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Voters in many parts of England go to the polls on Thursday, as local elections take place. Some 8,425 council seats are up for grabs and about 25,000 people are standing. The BBC hasHow the bicycle changed the worldAngeline Allen caused a sensation in 1893 by cycling around Newark, on the outskirts of New York City, without a dress on."She wore trousers!" bellowed the headline of a popular titillating men's magazine, adding that she was young, pretty, and divorced.
The bicycle was a liberating force for women. They needed to shed their whalebone girdles and hoop-reinforced skirts in favour of something simpler and more comfortable. They would ride without chaperones, too. The forces of conservatism were alarmed, fretting that"immodest bicycling" would lead to masturbation, even prostitution. But these protests soon seemed laughable.
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