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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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Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture 2018, “Pedalling Days”
The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture 2018 took place at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield before a packed audience. The topic was “Pedalling Days: Sylvia Pankhurst and Political Cycling Traditions from Clarionettes to Suffragettes.” Previous speakers have included Dr Helen Pankhurst and Dr … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, christabel pankhurst, clarion, cycling, lecture, statue, suffrage, sylvia pankhurst, WSPU
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Alice Hawkins: Leicester’s Working Class Suffragette Cyclist
Image: Leicester Mercury, 2017 The story of women’s suffrage is often presented as set in London and exclusively driven by middle and upper class women. Activists like Alice Hawkins, founder of the Leicester Women’s Suffrage and Political Union, however, were … Continue reading
Tagged alice hawkins, bicycle, leicester, suffrage
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Read More Bicycle History on The Cycling UK Website
Are you interested in reading more about cycling history? Visit the history section of the Cycling UK website! As Cycling UK’s historian, I have been researching the history of this influential organisation from it’s foundation as the Bicycle Touring Club … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, ctc, ctc gazette, cycling uk, drais, draisienne, history, karl von drais, lady harberton, welford
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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
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’ 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
A Christmas Cycling Wish, c. 1898
Happy holidays to all of you out there on two wheels! A Christmas Wish May you steer a steady course and everything go well, No obstacles your pathway cross, when you ring the belle! Image source: Christmas Card, c. 1898 … Continue reading
Over the Alps on a Bicycle by Elizabeth Robins Pennell Available for Kindle
Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s 1898 book Over the Alps on a Bicycle, illustrated by her husband Joseph Pennell, is now available on Kindle. This edition was “re-mastered” so to speak as an e-book by Cathy Ryan for Eltanin Publishing from the original … Continue reading
“Woman power” bicycle kanga from The British Museum
Powerful women on bicycles are everywhere these days–even in the stairwells of The British Museum! The “Woman power” bicycle kanga shown above hangs in The British Museum’s North Stairs near the Africa galleries. It was printed for the Kali Mata … Continue reading
