Cycling, Bread and Circuses? When Le Tour Came to Yorkshire and What It Left Behind
HC.0.06 , Heart of the Campus, Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United KingdomProfessor Karl Spracklen, Leeds Beckett University In the summer of 2014, there was no way of getting away from it: Le Tour de France, the most famous and prestigious professional men’s cycling events, was coming to Yorkshire (UK), and Skipton, where I live, was in the middle of it. The message from people in tourism…