#1 Alice Bygrave's Pulley Cycling Skirt ------------ #2 Julia's Gill's cycling semi-skirt ------------ #3 Henrietta Muller's three piece cycling suit ------------ #4 Pease sisters' combined cycling skirt and cape -----------…
I was very pleased to be part of an all female panel of speakers at Waterstones (Gower Street, London) talking about the suffrage movement and the many inventive women who…
I was part of London Transport Museum’s Late Debate: Women of The Future, on Thursday Feb 8. I did a Pechakucha talk (20 slides, 20 seconds each) and hosted an installation in…
I have a chapter called - Socio-Technical Mobile Devices of Resistance: Victorian inventors, women cyclists and convertible cycle wear patents, in Caygill, H., Leeker, M and Schulze, T. (eds) Inventions in…
I was an invited speaker at the one-day conference Gender, Sexuality and The Sensory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. My paper was called - Sociological Sewing: Sensory Encounters with Women’s Invention…
I gave a keynote at Secret Cycling Selves: How Victorian Women Negotiated Multiple Mobile Identities Through Patented Cycle Wear, Mobilities, Literature, Culture Conference, Lancaster University, UK. This two-day conference provides a…
We are in the process of developing 9 open source downloadable PDF sewing patterns inspired by our research and patents lodged by inventive women 1895-1899. More soon!
I presented at SPIN London: the cycling festival, for London Bike Kitchen, at Old Truman Brewery, London on May 20-22. I shared the lecture with Sheila Hanlon, a cycling historian.…
At Goldsmiths, we practise Sociology with a variety of things, from buildings to music and social media. But how do we do this? Rebecca Coleman and Noortje Marres organised an…
Finally, this article is out and it is available open access. Jungnickel, K. “One needs to be very brave to stand all that”: Cycling, rational dress and the struggle for citizenship…
I had a great night at the 'Wearable Technologies' late at the Science Museum. Substantial audiences turned out - twice - to see the talk and try on the clothes. Many…
Alice Louisa Bygrave's patent illustrations for her convertible cycling skirt: This is our version inspired by her design:
I was invited to be in a podcast with Olympian Victoria Pendleton, presenter and author Jools Walker and curator Polly Russell (as well as @velociposse and many other fascinating cycling people…
The Global Cycling Network is a cycling-related YouTube channel that has been around since 2013. It showcases cycling in long-form films, documentaries and On-Demand Racing. It is developing a new series…
Bikes & Bloomers was launched in paperback in April 2020. It is still a very satisfying brick of a book.
The project has received widespread national and regional media (tv, newspapers, magazine and radio coverage). The Telegraph (16/04/18) and The Times (16/04/18) ran major print and online pieces and The Sun (16/04/2018) included…
Many thanks to WECS - The West of England Costume Society - (and especially Jean Scott, WECS programme secretary) for inviting me to speak at their annual Janet Arnold study…
The Bikes & Bloomers short video made by Ashley Simpson from Goldsmiths has made the AHRC Research in Film Awards (RIFA) Shortlist - which is pretty exciting. Awards night is in…
I was invited by Professor Ramia Mazé to visit Aalto University in Helsinki to give a keynote as part of the welcome to new MA Design students and to meet with researchers.…
On 6th June I was invited to participate in a workshop called The Unfinished in Architecture, Design and Planning, run by Kim Kullman from the Open Space Research Centre at the Open University. This is…
I was invited to the 2019 York Festival of Ideas, which is the largest free festival in the UK with a huge range of events taking place across the city…
A few weeks ago I was invited by BBC1 Countryfile to Blists Hill Victorian Town, a period village in Telford, near Birmingham. I was interviewed talking about, cycling in and…