TY - JOUR

T1 - Travelling through the city

T2 - using life writing to explore individual experiences of urban travel c1840-1940

AU - Pooley, Colin Gilbert

N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities on 31/05/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17450101.2017.1331019

PY - 2017/8

Y1 - 2017/8

N2 - This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840. It is argued that people easily engaged with new forms and sites of mobility, mixed transport modes and incorporated them into their everyday travel. They enjoyed the greater speeds of travel that became available and expected transport networks to work. It is argued that many of the characteristics of ‘new mobilities’ usually associated with the late twentieth century were present over a century earlier, though some more traditional forms of mobility persisted.

AB - This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840. It is argued that people easily engaged with new forms and sites of mobility, mixed transport modes and incorporated them into their everyday travel. They enjoyed the greater speeds of travel that became available and expected transport networks to work. It is argued that many of the characteristics of ‘new mobilities’ usually associated with the late twentieth century were present over a century earlier, though some more traditional forms of mobility persisted.

KW - Transport

KW - Mobilities

KW - Nineteenth Century

KW - Life writing

KW - Walking

KW - Cycling

KW - Speed

U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331019

DO - 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331019

M3 - Journal article

VL - 12

SP - 598

EP - 609

JO - Mobilities

JF - Mobilities

SN - 1745-0101

IS - 4

ER -