pm weekdays PV 19 Oct 5.30pm RSVP bit.ly/3VBgR1x A showcase of interdisciplinary research alongside a fascinating collection of works by international artists.
Knowledge in a Fractured World exhibition.List of exhibitors.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Last weekend I had the honor of intro-ing a talk/book signing w/ @dbellonby.bsky.social, co-ed of Victorian Gaslighting. Diana also talked abt her essay in this book—New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions. I’ve been thinking about her talk—& the book—all week. sunypress.edu/Books/N/New-...
The cover of New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions

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Michael T. Dango
Erin A. Spampinato
Doreen Thierauf
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so sorry for your loss. There is much gentleness in that photo.
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Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...
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Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth
Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!
Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks @yesthewholebook.bsky.social! I am very slow.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Season of mists and mellow proofingness. #proofs #typos
a title page of proofs for a book entitled KILLJOY COMEDY.
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CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Announcing the 2027 CSECS Conference, in Trois-Rivières, Québec (October 20-23, 2027), on "Pleasures and Social Life in the 18th Century". Deadline for submissions is January 11, 2027. tr2027.csecs.ca
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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN and the completion of her JOURNAL OF SORROW. #LastManat200 theconversation.com/lessons-for-...
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Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
The catastrophic story is familiar, but the insight, and the ending, offer an opportunity, and perhaps motivation, for modern readers.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Visiting fellowship for PhD students in medical humanities at Upsala www.uu.se/en/centre/me...
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Call for applications: Visiting PhD-student position in Medical Humanities, Uppsala University, spring semester 2027 – Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) – Uppsala University
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
wow! what a triple whammy. hope there's a lovely cake after the fast.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"what can be the value of a degree earned under these conditions, what happens to the qualification's authority, prestige, psychological significance and door-unlocking capacities, not just into jobs but into communities, reading worlds, lives of thought?"
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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to be in London on October 9th to read/ chat with one of my favourite living writers, Daniela Cascella. We'll be talking about our new books from @erratumpress.bsky.social and @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Free tickets at link below 💙 www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-boo...
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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon
In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mes amis ont un goût excellent. 😘
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Many thanks Declan!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you! *A Funny Thing* is in there, helping me think about the mess that is now/was then.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
❤️
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
thank you!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks Dave! see you at ASECS?
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
xx
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks Peadar! hope our paths cross again in the future. enjoyed singing your praises in unison with Nigel Leask a few years back k.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
👊 Thanks Dr Burlinson!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks, Martin! hope you"re well.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fucking hell. That's jaw-droppingly insensitive. I'm sorry---and appalled.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
scrabbled together between everything else. I envy those leisurely books put together by magisterial people with long term research leave and functional bodies.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks Stephen! Hope you're keeping well.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
THIS! Snooty little beast who looks like he may have fallen out of the bottom of the horse. I laughed so much when the press sent it. That is a rare occurrence with book covers.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
haha! it doesn't quite feel like that (and certain colleagues out there would definitely disagree!) but that means a lot. :)
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Aren't they just? I suggested the image but the genius is all theirs!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you both! Most kind.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you, Tina!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks, Matthew! I write one book for every 3 you do but I am relieved to get it out.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yeyy!
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
thank you! I am VERY happy with the cover.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/
A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe I'm getting soft in my middle age, but I really dislike this.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I and many college teachers have seen this IRL and it is astonishing actually — the vacant look, the shifting eyes, the final attempt to start saying something & then it just stops. “I have trouble remembering things after I write them down,” the most memorable guy told me— and then stared at me
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Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This headline sounds like it's from The Onion.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A book should NOT be req'd for tenure--esp now w/ the inordinate pressures on peer review. It puts untenable demands on scholars & publishers AND enables tenure committees to shirk their duty & blame presses for killing jobs/careers instead of actually engaging scholars' work. It's infuriating.
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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am a middle-aged childless female academic in need of a 2026-7 pocket diary and HELL will FREEZE OVER before I give in and purchase something called a 'Mum's Diary'...🤬😱😭
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Membership in Club White is not guaranteed especially for recent entrants
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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'll be reading at UCC library on Culture Night with some of my favourite poets (including Maggie O'Sullivan, Randolph Healy and Aodán McCardle) at the SoundEye Cabaret organised by Fergal Gaynor. Sign up at the link libcal.ucc.ie/event/4574625
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Culture Night at UCC Library: SoundEye Cabaret
Expect the unexpected at the SoundEye Cabaret, an eclectic evening of poetry, performance, music, video, and artistic experimentation. Originally a cornerstone of Cork's SoundEye...
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