Rachel Hewitt

Articles & Media

My most recent articles can be found on my best-selling Substack newsletter, Small Revolutions, Every Day

twice-weekly posts

The Spine Race rule change sets a dangerous precedent for women

The Great Outdoors

Banning Women

Subject to Power podcast

#133: Men are Bullshit

Running is BS podcast

Malton author Rachel Hewitt on her memoir In Her Nature and how running helps with grief

Yorkshire Post

24 May 2023

How women were excluded from sport - and fought back

HistoryExtra Podcast

'Running is fundamentally important to me, physically and emotionally'

Guardian

2 April 2023

Forty miles on the moors: how running helped me navigate the strange terrain of grief

Guardian

2 April 2023

Rachel helped to develop and research, and she participated in, the BBC Radio 4 Programme, The Long View Against Women in Public

AHRC Hidden Histories podcast with Helen Carr, on The History of Women, the Outdoors, and the Safety of the Streets

Developed, researched, wrote and presented BBC Radio 3 programme, Repeating Patterns in the History of Street Harassment

‘For women to feel safe in public spaces, men’s behaviour has to change’

Guardian

11 March 2021

Review: Greta Thunberg, No One is Too Small to Make a Difference

Guardian

29 May 2019

‘Landscape Now: Conversation Piece: Response’

British Art Studies

May 2019, 4000 words

For women, running is still an act of defiance’

1843: The Economist’s magazine

29 April 2019

‘The New Age of Sentimentality’: panel discussion, broadcast on BBC Radio 3

‘I decided to start walking down the street like a man. Spoiler: it didn’t go well’

New Statesman

19 November 2018

BBC Radio 4 Start The Week, ‘In Praise of Passion’ (discussing A Revolution of Feeling)

Sex Dolls Won’t Stop Rape and Assault: That’s Not How Sex and Abuse Works

The Pool

Februrary 2018

‘Do “Animal Fluids Move by Hydraulick Laws”? The Politics of the Hydraulic Theory of Emotion’

Lancet Psychiatry

25 (1), January 2018, 25-26, 2000 words

Rachel discusses A Revolution of Feeling and the history of emotion on the BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed

18 January 2018

Review: Fiona Sampson, In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl who Wrote Frankenstein

Guardian

January 2018

From the Vapours to Sad Face: a History of Emotion

Guardian

October 2017

‘From May’s Tears to Angry Trump: Is Modern Politics too Emotional?’

New Statesman

October 2017

Panel discussion on ‘uncertainty’ for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking (with Salman Rushdie)

10 October 2017

‘Sympathy’

Granta

7 September 2017

BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra: ‘mood and emotion

Review: Maria Alyokhina’s Riot Days

Guardian

August 2017

Contact Rachel

You can contact Rachel about any of her books through her agent, Tracy Bohan, at the Wylie Agency, 17 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA.

Rachel’s publicist for In Her Nature is Anna Redman Aylward at Chatto & Windus.

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