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Introducing sheilahanlon.com
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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- Cycling to Suffrage
- Graduate Dissertations
- Talks & Publications
- Wheelwomen
- Alice Hawkins: Leicester’s Working Class Suffragette Cyclist
- Flora Drummond: The Suffragette General
- Madame Sarah Grand: New Woman A-Wheel
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett: The Suffragist Cyclist
- Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels
- The Countess of Warwick: A Society Cyclist
- The Pankhursts: Clarionettes and Suffragettes
Tag Archives: women
Women’s Cycling Resource List for Londoners
Interested in learning to ride or getting involved with a local cycling group? Check out the Women’s Cycling Resource List that accompanied the “Cycling to Suffrage” exhibit at The Women’s Library. Women’s Cycling Resource List, 2012 Follow the links in … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, cycling, cycling to suffrage, london, resource list, women, women's cycling club
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“Cycling to Suffrage” on The Bike Show, Resonance Radio
Want to know what an 1885 photo of a wax mannequin on a tricycle tells us about the dress reform movement? Or hear how the residents Malden reacted to the sight of a lady cyclist’s bloomers in 1890? Tune in to The … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, cycling to suffrage, history, new woman, radio, resonance, suffrage, The Bike Show, women
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Cycling to Suffrage Exhibit Opens March 21st, 2012
“Cycling to Suffrage: The Bicycle and Women’s Rights, 1890-1914″ opens at The Women’s Library 21 March 2012 Cycling has long been associated with the emancipation of women, from the fashionable lady cyclists of the 1890s to the more politically motivated … Continue reading
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Lady Cyclist Effigy at the Cambridge University Protest, 1897
In 1897, a proposal was put before Cambridge University’s Senate to grant full degrees to female graduates. Male students responded with outrage. The image above shows the scene in the market square on the day of the debate. An effigy … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Cambridge protest 1897, education, new woman, rational dress, women
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The Way to Wareham: Lady Cyclists in Punch magazine cartoons, 1890s
Lady cyclists were a favorite subject for comment in the pages of satirical publications such as Punch. Hundreds of poems, diatribes, and cartoons on the topic were published in the years during and buffering the cycling craze. The lady cyclists … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, cartoon, history, knickerbockers, lady cyclist, nosce teipsum, Punch, rational dress, satire, women
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A Postcard from New Zealand: Cycling and suffrage c. 1910
Young New Zealand Postcard, c. 1910 Continue reading
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Talks & Publications
Media Appearances and Articles “Inside the Factory: Bicycles,” BBC Two, first broadcast 16 August 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07pmyd6 “The Bicycle: Freedom Machine,” The Forum, BBC World Service, first broadcast 12 Oct 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034cf79 “Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels,” DisibilityVisability, 22 Jan … Continue reading
Graduate Dissertations
PhD Dissertation, “The Lady Cyclist: A Gender Analysis of Women’s Cycling Culture in 1890s London,” York University, 2009 “The Lady Cyclist: A Gender Analysis of Women’s Cycling Culture in 1890s London” interrogates the practice and idea of women’s cycling in … Continue reading
Tagged Agriculture, cycling, farmerette, Guelph, history, Ontario Farm Service Force, sheila hanlon, The Lady Cyclist, women, WWII, york
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