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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cities, spaces and movement
T2 - everyday experiences of urban travel in England c1840-1940
AU - Pooley, Colin Gilbert
N1 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Urban History, 44 (1), pp 91-109 2017, © 2017 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - Travelling through a city was (and remains) a routine experience for many people, but direct information on such movements is hard to uncover for the more distant past. This paper uses selected diaries to explore the ways in which urban residents interacted with and responded to the spaces through which they travelled in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century England. It is argued that while some types of travel and associated environments did generate strong responses that diarists felt worth recording, for the most part urban travel was unproblematic and unremarkable and was therefore rarely remarked upon in life writing.
AB - Travelling through a city was (and remains) a routine experience for many people, but direct information on such movements is hard to uncover for the more distant past. This paper uses selected diaries to explore the ways in which urban residents interacted with and responded to the spaces through which they travelled in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century England. It is argued that while some types of travel and associated environments did generate strong responses that diarists felt worth recording, for the most part urban travel was unproblematic and unremarkable and was therefore rarely remarked upon in life writing.
KW - Mobility
KW - Space
KW - Cities
KW - Diaries
KW - Travel
U2 - 10.1017/S0963926816000031
DO - 10.1017/S0963926816000031
M3 - Journal article
VL - 44
SP - 91
EP - 109
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
SN - 0963-9268
IS - 1
ER -