Going Places? Visitors, Enthusiasts and the Public History of Transport

Colin Divall ()

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Abstract: 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, vintage bus and tram operators, and so on, which operate obsolete vehicles for the public's benefit are explained. [Lecture delivered by Colin Divall at the National Railway Museum as his inaugural address as Professor of Railway Studies in the University of York].

Keywords: Asia; Australia; North America; India; Indian sub-continent; organisation; transport; shipping companies; railways; museum; history; heritage; vehicles; public benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-10
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