04530nam 22007575 450 991061927600332120240724100623.09783031126840303112684X10.1007/978-3-031-12684-0(MiAaPQ)EBC7119945(Au-PeEL)EBL7119945(CKB)25179516600041(OCoLC)1348491018(DE-He213)978-3-031-12684-0(EXLCZ)992517951660004120221019d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEveryday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries /by Colin G. Pooley, Marilyn E. Pooley1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (247 pages)Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture,2946-4846Print version: Pooley, Colin G. Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031126833 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The value of diary writing -- Chapter 3 Changes over time.-Chapter 4 Location matters -- Chapter 5 Constraints of the life course -- Chapter 6 Gender -- Chapter 7 Money matters -- Chapter 8 The significance of journey purpose -- Chapter 9 Immobility -- Chapter 10 Conclusions.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. Colin G. Pooley is Emeritus Professorof 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. .Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture,2946-4846Literature, Modern19th centuryLiterature, Modern20th centuryEuropean literatureCreative nonfictionGreat BritainHistoryCollective memoryNineteenth-Century LiteratureTwentieth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureNon-Fiction LiteratureHistory of Britain and IrelandMemory StudiesLiterature, ModernLiterature, ModernEuropean literature.Creative nonfiction.Great BritainHistory.Collective memory.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.European Literature.Non-Fiction Literature.History of Britain and Ireland.Memory Studies.380.5388.094109034Pooley Colin G.323271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910619276003321Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries2954912UNINA