Transport History

Een divertissant somertogje. Transport innovations and the rise of short-term pleasure trips in the Low Countries (1600-1750)

by Gerrit Verhoeven

‘Men, Motors, Markets and Women’

by Grace Lees-Maffei

In Autopia, ed. Peter Wöllen and Joe Kerr, 363-370 (London: Reaktion, 2002). Reproduced with permission in Carl's Cars 16 (Summer 2006): 112-114.

'See 500 sexy models reveal all.' This Motor Show slogan provides a graphic reminder of the traditional role of women... more 'See 500 sexy models reveal all.' This Motor Show slogan provides a graphic reminder of the traditional role of women in car culture – as adjuncts rather than drivers. Stephen Bayley’s 1986 essay Sex, Drink and Fast Cars typifies 'man's relationship' with his car as being all about power, as articulated by designers, stylists, advertising creatives and marketing professionals. For Bayley, a woman in a powerful car is 'at once titillating and de-masculating' and represents 'an overt sexual statement'.  The feeling is mutual, it seems, as shown by the female journalist who admitted: ‘men who are ambivalent about driving are not attractive to me. And it’s not just me.’  The masculine dominance of car culture is sustained even though an increasing number of women drive and as increasing numbers of women work as car journalists.

La movilidad en época romana en Hispania. Aplicaciones de análisis de redes (SIG) para el estudio diacrónico de las infraestructuras de transporte

by Pau de Soto

Autores: Pau de Soto, César Carreras Monfort
Localización: Habis, ISSN 0210-7694, Nº 40, 2009 , págs. 303-324

La movilidad es uno de los factores claves a la hora de entender el grado de complementariedad y cohesión de cualquier... more La movilidad es uno de los factores claves a la hora de entender el grado de complementariedad y cohesión de cualquier Estado. Las políticas de infraestructuras de transporte modelan junto con las con las condiciones geográficas esta movilidad. Este artículo trata de analizar la movilidad en la Península Ibérica a lo largo del tiempo, desde época romana al siglo XVIII a través del uso de aplicaciones de redes de SIG (Sistemas de Información Geográfica).

Mobility is one of the key factors to understand the degree of complementarity and cohesion of any State. Policies of transport infrastructures model such mobility together with geographical conditions. This paper attempts to analyze mobility in the Iberian Peninsula over the time from Roman period to the XVIIIth century by employing network applications of GIS (Geographical Information Systems).

Decem Pagi at the end of antiquity and the fate of the Roman road system in eastern Gaul, in: Paul Bidwell (ed.), Proceedings of the XXIst International Limes (Roman Frontiers) Congress 2009 at Newcastle upon Tyne (BAR International Series), Oxford 2012 (forthcoming)

by Joachim Henning

Co-authored with Michael McCormick & Thomas Fischer

Extensive remote prospection (geomagnetic and GPR) and four trial trenches have revealed impressive new monuments... more Extensive remote prospection (geomagnetic and GPR) and four trial trenches have revealed impressive new monuments (colonnaded porticoes, Gallic-style fana) that show Tarquimpol (Moselle, France) to have been much more than the Roman highway station previously believed. It antedated the Roman conquest (ceramic, radiocarbon, coins), and now looks like the Roman administrative and religious center of the Saulnois salt-producing district in Metz’s hinterland. It was destroyed in the 2nd half of the 3rd century (terra sigillata dating). The highest point and Roman crossroads was fortified by a massive subcircular double-ditched clay rampart faced in parts with stone spolia and occupied as documented by a multi-phase dark earth layer from ca. 350 to 450, dated by Argonne sigillata finds and radiocarbon. Although the medieval parish church contained numerous Merovingian-era burials, there is so far no other sign of early medieval occupation, even as neighboring centers (Marsal, Moyenvic, Vic-sur-Seille, maybe Dieuze) sprang to life, apparently in connection with their salt production and access to water transport that Tarquimpol lacked. Future work will investigate the fate of Tarquimpol in its regional context and the light it sheds on the environmental, economic and transport infrastructure experience of a small town during and after the fall of the Roman empire.

The Carrying Trade and the First Railways in England

by Carolyn Dougherty

given at 'Portraits & Powerhouses: New Perspectives on Georgian Life', York, October 2011

World police for world peace: British internationalism and the threat of a knock-out blow from the air, 1919-1945

by Brett Holman

War in History 17 (2010), 313-32.

This paper argues that the remarkably widespread enthusiasm in Britain after 1918 for an international air force was... more This paper argues that the remarkably widespread enthusiasm in Britain after 1918 for an international air force was due to a confluence of two factors: the long-standing liberal belief that international law could prevent war, and the emergence of a new theory of warfare which claimed that the bomber was a weapon which could not be defended against. The origins of the international air force concept in the 1920s, its apogee in the 1930s, and its decline (and revival) in the Second World War are examined, showing that its fortunes rose and fell with internationalism and the knock-out blow.

The air panic of 1935: British press opinion between disarmament and rearmament

by Brett Holman

Journal of Contemporary History 46 (2011), 288-307.

The British fear of bombing in the early twentieth century has aptly been termed ‘the shadow of the bomber’. But the... more The British fear of bombing in the early twentieth century has aptly been termed ‘the shadow of the bomber’. But the processes by which the public learned about the danger of bombing are poorly understood. This paper proposes that the press was the primary source of information about the threat, and examines a formative period in the evolution of public concern about airpower — the so-called air panic of 1935 — during which German rearmament was revealed and large-scale RAF expansion undertaken in response. A proposed air pact between the Locarno powers enabled a shift from support of disarmament to rearmament by newspapers on the right, while simultaneously supporting collective security. Paradoxically, after initially supporting the air pact, the left-wing press and its readers began to have doubts, for the same reason: the need to support collective security. This episode sheds new light on Britain’s early rearmament, and how the government was able to undertake it, despite the widespread feelings in the electorate in favour of disarmament.

La movilidad en época romana en la Península Ibérica: Comparativa histórica de las infraestructuras de transporte

by Pau de Soto

De Soto, P. with Carreras, C. (in press)
Actas del IX Congreso Internacional de Caminería Hispánica (Cádiz).

2005 with B Roberts, Excavations on Ermine Street, GlaxoSmithKline, Ware. Herts Arch 14, 3–39

by Leonora O'Brien

Archaeological investigations were carried out in advance of development at GlaxoSmithKline, Ware, Hertfordshire... more Archaeological investigations were carried out in advance of development at GlaxoSmithKline, Ware, Hertfordshire between January and March 2003. The work revealed a concentration of Bronze Age struck and burnt flint underneath stratified Roman deposits. These included part of the Roman road of Ermine Street with associated silt build-up and debris. Flanking Ermine Street were Roman structural and occupational remains that comprised hearths and clay floors together with various gullies, pits and postholes and a number of inhumations of peri/neonates and infants. ‘Dark earth’ layers dating to the end of the Roman period covered these features.

2010 Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plan - MAC Area 7 (East Midlands). Technical Report.

by Leonora O'Brien

A Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plan (CHAMP) was undertaken for Highways Agency Managing Agent Contractor Area 7... more A Cultural Heritage Asset Management Plan (CHAMP) was undertaken for Highways Agency Managing Agent Contractor Area 7 (HA MAC Area 7) between July and December 2009. It assesses the condition of heritage assets within and immediately adjacent to the HA estate, and identifies those that are the responsibility of the HA and at risk of damage and/or loss of significance due to the environmental, operational
and development impacts of the MAC’s current and predicted programme.

Area 7 comprises approximately 700km of national trunk roads in the East Midlands. A total of 1189 heritage assets were identified, of which 155 were statutorily designated assets.

The report is accompanied by a CHAMP Area 7 Project Geographical Information System (GIS), designed in accordance with the Highways Agency Environmental Information System (EnvIS) and populated with a subset of data from the Highways Agency Geographical Information System (HAGIS). This GIS provides data on the 1189 assets within or adjacent to the Highways Agency estate, including links to condition survey asset visit sheets and photographs.

Water transport in the industrial age: Commodities and carriers on the Rochdale Canal, 1804-1855

by Peter Maw

Dismantling railway apartheid in South Africa, 1975-1988

by Gordon Pirie

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 8/9 (1989/90), 181–199.

'Ghostlike' Seafarers and Sailing Ship Nostalgia: The Figure of the Steamship Lascar in the British Imagination c.1880-1960

by Jonathan Hyslop

Presented at University of Southampton workshop, 2011.

"Zunftordnung" oder "erster Schritt (...) zur Koordination der beiden hauptsächlichen Verkehrsträger"? Die Autotransportordnung (ATO)

by Adrian Zimmermann

published in: Hans-Ulrich Schiedt  et al. (eds.), Verkehrsgeschichte = Histoire des transports, Zürich (Chronos-Verlag) 2010, S. 405-418

Gender, Emotion, Work and Travel: Women Transport Workers and Passengers, Past and Present, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, London, …

by Jo Stanley

Tourism and the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

by Jo Stanley

"Both Natural and Mechanical: The Streamlined Designs of Norman Bel Geddes", Journal of Transport History, Volume 30, Number 2, December 2009 , pp. 141-167(27)

by Dr. Nicolas P Maffei

Abstract:

Between the 1930s, when it first gained force as a styling fad, and the 1950s, when it had achieved widespread and long-standing popularity, streamlining developed seemingly irreconcilable cultural connotations. Depending on the circumstances, it could be understood as mechanical, natural, avant-garde or popular. This article examines the work of the pioneer American industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes, an early and significant exponent of streamlining, to argue that the style has been largely overlooked as an important modernist expression, containing within it a number of competing and contradictory meanings. While designers such as Geddes considered the aerodynamic aesthetic both functional and expressive, critics of streamlining considered it a threat to a more narrowly defined form of modernism.

The Development of the Combahee Ferry: An Ethnohistory of Ferry Transportation in the South Carolina Lowcountry

by Ed Salo

They Can Run the Boat, But Not Ride: Slavery, Segregation and Ferries

by Ed Salo

Efforts to Preserve and Interpret the Combahee Ferry

by Ed Salo