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 foc...
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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 ...
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Colin G. Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in the Environment Centre and the Centre for Mobilities Studies (Ce Mo Re), Lanca...