Rachel Feldberg
Research Associate

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Biography

Rachel Feldberg was awarded a PhD in History from the University of York in 2026, following a BA at the University of Cambridge and masters at Leeds and York. She works on the social history of knowledge and her thesis examined middling women’s engagement with natural knowledge in domestic and public settings, from the dairy to the lecture hall, in the late eighteenth century. Broader research interests include science-adjacent material in eighteenth century periodicals, and  Yorkshire’s role in the global trade in enslaved people. 

She received York Georgian Society’s Patrick Nuttgens award and has taught at York University’s  Department of History. Publications include Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778–1824) which she co-edited with Matthew Eddy and Jane Rendall (The Boydell Press, 2026) and ‘Absent Bodies?’ in Letters and the Body, 1700-1830 ed. Goldsmith, Haggerty and Harvey (Routledge 2023). 

She is currently writing a chapter for a collected volume on ‘Heretical Measurement’ and working on her first monograph.