Rethinking bicycle histories: Rethinking cycling histories Item Type Presentation Authors Cox, Peter Citation Conference paper prepared for 40th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC in Manchester, 22-28 July 2013 Download date 25/09/2021 14:43:44 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10034/554154 This work has been submitted to ChesterRep – the University of Chester’s online research repository http://chesterrep.openrepository.com Author(s): Peter Cox Title: Rethinking bicycle histories: Rethinking cycling histories Date: 25 July 2013 Originally given at: 40th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology Example citation: Cox, P. (2015, July 10). Rethinking bicycle histories: Rethinking cycling histories. Conference paper prepared for 40th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC in Manchester, 22- 28 July 2013. Version of item: Given at conference Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/554154 For discussion only. Please do not cite or circulate without express permission of author
[email protected] Peter Cox Rethinking Bicycle Histories: Rethinking Cycling Histories Paper prepared for 40th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC (Manchester July 22-28 2013) Draft copy for discussion only please do not cite without permission of the author Peter Cox Faculty of Social Science University of Chester, UK
[email protected] Introduction Bicycle history and historiography is currently undergoing significant reassessment. Historical studies on bicycles and bicycle mobility have been dominated by the legacy of chronologically organised accounts of the bicycle as artefact. While valuable, this approach has had a tendency to elide significant differences between specific histories of the place of the bicycle as a component of broader mobility systems in varying geographical locations.