EarlyModernista

*history of walking

'Fundamental changes in walking from 500 years ago continue to impact us today' Dr Eleanor Rycroft takes the challenge of girls' and women's safety back to its historical roots in the Renaissance

My response to a recent Bristol 24/7 article which attempts to nuance the history of my walking as an exclusionary practice, and to think through some possible solutions:

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Oh dearie me, this "3000 words" on St. Paul's Cathedral is currently 6757 words and counting.

If you're desperate to hear @gregmw4.bsky.social and I talk predrama, sign up to become a patron of Beyond Shakespeare! Otherwise I will retweet again when it's free :)

Just putting it out there, while I still have the privilege of a Fellowship for next 6 months, that if early modern ECRs need me to read cover letters, funding apps, article drafts, book proposals, etc, I am happy to take some of these on (with the proviso that I will reach capacity at some point!)

A real joy to put my work into dialogue with Roberta Magnani's at Swansea University's MEMO event today. Many thanks to @sally-barnden.bsky.social for the invitation to do so!

Looks like it, just waiting for confirmation from KCL about the date though...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
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We have a sniffer. I repeat. We have a sniffer. #traintales

You can use BL images but not necessarily to a high enough resolution for publication.

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This is an interesting opportunity and, more importantly, a three year one...

Agreed

The only other thing that strikes me to add to others' suggestions is the practice of having someone on horseback ride before a performing guild, like the boy riders at Chester.

Walking Writers Salon - Because the streets belong to everyone - Morag Rose in conversation with Polly Atkin Morag Rose, author of the widely acclaimed The Feminist Art of Walking will be joined in conversation with author and poet Polly Atkin for our first Walking Writers Salon on 2026. For over 20 yea...

Walking Writers Salon – Because the streets belong to everyone – Morag Rose in conversation with Polly Atkin – walk · listen · create share.google/8QRa7yYgQIOC... This is marvelous and was great for resetting my thinking about walking as political engagement.

This is a good read.

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Thank you!

Yay!! I'll drop you a line - still on the Bath Spa email?

Please Tracey - I would find it so useful to walk and talk with you! I'm potentially in London on 1st April (after lunch with Tom and Greg) and 29th, before giving paper at the London Shakespeare Seminar...

2000 words this morning. Not all good words - but words!!

and the representation of pleasure gardens and other outdoor spaces - parks and piazza - on the indoor stage.

Next week onto London in earnest! And thanks and sacrifices of biros to the writing gods for supporting me this month.

Been in a real flow state with writing about walking and class in the last couple of weeks. Have been working through ideas of courtesy/civility, the building of new walking places in the early modern period and promenading, recreation and exercise in dialogue with ideas around health and plague,

If you want a really informative and humane podcast about early modern medicine - its principles and its personnel - I can highly recommend Alanna Skuse's How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England from Not Just the Tudors
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Also

RaceB4Race Love - YouTube Recordings from the January 2026 Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium.This symposium explored the concept of love in the broadest sense. How does race inform the way...

Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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Bristol County Boundary 1373 - Google My Maps Map showing the boundary of the city and county of Bristol from 1373-1835. The position of the shirestones (boundary markers) are marked and numbered as located on the 1828 Ashmead map of Bristol, bas...

Maybe we should attempt Evan Jones' Bristol civic perambulation - 9 miles mind, might have to do it in stages!
Bristol County Boundary 1373
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Thanks Tracey - I'm working on London right now and I really want to do one of your walking tours if possible! Anything planned?

Thanks Andy - second person to tag me in this! @markhailwood.bsky.social is a colleague at Bristol though we never seem to find the time to talk early modern walking, but Mark - we are both on research leave and should!

when someone asks for another set of eyes on something

that’s a call for peepers