In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors

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Absolutely. These days, I don’t run fast enough to get that massive endorphin burst that you get from fast running on flat ground. Instead, I get a different kind of joy, which is sensory. At the moment, it’s spring in Yorkshire and it smells amazing. And the light is changing, and it’s beautiful, and there’s this contrast between sometimes vast and expansive views and sometimes just little glimpses of a patch of snowdrops.

I think that, in public messaging around this area, there is a bit too much emphasis on keeping women ‘safe’ and not enough on the main goal which is protecting women’s freedom. The idea of keeping women safe can sometimes treat men’s violence as an inevitable fact of life and puts the onus on women to restrict their activity accordingly. Alex Telfer/Eyevine Rachel Hewitt in the North York MoorsAnother non-fiction book in the format of "author researches a subject, and interweaves their findings with a first-person narrative about their life during the process of researching". This format seems to be very popular at the moment, at least by the publishing industry.

As a result, she went in search of the foremothers who blazed a trail at the dawn of outdoor sports in the 19th century. During her research, she discovered that all too often women had been pushed to the periphery of outdoor sports and activities. But it was the people who had the most profound impact on us. One of the effects of trauma has been that I’ve become immensely sensitive to noise and Lao culture places a high value on calm, quiet and politeness so in sensory terms, it was a very restful place to be. Map of a Nationwon the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Galaxy Non-Fiction Awards, the Scottish Book Awards, the Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize and BBC History Magazine's Book Prize. I’m not here to entertain you,” I say. “Do you have any idea what it’s like to not be able to run down the street in peace?” I wanted to believe there could be a schedule for mourning and that I would have run my way out of it by now Queen Mary has double success in BBC academic talent contest". Queen Mary University of London. 28 June 2011.

But women’s freedom – the freedom to be strong, active and comfortable in our own bodies and to move around the world with curiosity and joy – is incredibly important, and it’s so important to me these days that I try to prioritise it above niggling worries about whether it’s safe for me to go running on a deserted moor.