week 9: Transport – lecture handout / figures [pdf]
Listen
BBC (2018), George and Robert Stephenson, In our Time, BBC Radio 4, April 12th
Watch
* OSF Productions (2002), Industrial Revelations – S01 E08 – Iron Horse, Discovery Networks Europe [and, in fact, you should probably watch every episode…]
BBC (2015), Canals: The making of a nation – ep 3: Capitalism
Not currently available, unfortunately, but there is an interactive video that condenses elements from the series
BBC (2016), Railways: the making of a nation
Similarly also unavailable currently, but there a few clips from the series and ep 5 (Capitalism and commerce) has been uploaded to youtube
Primary reading
Allen, RC (2009), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge: CUP [chapter 7]
* Bogart, D (2014), The transport revolution in industrialising Britain, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 1 1700-1870, Cambridge: CUP (pp368-391) – an author’s version is available here [pdf]
Hill, CP (1985), British Economic and Social History (5th ed), London: Edward Arnold [chapter 10]
Hobsbawm, EJ (1985), Industry and Empire, London: Pelican Books [chapter 6]
Satchell, M (2017), Navigable waterways and the economy of England and Wales:1600-1835 in Shaw-Taylor, L et al (eds), The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
* Shaw-Taylor, L and You, X (2018), The development of the railway network in Britain 1825-1911 in Shaw-Taylor, L et al (eds), The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Background material
Atterbury, P (2014a), Steam & Speed: The Power of Steam on Land, V&A Museum
Atterbury, P (2014b), Steam & Speed: Other Forms of Victorian Transport & Communication, V&A Museum
Bogart, D (2017), The Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, in Shaw-Taylor, L et al (eds), The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (2012), Railways, Department of Geography and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Sept 3rd
Leicester Industrial History Society
Martin, A (2015), End of the line: Leicester’s forgotten railway stations, Leicester Mercury, May 24th
National Archives (2012), Railways
Robinson, B (2011), All Change in the Victorian Age, BBC History, 17th Feb
Standage, T (1999), The Victorian Internet, London: Phoenix
Swannington Heritage Trust (2019), Leicester & Swannington Railway
Wikipedia entries for Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, George Hudson, Leicester Corporation tramways, Leicester-Swannington railway (see also Grace’s Guide entry)