Tag: Railways AudioTracing railway ancestorsFriday 27 March 2015The National Archives holds a vast collection of railway related material, a legacy passed down by hundreds of railway companies which operated in all corners o...AudioFrom Stephenson to Suburbia: the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the ChilternsTuesday 29 October 2013Using current PhD research, Rudi Newman’s talk demonstrates that for rural Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, railways had varying degrees of im...AudioEngineering office staffTuesday 29 October 2013Focusing on some of the drawing and engineering offices, Tim Procter’s talk examines the personal marks that staff have left on the official records and shows...AudioSelling the age of the train: British Rail passenger marketing and travel in Britain in the 1960s–70sTuesday 29 October 2013By exploring a wide range of historical records, this talk aims to tell the story of how the railways changed peoples’ lives, as well as to show how peop...AudioLiving in a railway townThursday 10 October 2013Di Drummond describes the experience of living in railway towns during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly focussing on Crewe between 1840-1914. The recor...AudioThe truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963Tuesday 20 August 2013It was called the crime of the century. The Great Train Robbers planned their heist pretty much flawlessly. But getting away with it was another matter. Most...AudioAdlestrop: railways, poetry and the myths of 1914Friday 23 November 2012Adlestrop by Edward Thomas is one of the nation’s favourite poems. Written in the heat of battle by an officer who was doomed not to survive the war, Adle...AudioTime travel: a journey through the timetables of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1860-1901Monday 5 March 2012This talk takes a look beyond the day-to-day purpose of railway timetables, to consider how they reveal changes in the pace, regularity and frequency of mobilit...AudioResearching Mr Briggs’ Hat: an account of Britain’s first railway murderFriday 27 January 2012The 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs in his first-class railway carriage is investigated through documents in The National Archives, The US National Archives and Re...AudioRailways and the mobilisation for war in 1914Thursday 8 September 2011The historian AJP Taylor, considering the events of 1914, once argued: ‘The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railwa...AudioRailway disasters: an introductionFriday 13 November 2009This talk looks at some of the most famous railway accidents and disasters of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular, the disaster at Quintinshill in 1915,...VideoGod’s Wonderful Railway – British Sign Language videoFriday 14 November 2008Find out how the development of the railways transformed the landscape of Great Britain and became the agent of enormous social change. Bruno Derrick explores t... 1 2 »
