Outputs (13)

Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production (2025)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (in press). Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production. Modern British History,

In the 1920s and 1930s, many British manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. In part, this was a response to an increasingly competitive market for branded household commodities, in which visitors were off... Read More about Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production.

A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964 (2025)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., Hornsey, R., & Ingram, H. (in press). A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964. Journal of Pacific History,

In 1944, Boots The Chemists, the UK's leading retail pharmacy chain, opened a store in Suva, Fiji. It lasted less than twenty years. The brief and troubled history of this store – hitherto untold – reveals a great deal about imperialist retail cultur... Read More about A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964.

Bacon's Adventures in the Photo Booth: Queer Self-Representation and the Fragmenting Head (2024)
Book Chapter
Hornsey, R. (2024). Bacon's Adventures in the Photo Booth: Queer Self-Representation and the Fragmenting Head. In A. Pedrosa, & L. Cosendey (Eds.), Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat (102-123). Musee De Arte De Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand/KMEC Books

Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body (2022)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2022). Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body. Technology and Culture, 63(4), 1005-1032. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0155

This article provides the first critical history of escalators on the London Underground railway and the ways their introduction reconfigured passengers’ bodies. As the Underground became a coordinated and unitary technological system, its central... Read More about Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body.

David Rooney, Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London (2020)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2020). David Rooney, Spaces of Congestion and Traffic: Politics and Technologies in Twentieth-Century London. Journal of Transport History, Article 002252662097885. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022526620978853

"The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2018). "The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain. Journal of British Studies, 57(4), 812-839. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.116

This article explores the cultural dynamics of branding and mass consumption in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on Penguin Books’ cartoon mascot, which appeared on all of the firm's paperback covers and in-store promotional material fr... Read More about "The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain.

“The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2019). “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Women's History Review, 28(1), 111-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1457126

In May 1935, the British manufacturer Boots launched ‘Number Seven’, a premium range of skin-care products sold via its nationwide network of chain-store chemists. Using material from the Boots Archive, this paper traces the early history of Number S... Read More about “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain.

The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form (2016)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2016). The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form. cultural geographies, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572600

For a decade from the late 1990s, the A-Z London street atlas became a recurrent motif within art works and popular media texts. This essay collates and explores these cultural responses to the atlas, to consider what this might reveal about the affe... Read More about The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form.

Lázló Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo: animal enclosures and the unleashed camera (2016)
Book Chapter
Hornsey, R. (2016). Lázló Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo: animal enclosures and the unleashed camera. In M. Lawrence, & K. Lury (Eds.), The zoo and screen media: images of exhibition and encounter. Palgrave Macmillan

Listening to the Tube Map: Rhythm and the Historiography of Urban Map Use (2012)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2012). Listening to the Tube Map: Rhythm and the Historiography of Urban Map Use. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(4), 675-693. https://doi.org/10.1068/d1410

This paper is in two parts. In the first half I consider the challenge posed by the recent performative turn in critical cartography to the urban historical geographer. If maps come into being only within the diverse moments of their use, then how ca... Read More about Listening to the Tube Map: Rhythm and the Historiography of Urban Map Use.