This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Matthew Phillpott, SAS-Space Manager and SAS Digital Project Officer. For those of you who have been using the Institute of Historical Research’s online research training platform, History SPOT you will have noticed a...
History Spot has been a much-used and well-liked tool in the two-and-a-half years of its existence and has provided access to training materials and hundreds of podcasts and seminars to thousands of researchers throughout the UK and the world. Now, though, it has...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201317 January 2013Oliver GreenPick’s posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground Abstract: In the early decades of the 20th century the London Underground was transformed from being simply a...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201317 January 2013Marko JobstMovement, Vision, Underground Abstract: This paper looks at the history of vision in architectural modernity and its failed acknowledgement of the London Underground. While there have...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201317 January 2013Richard HornseyTraining Up the Escalated Body Abstract: During the 1920s and 30s, as the Underground network expanded outwards and passenger numbers increased, Tube stations were designed (or...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201317 January 2013Tom Herron Notes from the Underground: Seamus Heaney’s ‘District and Circle’ Abstract: When we think of Seamus Heaney we tend to turn to the landscapes of his native Co. Derry, to the...
