Hello to everyone who arrived after the New York Times piece on Sasa and Tav. I’m in the final months of writing book two, so I’m a terrible blogger just now. However, I do have a few long reads in the archives and on other sites, and you’re welcome to dip into them. I also didn’t realise until this week that Amazon has made a US Kindle version of If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession available. It has no US publisher as folk found it a bit too British, but it’s still a good 120,000 words of horse history and memories. Here’s my eclectic long reads selection:
- An interview with Julie Taylor of Epona TV about the Blue Tongue scandal, Byrialsen, the FEI and equestrian media.
- A critique of the British Museum’s Saudi-sponsored exhibit, The Horse.
- Different styles of riding – English and classical – and what they tell us about culture.
- A not-so-short history of women riding astride.
- Women, horses and World War One: remount depot heroines, part one and part two.
- Hippophagy and humans: horse meat in the Telegraph.
- The European horse meat scandal and its backstory in nineteenth-century France.
- Why girls read pony books.
- How a feminist learned to love sidesaddle.
- Mare’s milk champagne and drunken amazons.
- War horses of Somalia.
- Why a bidet is a horse.
- A man hunt on horseback in Essex.
- And finally, something completely different...