Publications and Media
Selected Publications and Media Engagement. If you are interested in working with Rachel, please email her at r.bynoth@bathspa.ac.uk
Media
Radio
Rachel has appeared on local radio, BBC Bristol, as a guest discussing her work on love letters and anxiety.
Television
Rachel has appeared on several TV shows, including Queens That Changed the World Season 2 and Sky History's Mayhem! The Scandalous Lives of the Georgian Kings
Popular Publications
Rachel has written for The Conversation, blogs for Royal Historical Society and Social History Society, and press releases on her research for Bath Spa University
Podcasts
Rachel has appeared on podcasts including History of Education and Lol: My Praxis. She has also done recorded conversations for History UK on History and Student Engagement, and recordings for Bath Spa University on Wicked Problems.
Selected Publications
ANXIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LETTERS: FAMILY LIFE AND IDENTITY IN THE CANNING CORRESPONDENCE
Book: IN PROGRESS
BOOK REVIEW: MCCORMACK, MATTHEW, RUTH LARSEN AND ALICE MARPLES EDS, INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING HISTORY: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION (LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS, 2024)
ANXIETY AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL FOR ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Forthcoming, early 2027
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BATH MARRIAGE MART REASSESSED
in edited volume Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Ballroom, Routledge, 2025
POSTCARD: THE 188-PAGE LETTER-MEMOIR: MARY ANNE CANNING'S LIFE WRITING AS A DEFENCE OF HER MOTHERHOOD
in edited volume Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange, Bloomsbury, 2026
​DISTANT COMMUNICATIONS: BEYOND DEATH SPECIAL ISSUE
Cultural and Social History, February 2024
This is a special issue derived from the Distant Communications conference in July 2021. I co-authored the 'Introduction' with Ellen Smith and was co-guest editor
Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2025
A MOTHER EDUCATING HER DAUGHTER REMOTELY THROUGH FAMILIAL CORRESPONDENCE: THE LETTER AS A FORM OF FEMALE DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
History Journal, 2022
WHAT ONE GEORGIAN FAMILY CAN TEACH US ABOUT WRITING LETTERS IN THE AGE OF ZOOM,
The Conversation, 2021, https://theconversation.com/what-one-georgian-family-can-teach-us-about-writing-letters-in-the-age-of-zoom-163777
LIZ TRUSS IS NOW THE UK'S SHORTEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER - HOW DOES SHE STACK UP AGAINST GEORGE CANNING WHO PREVIOUSLY HELD THE RECORD?