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This page follows historian Dr. Sheila Hanlon's past and recent research projects. Her interests include Victorian and Edwardian cycling history and the WWI and WWII Women's Land Army, both in Canada and Britain.
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Author Archives: Sheila Hanlon
Bicycle Fashion Files Part Two: Tricycles and Highwheelers, 1870-1880s
The Question of Women’s Dress During the Heyday of Tricycles and Highwheelers, 1870-1880s The second instalment of the Bicycle Fashion Files examines cycling dress in the age of the tricycle and highwheeler, 1870s-80s. While only a few women took to … Continue reading
Bicycle Fashion Files Part One: Early Inventions 1790-1860s
Adapting Women’s Dress to Early Cycling Technology, 1790-1860s Fashion is one of the most popular topics in women’s cycling history. The Bicycle Fashion Files look at women’s cycling fashion across three eras, Early Inventions 1790-1860s, Highwheeling and Tricycling 1870-1880s, and The Cycling Craze … Continue reading
Bicycle Face: A guide to Victorian cycling diseases
“Don’t cultivate a bicycle face.” — Don’ts for women on bicycles, New York World, 1895 Medical professionals kept a watchful eye on cycling when it rose in prominence as a fashionable form of leisure for men and women in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bicycle face, body, cycling, cyclomania, disease, victorian, women
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The Bicycle: Freedom Machine on The Forum, BBC World Service
From Monday 12 October, you’ll be able to hear me and three other cycling experts discuss the importance of the bicycle in an episode of The Forum on BBC World Service. Bridget Kendall leads the discussion with social enterprise entrepreneur … Continue reading
Ladies Cycling Clubs: The Politics of Victorian Women’s Bicycling Associations
The wheelmen’s club, outfitted in dapper uniforms and racing en masse down a country road, is one of the enduring images of late Victorian masculine associational culture. Cycling clubs may have started out as male reserves, especially during the highwheeler … Continue reading
The Lady Ariel Side-Saddle Ordinary, 1874
The Lady Ariel Side-Saddle Ordinary of 1874, shown above, is one of the most eccentric and innovative designs in the history of the bicycle as a gendered object. The Ordinary, commonly known as the highwheeler or penny farthing, was … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, highwheeler, history, lady ariel, ordinary, penny farthing, starley, tricycle, women
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Cycling to Suffrage, Manchester
Cycling to Suffrage Manchester Cycling to Suffrage has gone on the road to Manchester. Working in association with Team Glow, the Cycling to Suffrage: The Bicycle and Women’s Rights, 1890-1914 exhibit opens at the People’s History Museum, Manchester March … Continue reading
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Tagged #iwd2015, cycling, cycling to suffrage, international women's day, manchester
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Hack Attack
I’ve been hit. As you may note from my header, my site has been fallen prey to a rather unwelcome visitor. Repair work is underway, and I hope to be rid of that stowaway soon. Until then, please continue to … Continue reading
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The Battersea Park Cyclists’ Row
The bicycle literally and figuratively transported women beyond the bounds of the home and into public space in late-Victorian London. Not surprisingly, this incursion into open areas, such as city streets and country lanes, caused mild moral panic among a … Continue reading
Ladies’ Cycle Races at The Royal Aquarium: A Late Victorian Sporting Spectacle
S.Begg, Lisette takes the lead at The Royal Aquarium, 1896 On November 18th, 1895 novice racer Monica Harwood, a young woman from Buckinghamshire who had only learned to bicycle six months earlier, took her place on the track at The … Continue reading
