Transport and Its Place in History : Making the Connections (Paperback)

“Making the Connections” ? Introduction David TurnerPart I: Policy and Practice1. ‘Supersonic/gin & tonic: The rise and fall of Concorde, 1950-2000’.Peter Lyth2. Observing 'Saint Monday': variations in the potential for leisure mobility for workers in the north of England in the mid-19th centurySusan Major3. The vulnerability paradox: the illusion of permanence in the UK public transport industryKevin Tennent4. Barrels rolling free: modal shift in the British brewing industry, 1897-1914David TurnerPart II: Cultures of Transport5. Maintaining the Connections: A Social and Cultural History of the Permanent WayOliver Betts6. “Being poor is going to the Ritz on the bus”: The portrayal of buses and trams in popular cultureMartin Higginson7. Canals in Nineteenth-century Literary HistoryJodie MatthewsPart III: Methodologies8. “The Trajectories of Railway Kinship Families in Victorian York”Philip Batman9. Sensory ethnography and film interpretation: sociological readings of historical archivesPeter Cox10. Identification of the urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century horse transport: a case study of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UKMegan Doole11. Digital disasters: Crowdsourcing the railway accidentMike Esbester