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Cities, spaces and movement: everyday experiences of urban travel in England c. 1840–1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

COLIN G. POOLEY
COLIN G. POOLEY*
Affiliation:
Lancaster Environment Centre and Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
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Abstract

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 article 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.

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Urban History , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 91 - 109
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