Railways And Culture In Britain
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Railways And Culture In Britain
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Author : Ian Carter
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001
Railways And Culture In Britain written by Ian Carter and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.
British Railways
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Author : A. K. Astbury
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
British Railways written by A. K. Astbury and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Nature categories.
This lecture note focuses on two railway maps of Britain. It details the important railway lines and six regions into which British Railways have been divided – the Eastern, London Midland, North Eastern, Scottish, Southern and Western Regions. The note also discusses the four companies which existed before the railways were nationalized – the London Midland and Scottish, the London and North Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern Railways.
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930
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Author : Matthew D. Esposito
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-29
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930 written by Matthew D. Esposito and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-29 with History categories.
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.
Railways In Britain And The United States 1830 1940
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Author : Geoffrey Channon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Railways In Britain And The United States 1830 1940 written by Geoffrey Channon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with categories.
This title was first published in 2001. This approach is that of a business and economic historian who is interested in issues of organization, management and corporate strategy, as well as in the men who ran these giant enterprises and the workers they employed. The book is presented as a series of case studies and focussed essays. It is concerned with many of the broader perspectives and issues of business history such as the "Chandler thesis"; the debate about ownerhsip, management and control in large enterprises; the social origins and careers of business leaders; the relationship between big businesses and government; the nature of technological change; and the rhetoric and reality of corporate culture. The British and American experiences are compared and contrasted. The book draws on diverse archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, and is a distinctive and valuable contribution to railway and business history.
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930
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Author : Matthew D. Esposito
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-29
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930 written by Matthew D. Esposito and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with categories.
This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, the second volume spans the British Empire.
British Railway Enthusiasm
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Author : Ian Carter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-10
British Railway Enthusiasm written by Ian Carter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with History categories.
The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm's life world - from railway modelling to Britain's huge preserved railway industry.
Full Steam Ahead How The Railways Made Britain
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Author : Peter Ginn
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Full Steam Ahead How The Railways Made Britain written by Peter Ginn and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with Transportation categories.
The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.
The Impact Of The Railway On Society In Britain
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Author : A. K. B. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Impact Of The Railway On Society In Britain written by A. K. B. Evans and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other single scholar, is responsible for the advancement of the academic study of transport history. As well as being a co-founder of the Journal of Transport History, he wrote extensively on a variety of transport-related topics and was instrumental in developing the London Transport and the National Railway museums. Whilst his death in September 2000 at the age of 85 was a sad loss to the world of transport history, the achievements of his life, celebrated in this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of scholars in many fields. Concentrating on the theme of the railways, and how they dramatically affected the development of Britain and her society, this collection touches on numerous issues first highlighted by Professor Simmons which are now central to academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyday issues as tourism, the arts, and politics, as well as the lasting legacy of the railways in a country now dominated by the private car. This volume written by former friends, students and colleagues of Professor Simmons reflects these interests, and provides a fitting tribute to one of the truly great British historians of the twentieth century.
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930
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Author : Matthew D. Esposito
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-29
A World History Of Railway Cultures 1830 1930 written by Matthew D. Esposito and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with categories.
This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this first volume covers the United Kingdom.
The Railways
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Author : Simon Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2015-09-24
The Railways written by Simon Bradley and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Transportation categories.
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.