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🌍 Contested Skies: Rethinking Aviation and State Power 🌐

Discover how Global South nations claimed the skies in our new intro by Marie Huber & Waqar H. Zaidi:
Read now here: www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...

#AviationHistory #GlobalSouth #TransportHistory #Decolonization #JTH
January 12, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Paris CPA the Omnibus means of transport has 3 horses (general Co) (motor vehicle Menilmontant Gare Montparnasse

www.cpaphil.com/en/p...

#vintagepostcard #historictransport #omnibus #earlycars #horsedrawncarriage #paris #garemontparnasse #menilmontant #transporthistory

December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
THIS WEEK!

The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.

Still time to register to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below!

#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)
NEW SEMINAR! 'The Station Master’s Railway: Self-Representation & the Moral Life of Infrastructure' Nirali Joshi (Åbo Akademi University) 20 November 2025, 17.30 UK; hybrid Part of the…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#ICYMI

The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.

Free to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below to register!

#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)
NEW SEMINAR! 'The Station Master’s Railway: Self-Representation & the Moral Life of Infrastructure' Nirali Joshi (Åbo Akademi University) 20 November 2025, 17.30 UK; hybrid Part of the…
bsky.app
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This looks like a great resource for anyone with Irish #TransportHistory interests!

A brilliant archive catalogue for CIÉ, covering the 1830s-1970s, railways & more, with more being added.

Well worth exploring!

#Ireland #RailwayHistory
Archive Catalogue
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November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ancient Roman Roads Mapped in Detail from Great Britain to North Africa #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #AncientRoads #TransportHistory #RomanEmpire
Ancient Roman Roads Mapped in Detail from Great Britain to North Africa
New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles
purescience.news
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
As the annual T2M conference starts in Eindhoven, the Journal of Transport History has made its #Railway200 virtual collection freely available.

17 key articles for #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #RailwayHistory, free, until 10 November:

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November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just 2 days to go on this - time to get reading!

#Railway200 #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory

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Dear Followers,

‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️

Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
October 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Industrial history, #MilitaryHistory, Medical History, #LocalHistory (including Local History Day on Saturday October 18th), #TransportHistory and more, at the inaugural #Dudley History Festival...
Dudley History Festival 11th to 31st October/ More details of talks and other events at www.better.org.uk/library/dudl...
October 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The @jtransporthist.bsky.social #Railway200 collection is open access until 15 October, so there's still time left to read this great articles - free!

#RailwayHistory #MobilityHistory #TransportHistory

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Dear Followers,

‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️

Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Dear Followers,

‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️

Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
October 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨 DEADLINE - TOMORROW! 🚨

The 2025 John Scholes Prize

For the best paper based on original research into any aspect of #TransportHistory or #MobilityHistory.

Serious prizes & kudos await - yours for the taking!

More here:

journals.sagepub.com/page/jth/joh...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO! 🚨

The 2025 John Scholes Prize

For the best paper based on original research into any aspect of #TransportHistory or #MobilityHistory.

Serious prizes & kudos await - yours for the taking!

Deadline 30 September 2025 - more here:
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Happy 150th birthday Heaton Train Sheds! Thanks to Northern Trains for organising a nosy around the traincare centre. Was great to see various generations of ECML HSTs on display!
#railway200 #heaton #newcastle #railway #northern #transporthistory #gresley #deltic #hst #highspeedtrain #highspeedrail
September 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨 CLOSING SOON! 🚨

The 2025 John Scholes Prize!

For the best paper based on original research into any aspect of #TransportHistory or #MobilityHistory.

Serious prizes & kudos await - yours for the taking!

Deadline 30 September 2025 - more here:

journals.sagepub.com/page/jth/joh...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
September 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Interesting little #TransportHistory piece, bringing together #RailwayHistory with other modes, including the role of road transport competition in ending rail services!

#Railway200

Why the Channel Islands abandoned rail travel - BBC News share.google/APH4XHMd7uvw...
Why the Channel Islands abandoned rail travel
Jersey and Guernsey have not had passenger trams or trains since the 1930s.
share.google
September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Of interest to historians of transport and mobility!

#TransportHistory #MobilityHistory

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'Shipping containers move through the port, but also across scales that are material, social and symbolic.'

Hege Høyer Leivestad explores the importances of containerization for globalization.

www.historyworkshop....
Capitalism Compressed
Hege Høyer Leivestad explores the ultimate itinerant object in histories of global capitalism: the shipping container.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Done well on #TransportHistory content in my undergrad dissertations this year - also had this one! 😀👏

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Really enjoying reading an undergraduate dissertation with @rwldproject.bsky.social that looks at how German ocean liners played a critical role in projecting national prestige and economic power. Such a fascinating subject!
June 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And from 1 mode of #TransportHistory to another - now off on hols!

Expect a bit less railway and a bit more canal for a week!
May 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM
TODAY!

Still time to sign up - just!

@ihr.bsky.social #Railway200 #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory

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Railway archives - Hidden gems & well-known treasures!

A free talk in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History series: 1 May

@jessamycarlson.bsky.social (The National Archives), Alison Kay (National Railway Museum) & Tamara Thornhill (TfL)

#Railway200

www.history.ac.uk/events/railw...
May 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🚨John Scholes Prize 2025! 🚨

For the best original #TransportHistory/ #MobilityHistory paper by new researchers - from @jtransporthist.bsky.social

Prize:
* £150 @journals.sagepub.com vouchers
* 1 year’s membership of the T2M Association
* €250 cash

More 👇

journals.sagepub.com/page/jth/joh...
April 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM