Transport and Its Place in History: Making the Connections - Paperback

by David Turner (Editor)

Containing contributions exploring transport and mobility history after 1800, this volume of eclectic chapters shows how new subjects are explored, new sources are being encountered, considered and used, and how increasingly diverse and innovative methodological lenses are applied to both new and well-travelled subjects.

Author Biography

David Turner is Associate Lecturer in Railway Studies at the University of York, and teaches at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and The York Management School's Masters in Railway Studies. He completed his PhD with the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History, York, in 2013 and was awarded in 2016 the Business Archives Council's Bursary for Business History Research. He is also a book review editor for the Journal of Transport History and a co-convener of the Institute of Historical Research's Transport and Mobility History Seminar.