Dr Alun Withey

This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000 views, from over 120 countries.

If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.

Tipping is a hot issue these days.

Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new.

As a child in the early 1980s, Saturday morning television was a straight choice between two main contenders, each with its own dedicated and fiercely protective following.

Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit!

For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery.

I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations.

As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture.

As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of.