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Institute of Railway Studies seminar 20 May …

The Institute of Railway Studies, a partnership between the National Railway Museum and the University of York, is pleased to announce the re-start of its seminar series.

The first seminar will be held at the National Railway Museum, in the Duchess of Hamilton suite at 2.00-4.00pm on Wednesday 20 May 2015. The event is free, but ticketed. To get your ticket please click here or visit: http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVisit/Events/IRS-seminar.aspx

Our speakers are three of our current PhD students:

Hannah Reeves, “Women and the railway family, 1900 – 1948”
Thomas Spain, “’Food Miles’: Food Transport Distribution in Britain, 1920-1975”
Alison Rees, “Home on the rails: the Design, Fitting and Decoration of Train Interiors in Britain, c.1920-1955”

There will be opportunity for discussion and questions at the end of each 20 minute paper. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information on the IRS, please visit the website: http://www.york.ac.uk/railway-studies/

For information on how to get to the museum, please click here. Any questions or queries regarding the event, please email: search.engine@nrm.org.uk

Kind regards

Karen Baker
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Knowledge and Collections

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Business Histories of UK Tramways, York 5th February

Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York

Research Workshop

13.30-16.45, Wednesday 5th February 2014
BUSINESS HISTORIES OF UK TRAMWAYS

Ian Souter
‘The British electric tram: basket case or barometer?’

Kevin Tennent (York Management School)
‘Management and competitive advantage in the public transport industry: York Corporation tramways, ca 1909-1934’

All welcome. Refreshments served. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER STARTING TIME. This is to accommodate the NRM’s earlier closing time in the low season.
The workshop is scheduled to take place in the Edmondson Room, Search Engine at the National Railway Museum. However we are expecting an even larger than usual attendance and might have to move to the Flying Scotsman (formerly Gibb) lecture theatre.

The NRM is about three minutes’ walk from the railway station, using the footbridge. Please use either the City or Car Park entrances and tell the staff at the welcome desk that you are attending the workshop.

Please note that NRM car-parking charges apply. Free disabled parking is available near the public entrances.

This workshop is financed by the National Railway Museum.

Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York

“You will have received notification of the programmes of IRS&TH workshops for the Spring term. These workshops have been funded for many years by the National Railway Museum. However, owing to sharp reductions in government grant-in-aid, the NRM is expected to withdraw all funding from the Institute early in 2014.

“The workshop programme will therefore be suspended indefinitely after March 2014. Colin Divall.”

Unfortunately these look like being the last Research Workshops for a while at least. R&RTHA member Ian Souter, speaking on 5 February, gave a spirited and well-received talk to the R&RTHA in Coventry last year.

13.30-16.45 Wednesday 5th February 2014
BUSINESS HISTORIES OF UK TRAMWAYS

Ian Souter
‘The British electric tram: basket case or barometer?’

Kevin Tennent (York Management School)
‘Management and competitive advantage in the public transport industry: York Corporation tramways, ca 1909-1934’

13.30-16.45 Wednesday 5th March 2014
(IM)MOBILE POPULATIONS IN C19th BRITAIN

Mark Casson (University of Reading)
‘Railways and population growth: a case study of Birmingham and the West Midlands’

Colin Pooley (Lancaster University)
‘”Mrs H came home from Norwich… her pocket picked at the station and all her money stolen”: using life writing to recover the experience of travel in the past’

All welcome. Refreshments served.

The workshops will take place in the Edmondson Room, Search Engine at the National Railway Museum. The NRM is about three minutes’ walk from the railway station, using the footbridge. Please use either the City or Car Park entrances and tell the staff at the welcome desk that you are attending the workshop.

Please note that NRM car-parking charges apply. Free disabled parking is available near the public entrances.

These workshops are financed by the National Railway Museum.