Participant Info
- First Name
- Tracey
- Last Name
- Hill
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- t.hill@bathspa.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Bath Spa University, UK
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Early modern London, theatre history, civic governance and culture in the early modern period, pageantry.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I specialise in the cultural history of early modern London with a particular focus on civic pageantry. I also run themed walking tours in the City of London, usually in partnership with the Guildhall Library. Currently editor-in-chief of Records of Early English Drama: Civic London 1558-1642.
- Recent Publications
Pageantry and Power: a cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor’s Show, 1585-1639 (Manchester University Press hbk 2010; pbk 2013)
‘ “The Grocers honour”: or, taking the City seriously in The Knight of the Burning Pestle’, Early Theatre, 20:2 (December 2017), 159-178
‘ “Ever obedient in his Studies”: Thomas Middleton and the City, c. 1621’, The London Journal, 42:2 (2017), 1-14
‘ “In fiction as in fact”: 40 years of literary studies in The London Journal’, The London Journal, 42:1 (2017), 1-12
‘Speechwriters of the Lord Mayor’s Show’, ‘ “To dazle and amaze the common Eye”: spectators of the Lord Mayor’s Show’, ‘The Elizabethan Lord Mayor’s Show’, ‘ “The Golden Fishing”: the 1616 Lord Mayor’s Show’, ‘Plague, storms and ‘the Dreadful Fire’, in The Lord Mayor’s Show: 800 Years 1215-2015 (London: Profile Books, 2015), 86-93, 96-7
Forthcoming:
‘The Merchant as Adventurer in Civic Pageantry’, in Caitlin Finlayson and Amrita Sen, eds., Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (London: Routledge, 2020)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Material Culture, Urban History
