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Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries

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Authors:
  1. Colin G. Pooley

    1. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  2. Marilyn E. Pooley

    1. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  • Supplies new evidence about the mobility of non-elite men and women in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries
  • Contributes to research in social history, sociology, geography, anthropology, history, and literature
  • Includes extensive archival research of life writing

Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Value of Diary Writing

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 21-53

  4. Mobility Change over Time

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 55-80

  5. Location Matters

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 81-101

  6. Mobility, Family, and the Life Course

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 103-125

  7. Gendered Mobilities: The Female Experience

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 127-153

  8. Money Matters

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 155-174

  9. The Significance of Journey Purpose

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 175-194

  10. Immobility

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 195-214

  11. Conclusions

    • Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley
    Pages 215-225

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-239
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About this book

This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined. Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course, gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping mobilities, including immobility. It is argued that easy and frequent everyday mobilities were experienced by most of the diarists studied, that travellers could exercise their own agency to adapt easily to new forms of transport technology, but that factors such as gender, class, and location also created significant mobility inequalities.

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“Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries provides a unique and fascinating account of the diversity of everyday mobility during a time of dramatic socio-technological change. What emerges from Colin and Marilyn Pooley’s detailed empirical study of diary material is not so much how everyday life was changed noticeably by technological change but how people quickly adapted to new modes of getting around in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book will appeal equally to historians of mobility and researchers studying everyday life in the modern era.”
—Clare Holdsworth, Professor of Social Geography, Keele University, UK 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley

About the authors

Colin G. Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in the Environment Centre and the Centre for Mobilities Studies (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social geography of Britain and continental Europe since circa 1800, with recent projects focused on residential migration, travel to work, everyday mobilities and sustainable transport.  

Marilyn E. Pooley is an Historical Geographer. She was formerly a Teaching Associate in the Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK, and in retirement is researching (with Colin Pooley) everyday mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain using life writing. 


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