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THE ATALANTA BICYCLING CLUB
KINGDOMS OF THE BLIND
Professor of Travel and Tourism History and Behaviour, University of Limerick
Huddersfield University (Ist Marketing Degrees); Northumbria University (1st. Tourism Degree 1985);
Open University (Popular Culture and Mass Communication);
University of Luton/Bedford, International Tourism Research Institute + Emeritus 2009
CHARLES COLLIER
PART 1: THE ATALANTA BICYCLE CLUB RECORDS 1879
• Membership (names and numbers); • Fees (receipts); • Meetings (dates, venues) • Attendance • Itineraries (roads, stops, hospitality and
entertainment (with other other clubs) • Distances and times• Bicycle ownership by type • Author’s cycling purchases (bikes, accessories)
PART II: BICYCLE PRESS BOOK
• 1879 News Cuttings from national and regional press
• Inserted programmes, ephemera… The first “how to ride a bike” book 1870s!• World six day• Accidents/Insurance
AS SOCIO-HISTORICAL DATA
• Dates: 1879 but also 1874, 1881. The UR decade of cycling• Membership and number of cycling clubs• Group participation by class, occupation• Road and travel conditions • The cycling geography of Greater London
POSSIBILITIES
• Individual and social cycling profiling, and prosoprography (when did the toffs decline as %).• Social Geography of Cycling: itineraries then and
now (Loss of habitat? Laslett’s “World we have lost!”) • Comparison with Howards “Roads Books” and
(1882-1889) and later CC Roadbooks . • Cycling Club associations and contacts of named
clubs recorded.• Cycling and the Victorian Press 1870-1919 • The invention of “Trauma” and “safe spaces”
QUARTERLY FEES
MEMO’S 1879
• “Wrote about new machine to Coventry C0, March 1 1879 • Ordered 50 inch Club Machine March 7• Fetched my new 50 inch machine April 16 1879• New Valise April 29th
• New Rubber for Spring May 19, June 14, July 19, 23 (red)) August 13, No 3 thick used 31/8/79 (Break blocks?)
• Had Bicycle Stand Oct 29th
• GM Cycling call papers to be pd for by club for future• Distance ridden on 48 in machine from June 4 , 1877 to April 1880
4266 miles: 1877 1404; 1878 2196; 1879 666
PERSONAL CYCLING DIARY
PERSONAL MEMO 1880(THE CYCLIST CAREER)
• Had new uniform March 20• Had match box pedals • Elected member BTC Feb 28• Resigned from Atalanta• Resignation accepted• Elected member of Civil Service C. C.• New Rubber for spring (break blocks?)• Adv 48 inch April 1880• Sold ditto• Gave up taking “Bicycling Times”• Began taking “Cyclist”• New Bicycling Gloves• New Bell Challis
MEMO’S 1880 (CONT)
• New Rubber for spring (break blocks?)• Adv 48 inch April 1880• Sold ditto• Gave up taking “Bicycling Times”• Began taking “Cyclist”• New Bicycling Gloves• New Bell Challis