Rachel Pope

Rachel Pope FSA is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Europe. She is Reader in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool.^[1]

Rachel Pope
Occupation	archaeologist
Academic background
Alma mater	Durham University
Thesis	Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c2500 BC – AD 500
Academic work
Institutions	University of Liverpool

Education

Pope undertook undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Durham University.^[1] Her PhD thesis was entitled "Prehistoric Dwelling: circular structures in north and central Britain c 2500 BC - AD 500", was awarded in 2003, and funded partly through support provided by the British Federation of Women Graduates and St Mary's College.^[2]

Career

In 2004 Pope held an early career fellowship at the University of Leicester.^[1] Pope's research includes Iron Age hillforts,^[3] the Celts, and gender.

Pope has directed excavations at the Kidlandlee Dean Bronze Age Landscapes Project (Northumberland) and Eddisbury Hillfort, Merrick’s Hill (Cheshire), and at Penycloddiau Hillfort.^[1] She co-edited the volume The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent with Colin Haselgrove, which provided a thorough "overview of research into the early first millennium BC".^[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.^[5] Pope is director of British Women Archaeologists.^[6] She is a key member of campaign to stop development at Old Oswestry Hillfort.^[7] Pope was featured in the Leonora Saunders and TrowelBlazers Raising Horizons exhibition as Margaret Guido.^[8]

Pope was one of the authors, all of whom "have experienced prolonged covid-19 symptoms, and have participated in various kinds of Long Covid advocacy", of an October 2020 opinion piece in The BMJ on the importance of using the "patient made" term Long Covid.^[9]

Selected publications

• Pope, R. E. (2007). Ritual and the roundhouse: a critique of recent ideas on domestic space in later British prehistory. In C. C. Haselgrove, & R. E. Pope (Eds.), The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow: 204-228.
• Ghey, E., Edwards, N., and Pope, R. (2007) Characterising the Welsh Roundhouse: chronology, inhabitation and landscape, Internet Archaeology 23. doi:10.11141/ia.23.1
• Pope, R. (2011). Processual archaeology and gender politics. The loss of innocence. Archaeological Dialogues 18(01): 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203811000134
• Pope, R. E., & Ralston, I. B. M. (2011). Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent. In L. Armada, & T. Moore (eds), Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pope, R. E. (2012). Gender in British Prehistory. In D. Bolger (eds), A Companion to Gender Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Pope, R. E. (2015). Bronze Age architectural traditions: dates and landscapes. In F. Hunter, & I.B.M. Ralston (eds), Scotland in Later Prehistoric Europe. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Pope, R. E. (2018). Gender and society in Iron Age Europe. In C. C. Haselgrove, K. Rebay-Salisbury, & P. Wells (eds) Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Pope, R. (2022). Re-approaching Celts: Origins, society, and social change. Journal of Archaeological Research, 1-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1