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Totally. And walking is messy - meandering, to-ing and fro-ing, it goes off course. So does the book!

God I'm sorry

Today, suddenly, I thought, 'No this doesn't look like a book! And, just as walking tends to exceed the theatrical frame, or the visual frame, it also exceeds the monograph frame. Why are you surprised? Make a virtue of it.'

I must be getting older and wiser because I now think of challenges and obstacles in my research as opportunities. I have written about the difficulties of containing the ideas in this walking book in discrete chapters & have spent a number of weeks thinking 'oh no, this doesn't look like a book.'

Ha, re-reading @literasyme.bsky.social and forgot the excellent line about Tarantino cf Dumb and Dumber.

Wonderful, thank you!!

Thanks Lucy! I tried to tag you but you didn't come up for some reason?!

Morning early modernists! Where would I go for a good and full account of the Lord Chamberlain's Men tour of 1594 please?
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Just adding some tags for attention but imagine many of you know!

US politics timeline cleanse

At the end of June I'm talking to English Heads of Essex/Suffolk symposium to introduce the educational package to the experts. That also gives me the opportunity to take in @norajw.bsky.social's Richard II in Wivenhoe -can't wait!

Oh yeah, also need to write around half the actual book 😂

I was also lucky enough to secure some AHRC IAA Follow-on Funding for our educational work in schools and, in mid-June, we bring Girlhood Reclaimed on-board to help us conduct conversations with teenage girls about their experiences of walking in public space, along with our usual team.

Moving Around and Accessing Bristol: A Creative Workshop - Bristol Walk Fest ‘Moving Around and Accessing Bristol’, a creative workshop facilitated by Breathing Fire and University of Bristol, will involve a creative approach to exploring the histories and lived experiences of...

When I return a tranche of public engagement work begins, including a disability focused workshop as part of Bristol's Walkfest on 28th May. Please do help to spread the word about this if you can!

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A busy few months coming up...

I'm speaking at the London Shakespeare Seminar on 29th April about 'Jetting, Stalking and Strutting' before jetting off myself to the Newberry Library. Whilst there I am talking on 'Women's Walking as Historical Wormhole' for their public facing Colloquium series.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Trump instigates a phoney yet devastating war for no other reason than vanity and wealth and, meanwhile, this is the only type of news that matters.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

This is so ridiculous I love it

Feeling like the absolute crappest parent today. Solidarity with any other caregivers having an emotional Easter "holiday".

100%! Not 10%...pretty important difference.

onus on women to not be attacked - rather than on men to not attack - the gendered and systemic inequalities are more or less intact across 500 years. This is why I call women's safety whilst walking a "historical wormhole" - a collapsing of points of space and time when it comes to this issue.

I have spent an unenviable morning traveling through 20th century newspaper accounts of women attacked whilst walking, and it has 10% reinforced my hunch that very little has changed in underlying attitudes since the early modern period.From notions of deserving/undeserving victims, to placing the

A small stone wrapped in lilac-coloured netting tied with a label inscribed with the words: loyalty laughter empathy love sharing listening generosity love The wrapped stone/label has been is nestling in the sculpture of Daphne (see the alt text on the next photo)

Anna Hirsch-Hennecke Concrete sculpture of 'Daphne' (after Ovid's Metamorphoses) c.1972 Lancaster University Campus abstract rectangle imprinted with a design suggesting leafy tree. The sculpture is surrounded by bay trees

For the past few years, little bags of stone tied with inscribed labels have appeared alongside/ within "Daphne"

#DaphneProjectLancs

#OvidAlert

Who could possibly be leaving them?! 😂

Hair, Beards and the Fashioning of English Manhood in Early Modern Travel Texts Recent scholarship on the early modern body has shown that features such as hair are repositories of cultural meaning, with beards, particularly, emerging as powerful tools of self-fashioning. However...

Academics, is there something that you've published that has slipped under the radar?
Reply to this post with your forgotten piece!
While I would rewrite parts of this in light of critical developments over the last 10 years, I still think it has something to say.

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This is what happens when you place sophisticated and complex geopolitics into the hands of a giant, screaming, man-baby.

This sounds SO GOOD.

Oh yes! I've been thinking a lot about animal traffic through St. Paul's this week actually...

That's what I thought... I'm no horse expert but I'm guessing they prefer grass and soil.

@tracelarkhall.bsky.social @callanjd.bsky.social follow up q. Presumably Morocco would have been performing in inn courtyards - does it seem unlikely that horses would have made it onto wooden stages? I've evidence of horses appearing in great halls early 16th c. but court performances are bonkers.

@tracelarkhall.bsky.social don't worry about that question... I've found Marocco