Transport
30 Jan 2019
The city under the railway arches: Infrastructures of social value in Victorian London
Peter Jones, IHR
21 Jun 2018
Engineers, flyovers and empires: the Silvertown Way in Canning Town and ‘the achievement of democracy’, 1929–34
David Rooney , Science Museum, London, and Royal Holloway, University of London
29 Jan 2018
Building bridges of trust: child transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII
Ann Nehlin, University of Stockholm
14 Dec 2017
Texts in transit: the circulation of books among British prisoners of war in Napoleonic France and Mauritius
Elodie Duché, York St John University
16 Nov 2017
Gendered mobility at sea 1960-2017. Comparing women's changing seagoing roles in the royal and merchant navies.
Jo Stanley
22 Jun 2017
Meet the Transport Archivist
Tamara Thornhill (Corporate Archivist, Transport for London) and Faye McLeod (Archivist, Jaguar Heritage Trust at the British Motor Museum)
25 May 2017
Who Shall Guard the Guards? - London Transport Governance 1905-33
James Fowler (University of York)
16 Feb 2017
The Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the Chilterns
Dr Rudi Newman (Independent Scholar)
23 Nov 2015
'My longing desire to go to sea': wanderlust and wayward youth in early modern England
Sue Jones
12 Mar 2015
Coolies to Cosmopolitans: the Global World of Indian Seafarers, c.1870-1945
Gopalan Balachandran (Genéve)
29 Jan 2015
"On British felony, the sun never sets": Australian convict narratives, 1788 to 1868
Dr Tim Causer (University College London)
23 Oct 2013
Segregating the city: class, the railways, and Greater London 1880-1920
Simon Abernethy (Cambridge)
13 Mar 2013
"Riding on Top of the Car": The cinematic tram and urban transformation
Karolina Kendall-Bush (University College London)
28 Jan 2013
La Bataille du Rail? New Interpretations of Cheminots in Vichy France
Ludivine Broch (Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism/Birkbeck)
18 Jan 2013
A transatlantic connection: Philadelphia, London, and the urban transit at the turn of the twentieth century
Jim Wolfinger (DePaul University)
18 Jan 2013
Crossing oceans to cross rivers: trans-Atlantic knowledge and capital in tunnelling history
Tim White (New Jersey City University)
18 Jan 2013
Electricity underground: the politics of a new technology in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century
Carlos Lopez Galviz (University of London)
17 Jan 2013
Notes from the Underground: Seamus Heaney's 'District and Circle'
Tom Herron (Leeds Metropolitan University)