Professor Karl Spracklen, Leeds Beckett University
Thursday 8 February, 5-8pm
(HC.0.06, Heart of Campus, Collegiate Campus)
Karl will argue that Le Tour allowed local communities to embrace a cosmopolitan European identity alongside their existing northern English or Yorkshire identities, and that the race itself allowed spectators to be proud about the northern English landscape through which the cyclists battled.
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