A Bibliography of the History of Inland Waterways, Railways and Road Transport in the British Isles, 2007 (original) (raw)
Introduction: 150 Years of the London Underground
The London Journal, 2013
Anniversaries are difficult moments on which to hang academic scholarship. There is a tendency to celebrate rather than evaluate, a temptation to indulge in whiggish interpretations of progress from humble beginnings, and, in any project that takes years if not decades to reach fruition, a certain arbitrariness in deciding when the anniversary occurs. In the case of London's underground railway system, the focus of this special issue, several key dates vie for commemorative attention: 1890, the date of the first deep-level, wholly underground line, when new technologies-electric traction and deep-level tunnelling-were united; 1933, the key political-managerial date, when the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) took over control of almost the entire Underground network; even 1853, when the North Metropolitan Railway, which became the Metropolitan Railway, first received Parliamentary authorization, and the process of planning and building the Underground began in earnest. The last two dates have the satisfying arithmetic quality of being exactly 80 and 160 years ago, and the first was, in fact, celebrated (albeit modestly) as the 'Tube Centenary' in 1990. But 150 years is a more obvious anniversary, not least because it marks the longest period of operation of any underground railway, reminding us that the first section of the Metropolitan, the 'world's first underground railway', opened to the public in January 1863, employing tried and tested technologies but in a novel combination to solve a new problem: how to handle traffic in cities that could no longer be traversed comfortably on foot. Ideas about traffic and comfort have changed since then, and will continue to change in the future, making us mindful of both marked continuities and the contingency of change. Anniversaries can also be inward-looking, celebrating the uniqueness of the people, place or innovation being commemorated. So, in devoting an entire issue of the London Journal to the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, we wanted to look beyond London, to chart comparisons with and influences upon other cities, and to range beyond technological and social history into questions of memory,
British transport history: shifting perspectives and new agendas
in M. Oliver and J. Wilson (eds) Economic Success and Failure Through Time and Space: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft, 2002, 1-29. Copyright 2002 Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot., 2002
This chapter is a contribution to the festschrift of Derek Aldcroft, formerly Professor of Economic History at Leicester and Manchester. It offers a retrospective on his contribution to transport history and suggests new research agendas for the subject.
The development of the railway network in Britain 1825-1911
2018
This chapter describes the development of the British railway network during the nineteenth century and indicates some of its effects. It is intended to be a general introduction to the subject and takes advantage of new GIS (Geographical Information System) maps to chart the development of the railway network over time much more accurately and completely than has hitherto been possible. The GIS dataset stems from collaboration by researchers at the University of Cambridge and a Spanish team, led by Professor Jordi Marti-Henneberg, at the University of Lleida. Our GIS dataset derives ultimately from the late Michael Cobb’s definitive work ‘The Railways of Great Britain. A Historical Atlas’. Our account of the development of the British railway system makes no pretence at originality, but the chapter does present some new findings on the economic impact of the railways that results from a project at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Professor Dan Bogart at the Univers...
From Scythes to Suburbs: the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the Chilterns
This lecture, based on the countywide section of my PhD thesis, was presented at the 2015 'Hertfordshire Association for Local History' Annual Symposium. It was also the basis for lectures presented at the National Archive and National Railway Museum under their 'Railways Change Lives' conferences. Presenting a brief overview of the railways in this region, it introduces the varied ways which railways acted as a factor on socio-economic development in the period, focusing on population, occupation and land use. Finishing with an unusual case study exception, it concludes by summarising the important - but not uniform - role railways played overall.
2019
© Max Satchell, Bob Bennett, and Leigh Shaw-Taylor, University of Cambridge, and Dan Bogart University of California, Irvine, members of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure assert their legal and moral rights to be identified as the authors of this paper; it may be referenced provided full acknowledgement is made: Cite (Harvard format): Satchell, Max, Bennett, Robert J., Bogart, Dan and Shaw-Taylor, Leigh (2019) Constructing Parish-level Data and RSD-level Data on Transport Infrastructure in England and Wales 1851-1911 Working Paper 16: ESRC project ES/M010953: ‘Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses’, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography and Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
2017
This dissertation investigates two closely related topics regarding London\u27s transportation environment. The first was to determine the shape of early modern London\u27s transportation infrastructure and determine who was responsible for its design, construction and maintenance. The second goal was to investigate the experiences of those moving about the city. In some cases, it was possible to find substantive information on London\u27s transport milieu; for example, the number of gates and the size of the wall surrounding the city from Stow\u27s 1598 Survey of London or the rules regarding street cleaning in London\u27s Letter Books. In most cases, however, it was necessary to tease bits of information from the comments left in many other sources. Thus, we figuratively listen to Samuel Pepys remark on walking in some of London\u27s muddy streets; Donald Lupton on the experience of being splashed by a coach, or John Gay on the dangers of walking at night. This dissertation then c...
2017
I wish to thank the staff of the London Metropolitan Archives. Their help during my year-long sojourn at their facility made my research both fruitful and enjoyable. When I returned home to write, they always promptly and helpfully responded to my queries for additional information. I also wish to express my appreciation for the work of several original web document resources: British History Online, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Books Online, and the British Library Online, have all been of immense value for additional resources and clarification, especially when seventeenth century paleography challenged my abilities to decipher. For inspiration, I would like to acknowledge Mr. Fred Geraci, my high school history teacher, who in those ancient days, now more than 40 years ago, inspired me to look at history in a different way. He is now retired, but over the years, he has inspired generations of young men and women at Purcell-Marian High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the course of my academic career, there have been many professors whose love of the subject encouraged my pursuit of history as a profession. Otis C.