Professor James Loxley, Professor of Early Modern Literature, delivers his inaugural lecture entitled, "Ben Jonson’s Road North"

In July 1618, the poet and playwright Ben Jonson embarked on an enterprise that had been at least a year in the planning - an epic walk all the way from London to Edinburgh.

In this lecture, Professor Loxley will look at what his companion’s account can tell us about the motivations and meanings of Jonson’s long walk to the north, and offer some reflections on what this new information on the journey can tell us about the culture and politics of the Stuart kingdoms in the decades after the union of the crowns.

Recorded on 25 February 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's Old College.