'Writing the history of British railways' in A K B Evans & J V Gough (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain. Essays in honour of Jack Simmons
Details:
- Author(s) Gourvish, Terry
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2003
- Pages pp269-78
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Historiography & methodology
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
The writer was the official historian of British Rail. Here refers to that project but, more so, uses the experience 'to explore some of the salient features affecting the railways over the last 40 years, and in so doing to reflect both upon the national picture and the implications for local rail operations and local communities of rail users'