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Kathryn Hurlock
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Historian of Wales, pilgrimage, medieval combat trauma.
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Pleased to announce we are celebrating a new leadership agreement for the Returning Solider Network with a 1-day symposium focusing on 'Forgotten Veterans', at Birmingham Newman University in April. Here is the CfP!
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I joined the wonderful Dr. Miranda Melcher on the @NewBooksNetwork to talk about #HolyPlaces and the impact of pilgrimage on everything from economics to politics, faith to identity #pilgrimage #pilgrims newbooksnetwork.com/holy-places
Kathryn Hurlock, "Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World" (Profile, 2025) - New Books Network
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October 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Join #HolyPlaces author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social next month at this fascinating @westminsterabbey.bsky.social talk about pilgrimage and its shaping of our world. Details below ⬇️

📍 St Margaret's Church, Westminster
📅 Weds 8th Oct
🕐 1–1:50pm
🎟️ £5, via 🔗
Lunchtime Talk: How pilgrimage changed the world | Westminster Abbey
Professor Kathryn Hurlock investigates the varied ways that pilgrimages have shaped the history of our world in this captivating talk.
www.westminster-abbey.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Calling Leeds IMC! You are warmly invited to Arc’s 10 th Anniversary Reception Tuesday 8 July 8pm Beechgrove. Celebrate 10 years of changing the academic publishing game with wine, chat and celebrations of 2 books recently hot off the press… #imc2025
July 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Done, dusted, and sent off to University of Wales Press - Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales: St Winefride's Well and Its Pilgrims will be out in Spring 2026! Hoping to have this fabulous image from the Yale Center for British Art on the cover :-)
May 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Follow the trail of pilgrimage with #HolyPlaces author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social at her Hexham Book Festival event! Discover all the details below ⬇️

📅 Sun 4th May
🕛 12:45–1:45pm
📌 Hexham Library
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April 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Check out this fascinating conversation between @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social's Guy Hayward and author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social, as Kathryn discusses her new book on pilgrimage #HolyPlaces
Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World — a conversation with author Kathryn Hurlock - British Pilgrimage Trust
Explore how pilgrimage shaped global culture in our conversation with historian Kathryn Hurlock, author of Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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'Delightful and compelling'

A brilliant review from @engelsbergideas.bsky.social for @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social's #HolyPlaces, out now.
The power of pilgrimage
A delightful, compelling history makes a case for understanding pilgrimage as an activity in which the secular and the sacred are inextricably entwined.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I was out in Manchester today and spotted 'Holy Places' by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social on the shelf!
March 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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'April is coming, that time, as Chaucer reminds us in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, many long to go on “pilgrimages”. If that’s you, here’s a book to stick in your backpack'

#HolyPlaces by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social is a @heraldscotland.bsky.social must-read.
'This story jumps off the page' - 10 great new books to read next
The best sports books are almost inevitably boxing books. Perhaps because no sport carries more inherent risk for those who take part, perhaps…
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March 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Congratulations, Kathryn! Spotted in the wild at Foyles, Waterloo today!
March 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Out tomorrow! Available via your usual places online, and in good book shops #HolyPlaces #Pilgrimage
'One simply cannot do justice to Kathryn Hurlock’s vivid and remarkably wide-ranging page-turner in such a brief review… Throughout, we are treated to the extraordinary variety in pilgrimage'

A brilliant review for #HolyPlaces by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social in the latest Country Life magazine.
March 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Intrigued by pilgrimage? Discover @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social's fascinating history of these spiritual journeys in #HolyPlaces, publishing next week.

Read a review from @thetls.bsky.social below.
A history of nineteen shrines of all faiths
In the late eleventh century, a French priest named Fulcher of Chartres arrived in Constantinople with the First Crusade. He was dazzled by the riches
www.the-tls.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I’m excited that @waterstones.bsky.social is offering 25% off my book #HolyPlaces when you pre-order between now and the end of day on Monday 24th. Use the pre-order code PREORDER25 at checkout to claim your discount. #WPreorder

www.waterstones.com/book/holy-pl...
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📚💙You can now read samples via Profile's website! profilebooks.com/work/holy-pl...
January 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Out on the 6th of March with @profilebooks.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to Michael Wood for the endorsement, and the team at Profile for the gorgeous design. If you are interested in finding out more about the history of pilgrimage, you can pre-order now profilebooks.com/work/holy-pl...
January 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Spain's famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims - The Boston Pilot

http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID=198865

(OSV News) -- The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain's famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of …#WayOfStJames #StJamesWay #Camino #BuenCamino
Spain's famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims
(OSV News) -- The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain's famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, hit a new record of almost half a million last year. Among them were 38,000 Americans
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January 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Excited that my first trade book, Holy Places, will be out with Profile in March 2025. Too early for Christmas, but you are very welcome to pre-order for some springtime reading! profilebooks.com/work/holy-pl... #pilgrimage #pilgrims #tradebook
December 17, 2024 at 1:22 PM
CFP for #Demobbed - extended deadline to Nov 15th in case anyone missed it!
November 8, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Gadzooks! What's your Puritan name? Take our quiz, post your Godly moniker in the comments and share with share with your friends!
September 21, 2023 at 8:50 AM