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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 2021

The Rhubarb Triangle: from Rail to Road. A Template for UK Seasonal Produce in the Twentieth Century?

Owen Carlstrand (York)

Online- via Zoom

“Home for Xmas?”: mobility, marketing and London’s railways at Christmas, 1900-1914

David Turner (York)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2022

Blind Passengers and Alternative Sensory Histories of the Railways

Oli Betts (National Railway Museum)

Online- via Zoom

Meet the Archivist: The National Fairground and Circus Archive

Arantza Barrutia Ezenarro (The National Fairground and Circus Archive)

Online- via Zoom

The Indian Eye on Railway Life: Modernity, Empire and Mobility

Alicia Barnes (Surrey)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3: Spring/Summer 2022

British Transport Films: Documenting Britain's Railways, 1950-1983

Online- via Zoom

‘Trams and Dusty Trees’: Literary Modernism and London’s Electric Tramways, 1901–27

Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Online- via Zoom

Railway History’s Changing Landscape – A Personal View

Terry Gourvish (LSE )

Online- via Zoom

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