Transport and Its Place in History

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.

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• “Making the Connections” – IntroductionPart I: Policy and Practice1. ‘Supersonic/gin & tonic: The rise and fall of Concorde, 1950-2000’2. Observing 'Saint Monday': variations in the potential for leisure mobility for workers in the north of England in the mid-19th century3. The vulnerability paradox: the illusion of permanence in the UK public transport industry4. Barrels rolling free: modal shift in the British brewing industry, 1897-1914Part II: Cultures of Transport5. Maintaining the Connections: A Social and Cultural History of the Permanent Way6. “Being poor is going to the Ritz on the bus”: The portrayal of buses and trams in popular culture7. Canals in Nineteenth-century Literary HistoryPart III: Methodologies8. “The Trajectories of Railway Kinship Families in Victorian York”9. Sensory ethnography and film interpretation: sociological readings of historical archives10. Identification of the urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century horse transport: a case study of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK11. Digital disasters: Crowdsourcing the railway accident