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Gareth Roddy

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Historian of modern Britain & Ireland, landscape, regional/national identities, borders, heritage, travel literature.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/10/2025
Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians
Cover of new Royal Historical Society monograph published on 30 October 2025: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy
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Rebecca Wright @rebwright.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So great to teach #envhist at Kielder today with grod.bsky.social matthewjkelly.bsky.social Freezing temperatures didn’t dampen spirits, and a friendly robin even joined our tour.
Photo of students looking out over Kielder reservoir.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
More **NEW** and **FREE** writing from our 'All Our Footsteps' project on Rights of Way... This time Gareth Roddy of Northumbria University writes about what the many pasts of Hadrian's Wall tell us about landscape and the experience of space. Take a look! 👇 www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/s...
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Seeing like a quarryman: an unfamiliar ‘archive of the feet’ along Hadrian’s Wall — In All O...
Last year I walked along the middle section of Hadrian’s Wall Path, a National Trail that opened in 2003 and follows the line of the Roman Wall for 84 miles coast to coast, between Wallsend in the...
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