The next Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar takes place online on 9 June - all are welcome, but you'll need to register in advance. Thursday 9 June, 17.30 UTC+1, online 'Trams and Dusty Trees': Literary Modernism and London's Electric Tramways, 1901-1927 Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) One of […]
Please join us for our next Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar: Thursday 10 November, 5.30pm, GMT Zoom "Our petticoats up above our knees": Pedestrian Adventures in 19th-century Diaries Trish Bredar (Northwestern University) While studies of nineteenth-century mobility often center on new technologies and infrastructural developments, this paper seeks to expand […]
Thursday 15 December, 5.30pm GMT Murray Seccombe (University of Lancaster) ‘To whom it doth belong’: highways, law and governance in the parish of Halifax, c.1550-1700 Online and in person (Room N301, IHR, Senate House, London) Ever since the Webbs, Tudor highway legislation has been perceived as foreshadowing the use of the parish for implementing statutory […]
Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey) This paper offers an exploration into reading transport and mobility histories through the lens of the skin. Amid wider critical attention to embodied experiences of travel, the outermost surface of the body holds much potential as a site of visual, tactile, and sensory encounter with transport spaces. In this talk, […]
31 March 2023, 2-4pm (Paris time) Online (on Zoom) Session co-organised by the French Association Passé Présent Mobilité and the Vendredis Mobilité. It will be organised around a presentation of the book Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries by the authors, followed by a discussion with Natalia Kotelnikova-Weiler based on her work on the autonomous […]
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 […]
