Historian of modern British history focusing on gender and equestrian sports in Britain and the Empire
Washington, DC
Joined August 2015
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➡️🐴➡️ IT'S BOOK RELEASE DAY! ⬅️🐴⬅️
Women, Horse Sports and Liberation is now available for purchase - it's currently 20% off @tandfsport @routledgebooks so click here: bit.ly/3r8EefC
Please join us for a one-day all-star event at @TuxfordHorse - I'll be speaking on the history of sidesaddle, and Alison Moller & @Horsesinhistory will also be speaking. Tickets: bit.ly/4hSvNS1 - all proceeds go to preserving this wunderkammer of a museum @equinehistory
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We’re underway for day 2 of the @BritSportHisSoc conference at @UlsterUniSport with Sofie Remijsen of the University of Amsterdam discussing the decline of sport in the Ancient world and in particular, perspectives from the ancient Mediterranean.
Really delighted to be here in Oslo @CRiC_SCR to present on equestrian coaching and the historical development of riding instruction at #cric2025 #takingthereins
🤛 With our fabulous #CRiC2025 #BeyondBoundaries conference fast approaching, the team at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences have been hard at it, carefully crafting the conference programme! What a beauty!
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From one of his frequent expeditions to North Africa ~ the versatile Irish artist John Lavery’s ‘In Morocco’ (1913), with his daughter Alice astride elderly white battle-steed Lily-Beau, accompanied by his wife Hazel (National Gallery of Victoria)
Friends, I will be in Dublin 🇮🇪 next week and am looking for horse-related 🐎 or non-horse-related things to do when I am not at @NLIreland - any suggestions?!
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Congratulations to @mateobrown for his book Sport in South America: A History on winning the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2024, awarded by the British Society of Sport History @BritSportHisSoc @SouvikNaha @EricaMunkwitz @YaleBooks @BristolUni sportinhistory.org/
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An unidentified European (English ?) Army General with his Indian Begum both riding horses. Work with @ngma_delhi #Art #History #WhiteMughals #Horses @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @PunjabiRooh @ssharadmohhan @Peachtreespeaks @swativashishtha @JAJafri @kamlesm @theheritagelab
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📢New article📢 @EricaMunkwitz chronicles the ways in which women were enmeshed in professional #equestrian activities during the long nineteenth century. What factors led women to serve as coaches and riding instructors?
Wish I could! @ehlyons is awesome - do go if you have a chance!
Ever wanted to know a little more about the histoyr of the horse in society? If so, come hear me speak about the horse in Co. Wicklow next Tuesday, 19 March, when I'll be speaking on the topic to @RoundwoodHistor
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This weekend is your last chance to come and see our Lucy Kemp-Welch Exhibition, In her own voice: The art of Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958).
Please be aware that starting from today, there will be disruptions in Palace House over the forthcoming week due to installations.
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Blessed Memory: Fine new statue of Her Majesty outside the Adjutant’s house at Sandhurst where she frequently reviewed the Sovereign’s Parade.
Look at this beautiful Alfred de Dreux painting (Lady Alice and Lady Blanche Egerton with three dogs)! Three pommel sidesaddles .... #sidesaddle #horsehistory #inlove
A member of the famous luxury goods family, Hubert Guerrand-Hermès spent his entire life amassing a unique collection, all housed in the Hôtel de Lannion in Paris.
Discover the evening auction catalogue ahead of the sale at #SothebysParis on 13 December:
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Tune in tomorrow (Nov 16) at 9am ET for the @RountreeTryon @BSATrust Online Sporting Art Talk on "The History of Women and Horse Sports" - I'll chat about sidesaddle riding & women's equestrian work in WW1, highlighting the work of Lucy Kemp-Welch. Link: rb.gy/txxszl
Such a privilege to do this @odnb entry (which incl crazy microfilm digging, scrolling, screeching!) at @britishlibrary to find Nannie's exact quote on being unable to ride again. She will feature in my upcoming article on female equestrians as sport coaches for @SprtinHistory
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With Alice and Nannie (below)! Anyone with sport/equestrian/gender interests should check out this super group of @odnb entries. Really proud to contribute here, with some of the most demanding and rewarding research of my career @Equine_History @hoofhistory @NHRMuseum @NSLM1954
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My entry in @odnb on the life of Dorothy Brooke, founder of @TheBrooke & lifelong advocate for the care & protection of horses, is published online today
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Here it is! @odnb release of 18 entries on modern equestrians, including my entries on Alice & MH Hayes, Nannie O’Donoghue, and Eva Christy. So pleased to be a part of this exciting research. Read more: oxforddnb.com/newsitem/771/w… @mikehuggins22 @DrKateDashper @gahorrell @DrZoeJaques