Available:*
Library | Item Barcode | Call Number | Material Type | Item Category 1 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Searching... | 30000010059242 | HE3018 I46 2003 | Open Access Book | Book | Searching... |
On Order
Summary
Summary
Jack Simmons, perhaps more than any other single scholar, is responsible for the advancement of the academic study of transport history. As well as being a co-founder of the Journal of Transport History, he wrote extensively on a variety of transport-related topics and was instrumental in developing the London Transport and the National Railway museums. Whilst his death in September 2000 at the age of 85 was a sad loss to the world of transport history, the achievements of his life, celebrated in this festschrift, remain a lasting legacy to succeeding generations of scholars in many fields. Concentrating on the theme of the railways, and how they dramatically affected the development of Britain and her society, this collection touches on numerous issues first highlighted by Professor Simmons which are now central to academic study. These include the men who built the railways, those who financed the enterprise, how the railways affected such everyday issues as tourism, the arts, and politics, as well as the lasting legacy of the railways in a country now dominated by the private car. This volume written by former friends, students and colleagues of Professor Simmons reflects these interests, and provides a fitting tribute to one of the truly great British historians of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
| ForewordDerek H. Aldcroft |
| Editor's preface |
| Three tributesAlan Everitt and J. Mordaunt Crook and Dame Margaret Weston |
| Jack Simmons: the making of an historianMichael Robbins |
| The Railway |
| Origins and Working |
| Pre-locomotive railways of Leicestershire and South DerbyshireMarilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson |
| The transport geography of the Wigan coalfield: the canal and railway contributionsDavid Turnock |
| Rolling stock, the railway user, and competitionMichael Harris |
| A note on Midland Railway operating documentsJohn Gough |
| Financing the Bagdadbahn |
| Barings, the City, and the Foreign Office 1902-3P.L. Cottrell |
| Spirit, Mind and Eye |
| The 'broad gauge' and the 'narrow gauge': railways and religion in Victorian EnglandR.C. Richardson |
| Railways, their builders, and the environmentGordon Biddle |
| Ruskin and the railwayJ. Mordaunt Crook |
| Philip Larkin's railwaysRoger Craik |
| 'Beware of the Trains': reflections and a few footnotes on the railways of SuffolkNorman Scarfe |
| The train in the landscape |
| Dovey junction c. 1932Gwyn Briwnant-Jones |
| The Opening Up of Britain |
| The London railway suburb 1840-1914Alan A. Jackson |
| The railway and English rural tradition 1840-1940Alan Everitt |
| Tourism and the railways in Scotland: the Victorian and Edwardian experienceAlastair J. Durie |
| Railways and the evolution of Welsh holiday resortsRoy Millward |
| Sir George Samuel Measom (1818-1901) and his railway guidesG.H. Martin |
| Heritage and History |
| The North Eastern Railway Museum, York, - '...the germ of a truly national railway museum' |
| YorkDieter Hopkin |
| Transport museums and the public appreciation of the pastColin Divall and Andrew Scott |
| Writing the history of British railwaysTerry Gourvish |
| 'Bibbling' the railwaysGeorge Ottley |
| Appendix |
| Jack Simmons: a bibliography of his published writingsDiana Dixon and Robert Peberdy |
| List of sponsors |
| Index |
