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Transport & Mobility History Seminar

First Airplane Flight

Venue: Online-via Zoom.
Time: Thursday 17:30
Convenors: David Turner (University of York), Tamara Thornhill (Transport for London), Christopher Phillips (Independent), Charlotte Mathieson, (University of Surrey), Oliver Betts (National Railway Museum), Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth)

Term 1- Autumn 2020

Colonizing Canal-Land: Adventurers, Empire, and the British Waterways

Jodie Matthews (Huddersfield)

Online- via Zoom

Mobility and the sentence

Chris Ewers (Exeter)

Online- via Zoom

Fools, snobs and men”; how public transport can tell us about changing London society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Simon Abernethy (Transport for London)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2021

The Driverless Car in 1960s Britain

Georgina Lockton (University of Leicester/ Science Museum Group)

Online- via Zoom

‘From this new culture of the air we finally see’: ‘Groundmindedness’ in the 1930s

Luke Seaber (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

The Land Transport Archives Network

Mike Rogers (The National Archives)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2021

From BOTTOMS to TOPS: 40 years of computer development on British Railways

Grahame Boyes (independent)

Online- via Zoom

Making space and moving through space on London horse-buses, 1829-1914

Richard Dennis (UCL)

Online- via Zoom

Meet the Archivist – The Bus Archive

Philip Kirk (Bus Archive)

Online- via Zoom

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