Shelley Trower
@shelleytrower.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Roehampton) now novel writing (ACE funded), research community co-facilitator for Survivors' Voices & working with libraries (SWRLS coordinator) in Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Pinned
turbling
thought I'd made this word up and was going to use it anyway (am writing about a 'turbling river'), but it's already olden & I love it
"With moche noyse and turblynge..."
thought I'd made this word up and was going to use it anyway (am writing about a 'turbling river'), but it's already olden & I love it
"With moche noyse and turblynge..."
turbling and turblinge - Middle English Compendium
quod.lib.umich.edu
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
turbling
thought I'd made this word up and was going to use it anyway (am writing about a 'turbling river'), but it's already olden & I love it
"With moche noyse and turblynge..."
thought I'd made this word up and was going to use it anyway (am writing about a 'turbling river'), but it's already olden & I love it
"With moche noyse and turblynge..."
September 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Looking forward to Helen Scales's ocean talk, & also to joining @petermcallister.bsky.social & other contributors to *Cornwall In Short* at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week. 10-11am 27 Sept - Free! Foxgloves!
September 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Looking forward to Helen Scales's ocean talk, & also to joining @petermcallister.bsky.social & other contributors to *Cornwall In Short* at North Cornwall Book Festival in just over a week. 10-11am 27 Sept - Free! Foxgloves!
evading the usual back-to-school blues with news of this new author tour in SW libraries to kick off in Jan 2026 - excited to start planning...
We're excited to be working with @literatureworks.bsky.social on this new author tour in SW libraries, to kick off in Jan 2026, to include writing & reading workshops... thank you to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social National Lottery Projects funding #NationalYearOfReading
We're pleased to share some news of a forthcoming project, once again partnering with @swrls.bsky.social.
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
evading the usual back-to-school blues with news of this new author tour in SW libraries to kick off in Jan 2026 - excited to start planning...
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More than 100 women's rights groups have warned that "racist" attempts to link sexual violence with immigration are putting victims at increased risk. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warning
In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'danger...
www.mirror.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
More than 100 women's rights groups have warned that "racist" attempts to link sexual violence with immigration are putting victims at increased risk. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Beetroot and roses
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Beetroot and roses
solstice sea swim at Lansallos
June 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
solstice sea swim at Lansallos
Bluebells bluebells bluebells
May 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Bluebells bluebells bluebells
pleased to be embarking on a new role as Research Community Facilitator for Survivors' Voices, alongside my writing and library work with @swrls.bsky.social
Survivors Voices : Turning pain into power
Survivors Voices is a survivor-led organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power to improve responses to trauma, through peer support, research, education and activism.
survivorsvoices.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
pleased to be embarking on a new role as Research Community Facilitator for Survivors' Voices, alongside my writing and library work with @swrls.bsky.social
at this midway point of a busy week (currently thinking about reading on the platform at Reading) I've another urge to share my life in categories
3 events that prompted me to reflect/naval gaze on my messy career and tidy things into categories... new blog post! #soundstudies #oralhistory #readingstudies #memorystudies #traumastudies #gothicstudies #literatureandscience etc
categorising things
I have a week of events coming up: • Monday 28 April: giving a guest lecture at Bath Spa University for an English Literature module called ‘Reading Communities’ • Wednesday 30 April: heading to Londo...
shelleytrower.wixsite.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
at this midway point of a busy week (currently thinking about reading on the platform at Reading) I've another urge to share my life in categories
So many lives lost, directly and indirectly - most entirely unreported - over decades... not sure anything much is changing.
I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.
I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.
Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies by suicide
Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to the Duke of York when she was 17, which he has strenuously denied.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
So many lives lost, directly and indirectly - most entirely unreported - over decades... not sure anything much is changing.
I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.
I find the repeated language of 'accuser' frustrating too, as though nothing was proven. Reality is doubted again and again and again.
next week my things to do include a guest lecture for 'Reading Communities' module at @bathspauni.bsky.social, a 2-day @recovery-histories.bsky.social event at Birkbeck (on an advisory grp), then part of a panel @tatestives.bsky.social for the #ithelcolquhoun conference :-)
Ithell Colquhoun: The spaces between | Tate St Ives
www.tate.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
next week my things to do include a guest lecture for 'Reading Communities' module at @bathspauni.bsky.social, a 2-day @recovery-histories.bsky.social event at Birkbeck (on an advisory grp), then part of a panel @tatestives.bsky.social for the #ithelcolquhoun conference :-)
glad to put this job on the SWRLS website before signing off for the long weekend 📚 would love to see such jobs in every library everywhere forever
#libraries #climateaction
#libraries #climateaction
new job post: Climate Action Development Manager @ Exeter Library - in recognition of how "libraries play an important role in empowering communities to take steps in climate action" 👍
Jobs (All) | Swrls
www.swrls.org.uk
April 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
glad to put this job on the SWRLS website before signing off for the long weekend 📚 would love to see such jobs in every library everywhere forever
#libraries #climateaction
#libraries #climateaction
It's been a quiet couple of months so good to hear that my 2nd novel ms (Star) made this (long) longlist!
March 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's been a quiet couple of months so good to hear that my 2nd novel ms (Star) made this (long) longlist!
I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:
February 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:
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Great to hear from @shelleytrower.bsky.social recently. It reminded me of the beautiful and insightful Living Libraries project she lead in 2019/20. I was lucky enough to be involved in a small way and it is still a wonderful window into libraries as seen by the people working in and using them.
Living Libraries
An AHRC-funded oral history of five UK public libraries, in the words of people who use, work in and run them.
www.livinglibraries.uk
February 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Great to hear from @shelleytrower.bsky.social recently. It reminded me of the beautiful and insightful Living Libraries project she lead in 2019/20. I was lucky enough to be involved in a small way and it is still a wonderful window into libraries as seen by the people working in and using them.
some recent reading, slightly buried among reflections on Cornwall, music and dancing, memory and life stories, and my own books, and recent birthday, in new blog post #Kernow #celticmusic #reading #lifestories #lifewriting #memory #bodykeepsthescore #cornishliterature
A reading diary #3 (or, rather, a few quick thoughts about music with a spot of reading)
When I was 13, a friend whose family was part of a music and dance group called Cam Kernewek invited me along to a ceilidh. I don’t remember the first, but that very shy teenager went back for more, a...
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January 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
some recent reading, slightly buried among reflections on Cornwall, music and dancing, memory and life stories, and my own books, and recent birthday, in new blog post #Kernow #celticmusic #reading #lifestories #lifewriting #memory #bodykeepsthescore #cornishliterature
Reposted by Shelley Trower
Our beautiful anthology Cornwall in Short is on sale shorturl.at/eFigw featuring brilliant work by @timhannigan.bsky.social @emmatimpany.bsky.social @amarkle.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social @stasiawrites.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @kstansfield.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Our beautiful anthology Cornwall in Short is on sale shorturl.at/eFigw featuring brilliant work by @timhannigan.bsky.social @emmatimpany.bsky.social @amarkle.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social @shelleytrower.bsky.social @stasiawrites.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @kstansfield.bsky.social
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I relate to this. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was officially disbanded in 2019. The previous, widespread media coverage of FMS had a highly destructive impact on the lives of many survivors, myself included.
#CSAsurvivorSky #CSA
#CSAsurvivorSky #CSA
Because of it I even doubted my own sanity at the time. I kept my mouth shut for too long because of the narrative surrounding repressed memories.
November 19, 2024 at 10:46 AM
I relate to this. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was officially disbanded in 2019. The previous, widespread media coverage of FMS had a highly destructive impact on the lives of many survivors, myself included.
#CSAsurvivorSky #CSA
#CSAsurvivorSky #CSA
Also book out: Sound Writing
September 5, 2023 at 8:08 AM
Also book out: Sound Writing
Back to school
Covid on trees
Sun beams
Covid on trees
Sun beams
September 5, 2023 at 8:06 AM
Back to school
Covid on trees
Sun beams
Covid on trees
Sun beams