online seminar

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

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 […]

Thursday 27 April, 5.30pm, Online David Schley (Hong Kong Baptist University/ University of East Anglia) Relieving Broadway: The politics of traffic in 19th-century New York city Historians usually date the origins of traffic control in the U.S. to the early twentieth century, but in nineteenth-century Manhattan, managing movement through the city streets was a major […]