Kathryn Hurlock

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 🔗

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

I hope you enjoy it!🙃

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 :-)

Ahhhh, evidence at last!

A graphic with an orange background featuring the cover of Holy Places by Kathryn Hurlock, alongside a photo of the author herself. The text on the graphic reads, 'Hexham Book Festival. Kathryn Hurlock – Holy Places. Sunday 4th May, 12:45-1:45pm. Sponsored by Vindolanda, Charitable Trust.'

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
🎟️ tinyurl.com/mf3sfvys

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.

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 ✨

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.

'Delightful and compelling'

A brilliant review from @engelsbergideas.bsky.social for @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social's #HolyPlaces, out now.

White books shelves with a variety if history books in hardback. In the middle is a Blue cover with the main title: Holy Places.

I was out in Manchester today and spotted 'Holy Places' by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social on the shelf!

'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…

'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.

Congratulations, Kathryn! Spotted in the wild at Foyles, Waterloo today!

Yay, the first confirmation of a sighting! Thank you!

Out tomorrow! Available via your usual places online, and in good book shops #HolyPlaces #Pilgrimage

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

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.

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...

Of course! Maybe I should set myself that challenge for all books??

📚💙You can now read samples via Profile's website! profilebooks.com/work/holy-pl...

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...

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

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

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

CFP for #Demobbed - extended deadline to Nov 15th in case anyone missed it!

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