Constructing the past: Railway history from below or a study in nostalgia?

Journal of Transport History

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-158

  Strangleman, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Industrial autobiography; Railway literature; Sociology of work; Working class history

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION HISTORY;

EID: 0344420422     PISSN: 00225266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/TJTH.23.2.3     Document Type: Article

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