IRS RESEARCH WORKSHOPS 1999-2000
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RAILWAY LABOUR
Wednesday 3 November 1999, 2pm
Simon Cordery (Monmouth College, Illinois): 'Rethinking railway labour
relations: paternalism, mutualism, and the railway friendly societies,
1838-1870'
Birgitta Edelman (University of Stockholm): 'The Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and the Swedish Enginemen's Society'
RAILWAYS AND THE URBAN CONTEXT
Wednesday 1 December 1999, 2pm
Di Drummond (Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds): 'Creating and
sustaining communities: the impact of railways on England's railway
towns 1826-1991'
Ralph Harrington (Institute of Railway Studies, York): 'The railway and
the re-imagined city: railways and the urban environment in
nineteenth-century Britain and France'
NETWORKS
Wednesday 9 February 2000, 2pm
Robin Whittacker (University of Westminster): 'A. M. Wellington and the
development of the idea of network effects'
Nathalie Mitev (London School of Economics): 'The globalisationn of
transport? Computerised reservation systems at American Airlines and
French Railways'
TECHNICAL CHANGE
Wednesday 1 March 2000, 2pm
Colin Divall (Institute of Railway Studies, York): 'Learning from
America? Rhetoric, corporate decision making, and the dieselisation of
Britain's railways, c.1931-1954'
Michael Bailey (Institute of Railway Studies, York): 'Losing the
initiative - strategic decision-making in mid-nineteenth-century
locomotive development'
TRANSPORT MUSEUMS
Wednesday 10 May 2000, 2pm
Kirsten Holmes* (University of Leeds): 'Visitors and volunteers in
railway preservation museums'
Robert Hicks (University of Exeter): 'Defining history in maritime
museums'
* To be confirmed.
INLAND WATERWAYS
Wednesday 17 May 2000, 2pm
Joseph Boughey (Liverpool John Moores University): 'New perspectives on
waterways history'
Gerald Crompton (University of Kent at Canterbury): 'International
comparisons in waterways history'
LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE
Wednesday 16 June 2000, 2pm
Tony Heywood (University of Bradford): 'Iu. V. Lomonosov and the science
of locomotive testing'
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All IRS Research Workshops are held in the Walker Suite at the National
Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York. The NRM is 10 minutes walk from York
station. Please use the Car Park Entrance to the NRM (farthest away from
the city centre) and tell the staff at the desk that you are attending
the IRS workshop to gain free admission. NRM car park charges apply,
except for registered disabled drivers who can use free parking by the
City Entrance to the Museum. The Walker Suite is fully accessible for
people with disabilities.
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Institute of Railway Studies, National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York
YO26 4XJ
Institute of Railway Studies, Department of History, University of York,
Heslington, York YO10 5DD
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs/
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Colin Divall
Ralph Harrington
Institute of Railway Studies
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