Colin G Pooley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1070281 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Colin G Pooley |
| NOMBRES | Colin G |
| APELLIDO | Pooley |
| FIRMA | POOLEY C G |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6155-2541 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 254 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Virtual Mobility in the Mid-twentieth Century
The ability to learn about other places and cultures through a wide range of media is an important feature of the internet age, but the role of virtual mobility in the past is a largely neglected topic. In this paper I argue that mid-twentieth century pen pal correspondence provided a window on the wider world that would otherwise have been unavailable, and that virtual mobility should be seen as an integral part of the history of migration and m…
Mobility, Transport, and Communication Technologies
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforceme…
Spotlight on the traveller
All travel generates a range of feelings, responses and emotions that can be stimulated by many factors but recovering such responses to everyday travel in the past is difficult. Few conventional sources provide information on the travellers’ experiences of movement and, not surprisingly, most transport histories focus mainly on matters of infrastructure, usage, and technological change. In contrast, contemporary mobilities studies that can talk …
The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities
What Betty did
For most of the time everyday life is composed of a variety of mundane activities that go almost unnoticed and unrecorded. Many of these will follow a regular rhythm or routine that may vary over the life course as personal and family circumstances change. They may also change over a weekly or seasonal cycle. Although individually such activities could be viewed as trivial, collectively these routines and rhythms construct the fabric of all socie…
Using life histories to explore the complexities of internal and international migration
Residential migration is one of the most problematic demographic variables. In Britain there are no sources that routinely record all moves, and the motives behind relocation are rarely recorded. In this paper I argue that the use of life histories can add important depth and clarity to the study of residential moves. The paper focuses on two themes: the ways in which internal and international migration may be linked together over the life cours…
Young Women on the Move Britain circa 1880–1950
Travel is an essential part of everyday life for most people, and it inevitably brings inconvenience at times, but women have often experienced particular and distinctive constraints and harassments while traveling that may inhibit or reduce their mobility. However, we know relatively little in detail about how, why, and how much women traveled in the past. This article provides new evidence about female mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-cent…
Walking spaces
Walking is one of the most sustainable and healthy forms of everyday travel over short distances, but pedestrianism has declined substantially in almost all countries over the past century. This paper uses a combination of personal testimonies and government reports to examine how the spaces through which people travel have changed over time, to chart the impacts that such changes have had on pedestrian mobility and to consider the shifts that ar…
Moving Home And Changing Lives
This paper examines the ways in which connections to family, community and associated activities changed following a residential move. Evidence is taken from a single diary written by a woman who lived in north Lancashire in the twentieth century. Initially the diarist retained quite strong links back to her home community, but these gradually weakened over time. However, the activities that she undertook changed relatively little, they were simp…
Peter Gatrell, The unsettling of Europe. The great migration, 1945 to the present
Migration both to and within Europe has been one of the most significant social and political issues of the past eight decades. It has changed societies and economies, challenged established attitu
Newspaper Reporting of Migrants in England 1851–1911
England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was no stranger to migrants and, inevitably, migrants were not always warmly received. They were often stigmatised for their perceived differences of language, religion and behaviour, and were blamed for a range of social ills including crime and low wages. In this article I examine print news reporting in six English port cities from c1850 to 1911. I focus on the ways in which crime reporting in …
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
On the street in nineteenth-century London
This article uses statements made at London's Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) by victims and witnesses of crime in nineteenth-century London to reveal the hidden history of pedestrian movement on the city's streets. It demonstrates that men and women of all ages and social groups walked the streets at most times of the day and night, and argues that walking was not only a normal and taken-for-granted activity, but that pedestrianism could…
Life writing as a source for local population history
Diaries and other forms of life writing can add significantly to the study of local populations and societies, especially when used in conjunction with more conventional aggregate sources. All the key demographic events have important personal and emotional resonances that can never be revealed by statistical analysis of births, marriages or deaths. Personal accounts can add meaning to population history and demonstrate the familial and community…
Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c .1850
This paper focuses on the extent to which everyday travel behaviour in Britain changes in relation to family responsibilities, and examines how this has altered over the past century and a half. It is argued that prior to the mid-twentieth century changes in the family such as increased child-care responsibilities barely influenced the modes of transport used for everyday travel, but that increasingly in the later twentieth century people adjuste…
Connecting past, present, and future
We cannot escape the past. It is always with us in our memories, in the physical landscape and environment that endures, and in the legacy of past policies and planning decisions at both local and global scales. At a personal level we are constantly learning from past actions and experiences, trying hard not to repeat previous mistakes, but in terms of policy formulation all too often the decisions that are taken today – and which shape the futur…
Connecting historical studies of transport, mobility and migration
This paper argues that the sub-disciplines of transport history, migration history and mobilities studies too rarely interact directly with each other, and that there is much to be gained from the integration and cross-fertilisation of different approaches. Migration historians rarely directly consider the modes of transport used to travel, and although there has been increased interaction between transport historians and mobilities scholars in r…
Travelling through the city
This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840. It is argued that people easily engaged with new forms and sites of mobility, mixed transport modes and incorporated them into their everyday travel. They enjoyed the greater speeds of travel that became available and expected transport networks to work. It is argued …
Mobility, Transport and Social Inclusion
This paper argues that although it is now possible to travel more quickly and easily than ever before, transport-related social exclusion is more likely than it was in the past. Using evidence drawn from life writing and oral testimonies I examine the ways in which people accessed everyday transport over the past two centuries. In the early nineteenth century mobility options were limited and most people travelled in similar ways, though the rich…
Cities, spaces and movement
Travelling through a city was (and remains) a routine experience for many people, but direct information on such movements is hard to uncover for the more distant past. This article uses selected diaries to explore the ways in which urban residents interacted with and responded to the spaces through which they travelled in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. It is argued that while some types of travel and associated environment…
‘Mrs Harvey came home from Norwich … her pocket picked at the station and all her money stolen’
In most societies the ability to move easily from place to place is a taken-for-granted aspect of twenty-first century life, but much less is known about such mobility in the past with a tendency for accounts to focus on the exceptional rather than the routine. In this paper we use two personal diaries written in England in the mid-nineteenth century and early-twentieth centuries to explore the ways in which everyday mobility was accomplished in …
My father found it for me’
Leaving education and gaining employment is a significant life course transition for most people. This article explores the processes by which young people gained their first job in mid-twentieth-century urban Britain, and examines the ways in which this changed in relation to major shifts in society, economy and culture. Key themes include the role of parents and other family members, changes in levels of autonomy and control and the impacts of …
Moving around the City
There remains only limited understanding of perceptions of travel behaviour in relation to short journeys in urban areas and, in particular, the perceived role that walking and cycling for personal travel can realistically play in contemporary society. This paper reveals discourses surrounding the practice, performance, identity, conflicts, and visions relating to walking and cycling in English cities. These were derived from a large-scale study …
Household decision-making for everyday travel
Histories of People and Landscape
Histories of People and Landscape: essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey." Social History, 46(4), pp. 466–467
Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century
Poplulation migration is one of the demographic and social processes which have structured the British economy and society over the last 250 years. It affects individuals, families, communities, places, economic and social structures and governments. This book examines the pattern and process of migration in Britain over the last three centuries. Using late 1990s research and data, the authors have shed light on migrations patterns including inte…
The Residential Segregation of Migrant Communities in Mid-Victorian Liverpool
Mid-Victorian Liverpool contained large communities of Welsh, Scots and Irish migrants. Each group was residentially segregated both from each other and from the host population. It is suggested that three main factors affected the extent to which residential segregation occurred: first, the socio-economic structure of the migrant group: secondly, cultural cohesion within the migrant community; and, thirdly, the extent to which the migrant had pr…
Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880-1930
Sweden, Thord Stromberg Denmark, Ole Hyldtoft England and Wales, Colin G. Pooley Scotland, Richard Rodger Ireland, Frederick Aalen The Netherlands, Niels Prak and Hugo Primus Belgium, Patricia Van den Eeckhout France, Michel Lescure Germany, Hans J. Teuteberg and Clemens Wischermann Portugal, Manuel C. Teixeira Greece, Lila Leontidou housing strategy in Europe, 1880-1930 - towards a comparative perspective, Colin G. Pooley
Residential Mobility in the Victorian City
Intra-urban residential mobility was an important factor of change in the social and spatial structure of the Victorian town, yet surprisingly little is known about its detailed extent and form. Firstly, sources and techniques that may be used to study nineteenth-century residential mobility are considered; secondly, current knowledge about Victorian mobility in Britain and America is reviewed; and, thirdly, a case study of mobility in Liverpool,…
Modal choice and modal change
Migration and urbanization in northwest England circa 1760–1830
Household decision-making for everyday travel
Talk, technologies and teenagers
This paper focuses on the methods used in a project which set out to capture the movements and to consider the wellbeing of 30 teenagers on their journeys to and from school. A mobile phone linked to a GPS receiver was used to automatically log travel patterns whilst the respondents added ‘blog’ images and text about how they felt on the journey. Follow up interviews further explored the data. The paper shows that by using a range of methods the …
The journey to school in Britain since the 1940s
The journey to school has major significance both for families and urban environments, yet little is known in detail about the ways this has changed over the twentieth century. This study uses oral history evidence to compare decisions about the journey to school in the past and the present, and to assess the impact of these changes on the mobility experience of children. The paper argues that despite obvious increases in car use, and decreases i…
Welsh migration to England in the mid-nineteenth century
Landscapes without the car
Residential Differentiation in Victorian Cities
The extent to which residential differentiation existed in mid-Victorian Liverpool and Leeds is reassessed in an attempt to reconcile conflicting interpretations of residential separation that have been put forward by various research workers. It is suggested that patterns of residential differentiation assume greater value when viewed in the context of their significance and meaning for Victorian society. Examples of the economic, environmental …
The Impact of New Transport Technologies on Intraurban Mobility
In this paper the authors reappraise the ways in which travellers in urban areas have interacted with new transport technologies and argue that mobility change over the past century or so may be less than is sometimes assumed. Attention is focused on changes in the journey to work over the 20th century, on the experience of new travel technologies by an adolescent female in the late 19th century, on perceptions of competing forms of urban transpo…
Changing home and workplace in Victorian London
The paper uses unusually rich evidence from a manuscript life history written in 1901 from personal diaries to explore the changing relationship between home and workplace in Victorian London. The life history of Henry Jaques demonstrates the way in which decisions about employment and residence were related both to each other and to stages of the family life course. The uncertainty of work, lack of income to support a growing family, rising aspi…
Travelling through the city
This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840. It is argued that people easily engaged with new forms and sites of mobility, mixed transport modes and incorporated them into their everyday travel. They enjoyed the greater speeds of travel that became available and expected transport networks to work. It is argued …
Multiple Scales of Time-Space and Lifecourse
Connecting historical studies of transport, mobility and migration
This paper argues that the sub-disciplines of transport history, migration history and mobilities studies too rarely interact directly with each other, and that there is much to be gained from the integration and cross-fertilisation of different approaches. Migration historians rarely directly consider the modes of transport used to travel, and although there has been increased interaction between transport historians and mobilities scholars in r…
Cities, spaces and movement
Travelling through a city was (and remains) a routine experience for many people, but direct information on such movements is hard to uncover for the more distant past. This article uses selected diaries to explore the ways in which urban residents interacted with and responded to the spaces through which they travelled in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. It is argued that while some types of travel and associated environment…
Constructing a suburban identity
Coping with congestion
Commuting, transport and urban form
The paper explores the links between changing transport technology, individual mobility and urban form in the British cities of Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century. The variability of individual commuting preferences is stressed, and it is argued that decisions about the provision of public transport rarely took into account the views of individual commuters. It is also suggested that factors governing modal choice have remained q…
The journey to work
The paper uses original quantitative and qualitative evidence to examine changes in the distance travelled and time spent on the journey to work in twentieth‐century Britain. Emphasis is placed on variations by gender and location, and on the implications of modal change. We suggest that analysis of past commuting trends may have implications for contemporary transport policy
Britain 1740-1950
Preface: the economic and social transformation of Britain. Part 1 Britain from the 1740s to the 1830s the political, economic and social context demographic change the countryside industry and industrialization urbanization and urban life. Part 2 Britain from the 1830s to the 1890s: the political, economic and social context demographic change the countryside industry and industrialization urbanization and urban life. Part 3 Britain from the 189…
Walking spaces
Walking is one of the most sustainable and healthy forms of everyday travel over short distances, but pedestrianism has declined substantially in almost all countries over the past century. This paper uses a combination of personal testimonies and government reports to examine how the spaces through which people travel have changed over time, to chart the impacts that such changes have had on pedestrian mobility and to consider the shifts that ar…
Moving around the City
There remains only limited understanding of perceptions of travel behaviour in relation to short journeys in urban areas and, in particular, the perceived role that walking and cycling for personal travel can realistically play in contemporary society. This paper reveals discourses surrounding the practice, performance, identity, conflicts, and visions relating to walking and cycling in English cities. These were derived from a large-scale study …
The Residential Segregation of Migrant Communities in Mid-Victorian Liverpool
Mid-Victorian Liverpool contained large communities of Welsh, Scots and Irish migrants. Each group was residentially segregated both from each other and from the host population. It is suggested that three main factors affected the extent to which residential segregation occurred: first, the socio-economic structure of the migrant group: secondly, cultural cohesion within the migrant community; and, thirdly, the extent to which the migrant had pr…
Occupations of father and son in mid-Victorian England
Historical geography at the I.B.G
Domestic service in late Victorian and Edwardian England, 1871–1914
Household structure in three English market towns, 1851–1871
Residential Mobility in the Victorian City
Intra-urban residential mobility was an important factor of change in the social and spatial structure of the Victorian town, yet surprisingly little is known about its detailed extent and form. Firstly, sources and techniques that may be used to study nineteenth-century residential mobility are considered; secondly, current knowledge about Victorian mobility in Britain and America is reviewed; and, thirdly, a case study of mobility in Liverpool,…
Welsh migration to England in the mid-nineteenth century
The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities
Residential Differentiation in Victorian Cities
The extent to which residential differentiation existed in mid-Victorian Liverpool and Leeds is reassessed in an attempt to reconcile conflicting interpretations of residential separation that have been put forward by various research workers. It is suggested that patterns of residential differentiation assume greater value when viewed in the context of their significance and meaning for Victorian society. Examples of the economic, environmental …
Derek Gregory, Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution
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Housing for the poorest poor
Access to Housing on Merseyside, 1919-39
This paper examines the interaction of different tenure types and the characteristics of households living on Merseyside in the inter-war period. Although changes in the housing market on Merseyside broadly reflected national trends, the particular economic situation encountered in Liverpool led to severe problems of housing provision and need. Municipal housing was of much greater importance than in many other cities, but much of this housing wa…
Feminism and the family in England, 1880–1939
Slums
Slums and Redevelopment
Britain 1740-1950
Preface: the economic and social transformation of Britain. Part 1 Britain from the 1740s to the 1830s the political, economic and social context demographic change the countryside industry and industrialization urbanization and urban life. Part 2 Britain from the 1830s to the 1890s: the political, economic and social context demographic change the countryside industry and industrialization urbanization and urban life. Part 3 Britain from the 189…
Migration and urbanization in northwest England circa 1760–1830
Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880-1930
Sweden, Thord Stromberg Denmark, Ole Hyldtoft England and Wales, Colin G. Pooley Scotland, Richard Rodger Ireland, Frederick Aalen The Netherlands, Niels Prak and Hugo Primus Belgium, Patricia Van den Eeckhout France, Michel Lescure Germany, Hans J. Teuteberg and Clemens Wischermann Portugal, Manuel C. Teixeira Greece, Lila Leontidou housing strategy in Europe, 1880-1930 - towards a comparative perspective, Colin G. Pooley
Migrants, Emigrants, and Immigrants
Migration Trends in British Rural Areas from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Longitudinal residential histories are used to examine the extent to which three rural areas in Britain had distinctive migration histories from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Migration flows into and out of the regions are used to examine the extent to which the regions were integrated into the British migration system, and the relative importance of rural to urban migration is assessed.... Analysis reveals a high degree of short-distance mobil…
Changing home and workplace in Victorian London
The paper uses unusually rich evidence from a manuscript life history written in 1901 from personal diaries to explore the changing relationship between home and workplace in Victorian London. The life history of Henry Jaques demonstrates the way in which decisions about employment and residence were related both to each other and to stages of the family life course. The uncertainty of work, lack of income to support a growing family, rising aspi…
Leaving Home
Leaving the parental home for the first time is one of the most significant migration decisions in the life course, but relatively little is known about such events in the past. This article uses high-quality longitudinal data on the lifetime residential history of individuals to investigate changes in the age at leaving home both over time and between different groups of the population. The age at which men and women left the parental home fell …
Moving through the City
In the XIXth century the journey to work was one of the main constraints on intra-urban residential mobility. During the XXth century these ties have gradually been weakened as more people have gained access to faster forms of transport, and workers have been able to live further from their places of employment. However, we know relatively little about precisely when and how such changes occurred. This paper uses original quantitative and qualita…
Front Londonderry to London
The journey to work
The paper uses original quantitative and qualitative evidence to examine changes in the distance travelled and time spent on the journey to work in twentieth‐century Britain. Emphasis is placed on variations by gender and location, and on the implications of modal change. We suggest that analysis of past commuting trends may have implications for contemporary transport policy
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