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2024
Research report
Research and Public History Annual Report 2022–2023
The Science Museum Group supports a thriving programme of research which aims to promote new ways of understanding our collections, audiences and exhibitions. Each academic year a research report is published capturing that research year’s activity. This Research and Public History Annual Report covers the academic year 2022–2023. -
2023
Journal article
How Britain’s railways prepared for nuclear war
As a nationalised industry during the Cold War, Britain’s railways were required to undertake civil defence work to prepare for a future conflict. Civil engineers that engaged with civil defence work were required to understand the destructive capacity of first atomic and later hydrogen weapons as well as the threats...Slater, Lucy
nationalisation, research, and railways
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2022
Journal article
Commemorating the past, shaping the future: the jubilee and centenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
This paper examines how and why communities connected to the railways celebrated anniversaries of important moments in the industry’s history. It focuses on the jubilee (1875) and centenary (1925) anniversary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (established 1825) by railway companies, workers and local communities. While these anniversaries were...Vohra, Sophie
transport, technology, journal article, material culture, and railways
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2021
Journal article
A long engagement – railways, data and the information age
The history of the use of computer and data driven technologies by the railways is largely unknown and is very much overshadowed by a deep fascination with the steam railway. However, it was a willingness to embrace and develop these technologies that laid the foundations for the railway that we...Gwynne, Robert
transport, technology, computing, journal article, and railways
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2016
Journal article
Flying Scotsman: modernity, nostalgia and Britain’s ‘cult of the past’
Flying Scotsman is arguably the world’s most famous steam locomotive. The engine, a standard bearer of British engineering excellence and modernity in the 1920s, became, in the 1960s, a symbol of the dying age of steam. As Britain’s post war austerity and increasingly lesser role in the world gave way...McLean, Andrew
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2020
Doctoral thesis
Railways and commemoration: anniversaries, commemorative cultures and the making of railway history in Britain
Since the nineteenth century, communities connected to the railways industry have and continue to show a strong interest in their history and heritage. While historians of technology and industry are increasingly examining the wider impact of these inventions and innovations, there is room to analyse how the different facets of...Vohra, Sophie
nineteenth century, PhD, doctoral, twenty first century, research, railways, technology, thesis, and industry