Peter Radford

is an independent scholar and a retired professor at the University of Glasgow, and at Brunel University, London. As a world-record-breaking sprinter, he competed internationally and won two bronze medals representing Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He has been working on the corporeal and sporting early modern women for many years, and enjoyed the experience of being a Folger Fellow in 2018, and again in 2021. His monograph – “They Run With Surprising Swiftness – The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain” will be published by the University of Virginia Press later this year.