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Bear journeys in early modern England

Bear journeys in early modern England
Bear journeys in early modern England
This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources and our interdisciplinary methodologies (uniting archival research and cultural history with spatial humanities, GIS mapping, and zooarchaeology) illuminate what it meant more broadly to travel on foot in early modern England.
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Davies, Callan, Bloxam, Anna, O'Regan, Hannah, Charlton, Sophie, Lewis, Liam and Wright, Elizabeth (2025) Bear journeys in early modern England. The Seventeenth Century, 40 (2). (doi:10.1080/0268117X.2025.2461368).

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This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record. We plot roadways taken and the lengths and times via GIS mapping, offering a fresh spatial humanities methodology to explore commercial life on the road and its consequences. Together, these sources and our interdisciplinary methodologies (uniting archival research and cultural history with spatial humanities, GIS mapping, and zooarchaeology) illuminate what it meant more broadly to travel on foot in early modern England.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 January 2025
Published date: 17 March 2025

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Local EPrints ID: 498267
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/498267
ISSN: 0268-117X
PURE UUID: 36568beb-a659-4024-ada7-5d79a6d61105
ORCID for Callan Davies: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-0660

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2025 17:38
Last modified: 29 Mar 2025 03:29

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Author: Callan Davies ORCID iD
Author: Anna Bloxam
Author: Hannah O'Regan
Author: Sophie Charlton
Author: Liam Lewis
Author: Elizabeth Wright

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