DrRachel Bynoth
- Lecturer in Design (Historical and Critical Studies)
- Email: r.bynoth@bathspa.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)1225 875829
- School: Bath School of Design
- Campus: Locksbrook Campus
- Website:
Personal statement
Rachel is a Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies. Her research focuses on anxiety, emotion, social, political and gender history from 1700 to 1945, with a particular interest in letters, communication, distance and consumption practices.
Rachel's PhD research was funded by the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWWDTP) which looks at anxiety through the lifecycle, using the familial letters of the Canning family from 1760-1830, to nuance understandings of remote relationships and communications through letters. She was a seminar co-convenor for History Lab, the postgraduate wing of the Institute for Historical Research and History editor for the SWWDTP student-led journal, Question.
As an advocate for decolonisation, intersectionality and diverse voices and perspectives, Rachel is part of Bath Spa's Decolonisation Steering Group, which looks at decolonisation initiatives across the university. She is also on the working group for the development of BSECS' EDI policy.
She also has a particular interest in student engagement, having previously worked as the Representation and Advice Co-ordinator at Bath Spa Students' Union and is keen to support engagement projects and initiatives, especially in relation to co-creation and student voice.
Academic qualifications
- BA - Bath Spa University
- MA - Bath Spa University
- PhD - Bath Spa University.
Professional memberships
- Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Other external roles
- Postgraduate Researcher/Early Career Researcher Committee Member for British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2022-present.
Teaching specialism
History in the following areas:
- Emotions
- Gender
- Consumption
- Leisure and pleasure
- 18th and 19th century society
- Politics
- Satire
- Letters
- History of communication
- George Canning
- Health and wellbeing.
What can Bath Spa staff and students contact you about?
Please get in touch about:
- Research Activities
- Historical and Critical Studies (HACS) in Design
- HE pedagogic practice in Design and/or History
- PhD supervision in 18th/19th emotions/letters/communications/society/gender/relationships.
Research and academic outputs
The IHR's seminar culture: past, present and future - a roundtable discussion
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Bates, D, Prochaska, A, Hitchcock, T, Wilcox, K, Smith, E and Bynoth, R (2024) 'The IHR's seminar culture: past, present and future - a roundtable discussion.' In: Manning, D, ed. Talking history: seminar culture at the Institute of Historical Research, 1921–2021. University of London Press, pp. 243-266. ISBN 9781915249050
Distant communications: beyond death
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Bynoth, R and Smith, E (2024) 'Distant communications: beyond death.' Cultural and Social History, 21 (3). pp. 305-318. ISSN 1478-0038
A mother educating her daughter remotely through familial correspondence: the letter as a form of female distance education in the eighteenth century
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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 (373). pp. 727-750. ISSN 1468-229X
Anxious expressions: remote relationships in the Canning correspondence network 1760-1830
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Bynoth, R (2024) Anxious expressions: remote relationships in the Canning correspondence network 1760-1830. PhD thesis, Bath Spa University.
Emotions in Europe 1517–1914, Vol. 4, Transformations 1789–1914 [book review]
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Bynoth, R (2021) Emotions in Europe 1517–1914, Vol. 4, Transformations 1789–1914 [book review]. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 5 (2). pp. 355-357. ISSN 2206-7485