Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈

@benwt.bsky.social

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Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage. Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social

An orange tea towel with manuscript text in white hung on a radiator
Image of Georgian sandstone townhouse with four stories, sash windows, and a blue door
An orange mug and a matching dog bowl
Image of Victorian obelisk marble monuments in a graveyard
A Minton Bisque Porcelain Figure of Hannah More, c. 1835, sat on a chair and place atop of couple of More’s works. modelled after the portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
Image of a male presenting person with brown hair in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford holding a large white envelope
Image of an unbound and rather dirty printed play text on a white cushion. The text is a quarto of Love’s Victim or the Queen of Wales from 1701.
Image of a wooden printing press with a forme of type ready to be printed
Image of a manuscript book on a stand
A brown dog looking out at the quad of royal Holloway. The buildings re red brick and there is a grass quad in the centre.
Picture of a manuscript on a desk with a brown dog below.
Hannah More by Augustin Edouart, cut black paper with wash, 1827, NPG 4501. © National Portrait Gallery, London. This silhouette shows More sitting at a table holding some papers with her inkstand and quill before her.
Image of a 16th century manuscript