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Title Transport and its place in history making the connections / edited by David Turner
Published London : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser
Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser
Contents <P>"Making the Connections" -- Introduction <BR><EM>David Turner</EM></P><P><STRONG>Part I: Policy and Practice</STRONG></P><P>1. 'Supersonic/gin & tonic: The rise and fall of Concorde, 1950-2000'.<BR><EM>Peter Lyth</EM></P><P>2. Observing 'Saint Monday': variations in the potential for leisure mobility for workers in the north of England in the mid-19th century<BR><EM>Susan Major</EM></P><P>3. The vulnerability paradox: the illusion of permanence in the UK public transport industry<BR><EM>Kevin Tennent</EM></P><P>4. Barrels rolling free: modal shift in the British brewing industry, 1897-1914<BR><EM>David Turner</EM></P><P><STRONG>Part II: Cultures of Transport</STRONG></P><P>5. Maintaining the Connections: A Social and Cultural History of the Permanent Way<BR><EM>Oliver Betts</EM></P><P>6. "Being poor is going to the Ritz on the bus": The portrayal of buses and trams in popular culture<BR><EM>Martin Higginson</EM></P><P>7. Canals in Nineteenth-century Literary History<BR><EM>Jodie Matthews</EM></P><P><STRONG>Part III: Methodologies</STRONG></P><P>8. "The Trajectories of Railway Kinship Families in Victorian York"<BR><EM>Philip Batman</EM></P><P>9. Sensory ethnography and film interpretation: sociological readings of historical archives<BR><EM>Peter Cox</EM></P><P>10. Identification of the urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century horse transport: a case study of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK<BR><EM>Megan Doole</EM></P><P>11. Digital disasters: Crowdsourcing the railway accident<BR><EM>Mike Esbester</EM></P>
Subject Transportation -- Great Britain -- History
Transportation
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Turner, David, 1982- editor.
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