Neil Carter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1 Cycling and the rise of respectable recreation 2 Cycling as Victorian spectacle 3 Cycling, Englishness and the politics of the road 4 Cycling and the people5 The birth of British massed-start racing 6 Women, modernity and cycling 7 Cycling in the age of motoring 8 Cycling, politics and environmentalism9 Cycling in post-industrial Britain 10 Elite cycling and British society Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

As a clear and detailed guide, it is an invaluable corrective to a multiplicity of lazy assumptions and popular myths often recirculated in generalist accounts ... This is a work I will return to frequently.

Neil Carter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1 Cycling and the rise of respectable recreation 2 Cycling as Victorian spectacle 3 Cycling, Englishness and the politics of the road 4 Cycling and the people5 The birth of British massed-start racing 6 Women, modernity and cycling 7 Cycling in the age of motoring 8 Cycling, politics and environmentalism9 Cycling in post-industrial Britain 10 Elite cycling and British society Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

As a clear and detailed guide, it is an invaluable corrective to a multiplicity of lazy assumptions and popular myths often recirculated in generalist accounts ... This is a work I will return to frequently.

Neil Carter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1 Cycling and the rise of respectable recreation 2 Cycling as Victorian spectacle 3 Cycling, Englishness and the politics of the road 4 Cycling and the people5 The birth of British massed-start racing 6 Women, modernity and cycling 7 Cycling in the age of motoring 8 Cycling, politics and environmentalism9 Cycling in post-industrial Britain 10 Elite cycling and British society Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

As a clear and detailed guide, it is an invaluable corrective to a multiplicity of lazy assumptions and popular myths often recirculated in generalist accounts ... This is a work I will return to frequently.