olivia 🌻

AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD student at The University of Birmingham, studying Shakespeare’s non-English mothers. Auntie and dog mom.

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I’m slowly moving over to Bluesky - find me here! https://t.co/1I7P5Ti38w ✨

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@MargoGalvin Thanks for your kind words, Margo! As my supervisor says, it will only make the eventual result even sweeter. 😌

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I got “revise and resubmit” on my PhD thesis yesterday, which wasn’t the outcome I was hoping for or that my supervisors had anticipated. Whilst I’m pretty devastated, I think it’s important to share the setbacks as well as the good stuff. Round two, we go again 🤞

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Only just had chance to post about it, but so enjoyed @LydiaJIV’s talk yesterday on race-making in civic performance. Delivered so beautifully and a fascinating area of expanding research. Thanks to @HolehouseLucy for organising!

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@sallybutcher Thanks so much Sally! There’s been an appeal (of sorts) and I’m feeling a lot brighter now. I can’t say much on here ofc but things are looking up. Hope you’re doing well! 💕

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The RSC casually casting Sam Heughan aka Jamie Fraser aka love of my life as Macbeth … take all of my money, every penny

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@emily_ottley Thank you, Emily! Trying to see the positives now, but it’s a tough one!

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@ThatShakespeare Thank you Cassidy!! 🤗

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Classing this as essential viva prep reading … such an important topic, especially with the state of reproductive rights in America and other countries across the world.

[Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 @MMoR_KCL]

The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! https://t.co/PmnqAuoQO3 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory

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So enjoyed the wonderful Victorian Radicals exhibition at @BM_AG! The Pre-Raphaelites had such a vivid way of using colour, portraying emotions/intimacy and depicting (some) of the women in their artwork.

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@MargoGalvin Not yet! It will hopefully be in 2-3 months 😌

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1st of November and an entirely new chapter for me … Three years, 79,000 words and just a viva to go until I’m officially #PhDone. Thank you so much @Midlands4Cities & my amazing supervisors @DrCLaoutaris & @BurtonsAnatomy for making this possible!

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@MargoGalvin Thanks Margo!! And thank you for helping with the misericord information - it’s a key part of one of my chapters!! X

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@sallybutcher Thank you!! Hope your thesis is going amazingly - I can’t wait to see the final product 💕xx

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@danjohnsonhymns It has been very odd this morning - I keep looking at my laptop and thinking I don’t need to open you for a while 😂

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@seatofwisdomopn Thanks Anna!! So kind of you! ☺️

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@Labiofy Thank you very much!! 😌

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@danjohnsonhymns Thanks Dan!! And thank you for all your wonderful words of advice!!

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@emily_ottley Thank you so much!! So correct on the sleep side of things…this last week has been a wild ride 😂💤