Susanna Forrest

Sep 18, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Susanna Forrest

Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History University of California, pp.360, 25 The German cultural scientist Ulrich Raulff has written that horses have as many meanings as bones. In the archaeologist William Taylor’s new history of horses and humans, we meet all those bones.

Sep 17, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Susanna Forrest

The German cultural scientist Ulrich Raulff has written that horses have as many meanings as bones. In the archaeologist William Taylor’s new history of horses and humans, we meet all those bones. Found in thawing permafrost, in caves, and buried ceremonially in graves in Siberia and Chile, the bones are cracked open by Taylor to show how the horse evolved in the Americas before its early encounters with human hunters.

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Susanna Forrest |Ash Ranpura

Jul is coming to southern Sweden. No, the pine fronds aren’t yet framing the shop windows, and yes, everyone keeps fairylights on their balconies all year round in gloomy Skåne anyway. And no, the eerie parade of white-frocked Lucias with their candle crowns has not yet been spotted on the cobbled streets of Lund, nor are the plain electric candelabras glowing austerely from windows.

Sep 20, 2023 | susannaforrest.substack.com | Susanna Forrest

Amazons of Paris is a newsletter researched and written by me, Susanna Forrest, as I work on a book of the same name. The Amazons were circus equestriennes of nineteenth-century Europe, from the famous to the forgotten. You can get a sense of their lives and world from my introductory post, which you also receive if you subscribe. We’re here to puzzle out lost women of the past, and how we get closer to understanding their lives.

Jun 7, 2023 | spectator.com.au | Susanna Forrest

Horses have schlepped, hauled and galloped grooves into Britain, providing the muscle for transport, industry, agriculture and leisure and the inspiration for myth, art and literature. In The Bridleway, the environmentalist Tiffany Francis-Baker maps this busy-storied topography from the Uffington White Horse to ancient roads, canals, coaching inns, race courses, conservation projects and public art. She crosses the country to speak to horse-people and explores old bridleways.