controversial, transport history. Such a strategy would not merely bring the discipline into line conceptually and methodologically … with what has long been going on elsewhere. By focussing on the practical limits and historical capabilities of transport …

The ways in which the public learns about the histories of transport and travel are explored. The role of displays put … on by museums and by heritage transport attractions - organisations such as steam railways, paddleboat shipping companies …

Historians have been rather unconcerned about how the provision and use of transport, both personal and collective … given to the idea that transport has a place alongside other kinds of ‘necessaries’, such as food, in defining the basic … of transport in Britain before the second world war, such as the car, motorcycle and bicycle. This paper looks a little …