History Days
A new feature we are introducing is the opportunity to attend Day lectures: a full day of four related, yet distinct, lectures from four experts. Day includes refreshments and a buffet lunch, with Question and Answer sessions.
A programme of History Days delivered by lecturers from the History and Archaeology Department from the University of Chester.
- Time Travel: Transport Through the Ages
Wednesday 11 February UC 09 01
This series of lectures explores aspects of travel and transportwithin a number of different contexts and periods. The lectures encompass both the pre-modern and the modern age and they adopt a variety of archaeological and historical perspectives in order to place the mechanics of transport and travel within their wider social and cultural contexts. The lectures range across an archaeological exploration of the links between death and transportation; the rise and fall of the revolutionary new toll road system introduced into England and Wales during the eighteenth century; the links between the advent of rail travel in the nineteenth century and an expansion in literary house visiting; and, on a much more sombre note, the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust.
- Travelling to the other world: The Archaeology of Death and Transport
Dr Howard Williams - Railways without steam locomotives: the Durability of a Transport System
Professor Peter Gaunt - Dilettantes and tourists: Literary House Visiting in the Railway Age
James Pardoe - Timetabling genocide: The German Railways and the Holocaust
Dr Tim Grady
- Travelling to the other world: The Archaeology of Death and Transport
You may also be interested in day & weekend courses from our: History Category.
See Also:
Lectures at Burton Manor
History Days at Burton Manor
Events run by the Friends of Burton Manor
Updated 5th November 2008