Rachel Peacock
rachelpeacock.bsky.social
Rachel Peacock
@rachelpeacock.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying stalkers of the Victorian monarchy.
https://www.queensu.ca/history/people/peacock-rachel
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Today is World Mental Health Day. Through the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can research the history of mental health. BBIH’s free reading list on the history of emotions highlights some recent scholarship on the history of mental health in the UK and Ireland buff.ly/OK5HSbu
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Building on their Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) internship on medicine and health, @rachelpeacock.bsky.social explores in our latest On History blog Victorian understandings of mental illness through the example of intruders on Queen Victoria’s privacy tinyurl.com/b47xyh34
Medical History and the Bibliography of British and Irish History   - On History
Rachel Peacock recently completed a summer internship at the IHR, where she focused on medical history and health in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. In this blog, she explores…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My video tutorial on using BBIH to research medical history and health is available now!
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has published new tutorial videos focusing on searching BBIH and using BBIH to research the histories of race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, emotions, social class, and health.
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Effective August 1st, we’re cutting tolls on the Confederation Bridge from $50 to $20 — and cutting fares on all interprovincial ferries in half in Atlantic Canada.

Canada’s new government is bringing down costs and building one strong, Canadian economy.
July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Our last #VoicesVisions pre-conference (and very topical) panel, "People, Politics, and Protest in the Victorian Press" is this Friday, June 27! As with previous panels, this event is free and open to all, but you must register for the event to receive the Zoom link: rs4vp.org/june-digital...
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We’ve had a great morning so far at #KQ14 —I was chairing Session 1.1 Staging Queenship with Sheila ffolliott on a masque at the French court on the Portuguese succession crisis, Rachel Peacock on fictional intruders in Queen Victoria’s household & Julia Hamilton on the Stuart queen’s apartments
June 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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We've started our final countdown to Kings and Queens 14! Join us in Lisbon (or online 💻 ) next week for #KQ14: "Beyond the King: Diplomacy, Social Roles and Family Dynamics of Monarchies" 👑

More information is available on our website here: www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/current-conf...

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May 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM