Transport & Mobility History starter pack
A starter for scholarly historians of transport and mobility. Focused on those producing peer-reviewed, academic work, usually within a higher education setting. Many scholars aren't (yet?) on Bluesky, so the transport & mobility history community is larger & more diverse than this list suggests.
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@rwldproject.bsky.social
@adam-dixon.bsky.social
PhD Researcher at Northumbria University Interests: Transport, Mobility, Built Environment, Tyneside, 20th Century, Oral Histories. Specialist subject: Metros, Motorways, Modernism and Municipal Ferries
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
@railwayarch.bsky.social
Dr Siobhan Osgood. Historian of 19thC railway architecture/engineering/construction. Alum Trinity College Dublin, Dept. Art and Architectural History. @irishrailarch on Instagram www.railwayarchitecture.com
@mmeiske.bsky.social
Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote #stoffgeschiche Postdoc@deutschesmuseum #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
@rachcottle.bsky.social
PhD candidate - Women on the Victorian Railways (Aus.) | railway history & heritage | women’s history | local history
@leenalindell.bsky.social
AHRC CDP PhD at the Uni of York & NRM/ Science Museum Group - Transnational networks, SNA, colonialism, railways & 1930s China. Visiting researcher at Uni of Helsinki - Nordic colonialism, Petsamo, tourism & photography. Archivist. 🇫🇮🇬🇧🚂
@emilea.bsky.social
Doctorant EPFL. Histoire de la pollution de l’air par le chemin de fer au temps de la vapeur / PhD student, history of air pollution by steam train operations in France & Great-Britain Patrimoine industriel / industrial heritage Lausanne-Paris-Leeds 🇨🇭🇫🇷🇬🇧
@cemathieson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey. Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies. Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
@vsdawson.bsky.social
Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
@drolibetts.bsky.social
National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
@sophievohra.bsky.social
PD Research Associate at Uni of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies on The Sensational Museum AHRC-funded project | Public historian, historian of memory/identity, railway historian & museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
@railwayhistorian.bsky.social
A transport historian and lecturer at Aston University and Honorary Fellow at the University of York, School for Business and Society. Views my own. He/Him davidturnerrailway@gmail.com
@shuffard.bsky.social
historian, author, train song connoisseur, and college prof posting dispatches from deep in the blue ridge mountains (Beech Mountain, NC). Currently working on a book about Casey Jones. Also into skiing, cycling, folklore, and fiddling w/the banjo
@suemajor.bsky.social
Railway historian, living in York UK. https://susanmajorhistory.wordpress.com. Working class railway excursions mid-19c Britain, inc women's leisure mobility. Women railway workers WWII. FellowRHS. Local history for www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk
@airpowerhistory.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Tweets ≠ endorsement. https://drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
@drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
@norton.bsky.social
Historian; author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
@airminded.org
Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
@rwldproject.bsky.social
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester. #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk