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Transport & Mobility History

First Airplane Flight

Venue: Online-via Zoom.
Time: Thursday 17:30
Convenors: David Turner (Aston University/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), Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (University of Kent) and Lewis Smith (University of Essex).

Term 1- Autumn 2022

Revealing the Past

Melissa McGreechan (Transport for London Corporate Archives)

Online- via Zoom

“Our petticoats up above our knees”: Pedestrian Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Diaries

Trish Bredar (Northwestern University)

Online- via Zoom

‘To whom it doth belong’: highways, law and governance in the parish of Halifax, c.1550-1700

Murray Seccombe (Lancaster)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2023

Meet the Archivist: The Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative

Tim Powell (The National Archives), Lucy Bonner (Institution of Mechanical Engineers)

Online- via Zoom

"Close Contact”: skin and the space of the nineteenth-century omnibus

Charlotte Mathieson (Surrey)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2023

Relieving Broadway: The Politics of Traffic in Nineteenth-Century New York City

David Schley (Hong Kong Baptist University/University of East Anglia)

Online- via Zoom

The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French literature, 1880-1920

Una Brogan ()

Online- via Zoom

Transport and Mobility History Seminar

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (University of Kent)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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