Drawing from a range of sources including the journals of Victorian cycling club members and the writings of H.G. Wells, this is the story of the excitement that greeted the emergence of bicycles into everyday life in the late nineteenth century From cycling as a source of fashion and socialising in sporting clubs, to travel around the British countryside, to its importance for widening the gene pool and its role in the women’s liberation movement Revolution presents the bicycle as a marvel of modern technology that transformed Britain and the world over.
