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A familiar source of air pollution: steam trains and the smoke abatement movement in Britain (1910s-1960s)

SeminarSeriesTransport & Mobility HistoryAddressHybrid | Online via Zoom & IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HUSpeakersArthur Émile (Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))Event dates 21 November 2024, 5:30PM - 7:00PM https://www.history.ac.uk/events/a-familiar-source-air-pollution-steam-trains-and-smoke-abatement-movement-britain-1910s Add to calendar Contactihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures

Dear Colleagues, To celebrate the publication of our special issue "Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures" in English Studies in Africa ( https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reia20/67/2?nav=tocList ),  we are organising an online launch. We are delighted to have Prof. Bradley Rink (University of the Western Cape) as our invited speaker. Two of our contributors, Mapule Mohulatsi and Ye […]

The 2024 Global Mobility Humanities Conference

  Aspiration has recently entered the lexicon of various branches of mobilities studies. At the individual scale, scholars have examined the ways in which the term has become an important subjective frame for (especially young) migrants to understand their personal mobility projects (Robertson et al., 2018; Paul, 2019). At a broad societal level, others have […]