Historian of modern British history focusing on gender and equestrian sports in Britain and the Empire
Joined August 2015
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14 Jul 2021
➡️🐴➡️ 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
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22 Aug 2025
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.
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22 Aug 2025
Sofie Remijsen opens the second day of the BSSH conference with the Derek Birley Memorial Lecture on Mediterranean sports...
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12 Aug 2025
The shortlist for this years Lord Aberdare Prize has just been announced and features authors such as Conor Murray, Matt McDowell, Conor Heffernan, as well as Matthew Llewellyn & Toby Rider, best of luck guys...
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17 Jun 2025
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
22 May 2025
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)
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21 Jan 2025
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
23 Aug 2024
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
27 Apr 2024
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
8 Apr 2024
📢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?
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14 Mar 2024
Wish I could! @ehlyons is awesome - do go if you have a chance!
13 Mar 2024
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
23 Feb 2024
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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24 Dec 2023
Blessed Memory: Fine new statue of Her Majesty outside the Adjutant’s house at Sandhurst where she frequently reviewed the Sovereign’s Parade.
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12 Dec 2023
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:
bit.ly/3Tneblc
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15 Nov 2023
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
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28 Sep 2023
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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15 Sep 2023
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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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
14 Sep 2023
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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14 Sep 2023
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
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Dr. Erica Munkwitz retweeted
6 Sep 2023
|21 OCTOBER 2023 - 25 FEBRUARY 2024| Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) is one of Britain’s best-known equine female artists. See the first major retrospective exhibition of works since the artist’s death, at NHRM from 21 October. *Included with General Admission*
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31 Aug 2023
If you’re at @Burghley_HT stop by @TheFieldmag stand and get a copy of the latest issue, with article by @MCableAlexander on “The Women Who Paved The Way”- those fearless Dianas of the field- she references my work and book, Women, Horse Sports, and Liberation. Thank you!!! 🐎
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