All Outputs (17)

Decommissioning The Twentieth Century (2023)
Book

In the decades after 1945, Britain witnessed a dramatic period of technological innovation and expansion. The state transformed the countryside with grids of pylons, huge concrete edifices, and a new era of extraction, while both rural and urban soci... Read More about Decommissioning The Twentieth Century.

What happens when rural modernity ceases to be modern? (2023)
Book Chapter

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter

APPROPRIATED HERITAGE? ACCESS CAMPAIGNS, TRESPASS, AND LOCAL RIGHTS IN EARLY-TWENTIETH CENTURY UPLAND ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA. (2022)
Book Chapter

The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919 (2020)
Journal Article

Beyond the Nation (2020)
Book Chapter

Mountaineers in the City (2020)
Book Chapter

Constructing the Alps (2020)
Book Chapter

Mountaineers Against the City (2020)
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Risk and Danger (2020)
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The Indoors in the Outdoors (2020)
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Time (2020)
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Conclusion (2020)
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In the conclusion, a short analysis of a founding myth of ‘British’ rock climbing—the ‘Munich Climb’ incident—demonstrates how far contests over the meanings of modernity continued to shape mountain leisure cultures into the twentieth century. It goe... Read More about Conclusion.

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany (2020)
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This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in... Read More about Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany.

Alpine agency: locals, mountaineers and tourism in the eastern Alps, c. 1860-1914 (2016)
Journal Article

Like other forms of tourism, the activities of Alpine visitors in the late nineteenth century have normally been understood as created by the tourists themselves. In the narratives of both contemporaries and subsequent historians, local people tend t... Read More about Alpine agency: locals, mountaineers and tourism in the eastern Alps, c. 1860-1914.

The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment, by Peter H. Hansen (2014)
Journal Article

Partnership or Co-operation? Family, Politics and Strenuousness in the pre-First World War Co-operative Holidays Association (2013)
Journal Article