目次

Introduction (David Turner) Part One: Methodologies 1.The Trajectories of Railway Kinship Families in Victorian York (Philip Batman) 2. Sensory ethnography and film interpretation: sociological readings of historical archives (Peter Cox) 3. Horse-drawn transport and the urban built environment 1820-1920 (Megan Doole) 4, Digital disasters: Crowdsourcing the railway accident (Mike Esbester) Part Two: Cultures of Transport 5. Maintaining the Connections: A Social and Cultural History of the Permanent Way (Oliver Betts) 6. Buses and Popular Culture (Martin Higginson) 7. Canals in Nineteenth-century Literary History (Jodie Matthews) Part Three: Policy and Practice 8. Supersonic/gin & tonic: Concorde and the slow death of supersonic travel, 1950-2000 (Peter Lyth) 9. Observing ‘Saint Monday’: a geographical comparison of railway tripping opportunities for mid-19th century workers (Susan Major ) 10. The vulnerability paradox: the illusion of permanence in the UK public transport industry (Kevin Tennent) 11. Re-thinking the business of transport history: beer by rail and road before 1914 (David Turner) Conclusion (David Turner)