Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain
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- ISBN 9780754609490
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
A. K. B. Evans and J.V. Gough Contributors: Alan Everitt, J. Mordaunt Crook, Dame Margaret Weston, Michael Robbins, Marilyn Palmer, Peter Neaverson, David Turnock, Michael Harris, John Gough, P. L. Cottrell, R. C. Richardson, Gordon Biddle, J. Mordaunt Crook, Roger Craik, Norman Scarfe, Gwyn Briwnant-Jones, Alan A. Jackson, Alastair A. Durie, Roy Millward, G. H. Martin, Dieter Hopkin, Colin Divall, Andrew Scott, George Ottley, Diana Dixon, Robert Peberdy.
