Participant Info

First Name
Rachel
Last Name
Bynoth
Affiliation
Bath Spa University
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Keywords
Emotions, anxiety, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, gender, family, relationships, lifecycle, letters, satirical prints, UK PM George Canning and his family, material culture,
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About Me

I am currently writing up my PhD entitled The Language of Love?: Expressions of Anxiety in the Canning Family Correspondence Network. My expertise is in social, cultural and gender history, especially looking at emotions, families and relationships in letter writing.

Recent Publications

BYNOTH, R. (2021), A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century. History, 106: 727-750 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-229X.13237

Media Coverage
Written for The Conversation UK and also had coverage by History First (Journalist Mark Bridges)
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, England, United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Material Culture, Politics, Women