Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013
A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum.
Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum
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)
17 Jan 2013
Listening and sounding in the London Underground: sonic memories as embodiments of technological Infrastructure
Ximena Alarcon (University of the Arts)
17 Jan 2013
'Stand clear of the doors, please': an aural journey on the London Underground
Jacob Paskins (University of Cambridge)
17 Jan 2013
The advantage of a trip abroad. The emergence of architectural Modernism
Ulrike Weber (Technical University Kaiserslautern)
17 Jan 2013
A job for life: changes seen in a 50-year career on London Underground, 1916-1966
Piers Connor (University of Birmingham)
17 Jan 2013
Class and commuting on the underground, 1863-1939
Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge)
17 Jan 2013
Letting off steam: the perils and possibilities of underground travel in Victorian and Edwardian London
Richard Dennis (University College London)
17 Jan 2013
Pick's posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground
Oliver Green (Independent Scholar)