Senior lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of “Bikes & Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear” Senior lecturer in sociology at ...

The “breaking news” across much of the British Commonwealth on Saturday, July 11, was that a pair of Queen Victoria’s underpants had been sold at auction in Wiltshire for “a record price.” By ...

'The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critcal technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives - ...