Walking the Old Way between chalk and sea with Gail Simmons

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We are delighted to have author Gail Simmons join us in July, to talk about walking through history, landscape and solitariness. Gail’s “Between the Chalk and the Sea” as been receiving rave reviews since its publication Ian February this year (Headline 2023).

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Gail Simmons

GAIL SIMMONS is a ‘walking writer’ and the author of The Country of Larks, which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020. She has an MA in Medieval History and a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches at Bath Spa University on t...

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Andrew Stuck

Founder Online Jury 2022 Online Jury 2023

Andrew is the founder of the Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and to make and showcase walking pieces and performances. Andrew also is a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Talking Wa...

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Walking the Old Way between chalk and sea with Gail Simmons

2023-07-18 18:00

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Described as England’s Camino, the Old Way is a long-distance footpath that carves through one of the nation’s most iconic landscapes – one that links prehistoric earthworks, abandoned monasteries, Saxon churches, ruined castles and historic seaports. Over four seasons, travel writer Gail Simmons walks the Old Way to rediscover what a long journey on foot offers us today.

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