Peter Merriman traces the social and cultural histories and geographies of driving spaces through an examination of the design, construction and use of England’s M1 motorway in the 1950s and 1960s.




A first-of-its-kind academic study examining the production and consumption of the landscapes and spaces of a British motorway

An interdisciplinary approach, engaging with theoretical and empirical work from sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and geography

Contains 38 high quality illustrations

Based on extensive, original archive work