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…
The last few weeks I have been working as a research assistant focusing on patents specifically – literature on patents, patent studies, the history of patenting. Most of my time…
The documentation we have for the patents filed by Alice Bygrave for her convertible skirt and her father Charles William Rudolph Duerre (for improvements in bicycle saddle suspension) all show…
We are fortunate to have recent communications with distant relatives of one of the patentees we're researching, and they were kind enough to share this photo of a watchmaker's shop: Not…
Yesterday Kat took me to Manchester Costume Museum - on bikes, of course - to revisit some of the missing archival materials which have since proven very useful. This gave…
The last few weeks have involved contacting a whole range of costume, sporting and women's archives to ensure we aren't making something that already exists, or that if we are,…
This afternoon I visited Dashing Tweeds new shop on 26 Sackville Street, W1 (round the corner from Saville Row), where I received a warm welcome on a wet wintery afternoon.…
I'm an ethnographer. I'm used to talking with people, interviewing them, hanging out, doing participant observation of contemporary society. I'm less used to talking with and to things. I'm written…
I've just been rereading The Diary of Emily Sophia Coddington - a fascinating original cycling document from 1893-1996. First hand accounts like this are rare and special. (Often we have to make…
This piece of footage is fascinating on many levels. I have just completed a 16mm Bolex filmmaking course at No.W.Here so I look at materials like this with a fresh…