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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)

Recordings of this Term 1 seminars are now available on the IHR YouTube channel.

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

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