Notes
An enormous amount of often hidden help and unacknowledged effort went into a successful Grand Tour. Tutors, servants, doctors, guides, coachmen, postillions, sailors, porters, custom officials, washerwomen, cooks and countless others – no Grand Tour was possible without them, and yet they so rarely feature in the Tour’s surviving records. A book is not unlike a Grand Tour. It is carried and made possible by numerous individuals who do not often feature in the body of the text. This book is no exception, and I have many, many people to thank.
First and foremost, thanks must go to my three truly excellent ‘tutors’ who have bear-led me with such wisdom from the earliest stages of my academic career to the present. Ross Balzaretti introduced me to the delights of travel history during his third year special subject at the University of Nottingham, encouraged me in my early thoughts on danger and travel, and quite correctly told me that my initial ideas for my undergraduate and MA dissertations were more suited to a book-length study. I have been endlessly fortunate to have Catriona Kennedy as my PhD supervisor at the University of York. Between pulling me back from archival rabbit holes and opening my eyes to new approaches via the history of masculinity, her expertise and critical thinking has been a deeply formative, enduring influence on my academic development. Last but not least, Roey Sweet has been a nonpareil of mentors during my time at the University of Leicester, guiding me through the process of turning a thesis into a monograph and cheering me over the finishing line. Thank you each for your outstanding support, patient guidance and for encouraging me to work to the best of my capacity.
I am extremely grateful to the many other academics who have so generously offered their time, expertise, advice and support. Your thoughtful questions and astute observations have shaped my thinking and writing on multiple occasions, and I am privileged to be part of so many supportive academic communities. Before I started my PhD, I was warned that they would be very lonely years. To my great delight, I found the precise opposite and a community of colleagues, friends and fellow thinkers at the University of York’s history department and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. My particular thanks to Amy Milka, Claire Canavan, Emilie Murphy, Frankie Maguire, Harriet Guest, Kristin Bourassa, Mark Jenner, Natasha Glaisyer and Robin Macdonald.
I have continued to benefit from the joys of academic fellowship after my PhD, and so say a heartfelt thank you to my colleagues at the University of Leicester’s history department and Centre for Urban History for their fellowship, encouragement and perspective during the last four years. With special thanks to Andy Hopper, Angela Muir, Alistair Kefford, George Lewis, Jamie Johnson, Jan Vandeburie, Prashant Kidambi, Roey Sweet, Richard Ansell, Richard Butler, Sally Horrucks, Simon Gunn, Sophie Cooper, Svenja Bethke, Toby Lincoln and Zoe Groves.
Academia is fortunate in that our communities go beyond institutions and beyond borders. The book has benefited so much from discussions with, and insights from, a disparate, transnational set of scholars working on early modern and eighteenth-century travel and masculinity. I am particularly grateful to Gabor Gelleri, Gerrit Verhoeven, Elodie Duchè, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Karen Harvey, John Brewer, John Gallagher, Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui, Mark Williams, Marianna D’Ezio, Matthew McCormack, Michèle Cohen, Simon Bainbridge and Valèrie Capdeville.
This book has been completed with the help and support of many institutions. I would like to thank the archives and libraries that allowed me to consult their manuscripts, and to acknowledge the very generous assistance and expertise provided by their staff. Material pertaining to the Dartmouth family is used by permission of The Dartmouth Heirloom Trust and Staffordshire Record Office. At the various stages of researching, writing and finalizing this book, I have been fortunate enough to receive financial support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Doctoral Scholarship and the Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Research Fellowship. The rights to the wonderful images that enhance my arguments have been purchased with the help of publication grants from the Institute of Historical Research’s Scouloudi Historical Award and the Marc Fitch Fund. My sincere thanks to each of these organizations for their generosity.
The teams behind the Royal Historical Society and Institute of Historical Research’s ‘New Historical Perspective’ series have proved to be marvellously supportive in ensuring this book reached its full potential and in guiding me through my first experience of publishing a monograph. Thank you to my anonymous reviewers, my workshop contributors, Mark Rothery and Nicola Phillips, the editors, particularly Penny Summerfield, who chaired my workshop, and especially my editorial contact, Philip Carter, for the care and attention with which he has read and commented on my work. Thank you to Emily Morrell, Kerry Whitston and the publishing team for their hard work, and to Hannah DeGroff for such a detailed index.
Finally, I owe an invaluable debt to the incredible love, encouragement and fellowship of my friends and family. Yes, this is the very same book that has been ‘nearly there’ all these years and yes, it is the one that has dogs in it and yes, I truly could not have done it without you. Above all, thank you always to my parents, Mike and Maureen Goldsmith, and my sister, Rachel: your support, humour and love has at various times accompanied, encouraged, carried and (occasionally) dragged me through this process – cheers.