Carlos Lopez Galviz

Carlos is Finance and Administration Officer (0.8FTE) at the Victoria County History providing support for the website, proof reading, events, internal and external enquiries. He graduated with a DPhil in History from the University of London in 2009. His research and work are interdisciplinary –drawing on architecture (BA), social sciences (MSc), and history (DPhil) and focus on modern European cities. He has been the recipient of several international research grants and awards by institutions such as the Leverhulme Trust (2006-09) and the Royal Historical Society (2006 and 2009) in the UK, the ZEIT-Stiftung (2010) and the Freie Universität Berlin (2004) in Germany; and the International Council for Canadian Studies, Canada (2002). His most recent publications examine the introduction of electricity into the city railway networks of London and Paris c.1880-1910 and the relationship between railway plans and socialist ideals in the English and French capitals at the turn of the twentieth century. He is currently working on the monograph Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris and the Nineteenth Century, which presents the introduction of the city railway in the English and French capitals both as a result and a structuring element of the transformation of the two cities into two allegedly modern metropolises. More recent work explores the ideas about, and realities of, traffic and congestion in modern European cities and their relationship to contemporary policy debates.