Working Lives on the Railway: British Railway History Course

Description

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

• Discuss the range of activities involved in working on the railways in the long nineteenth century, and how these changed during the period covered by the course.

• Assess representations of working lives on the railways and railway artefacts and discuss how they relate to wider questions of class, gender, and professional identity.

• Explore written and oral material on workers’ lives within the appropriate historical and material contexts.

• Perform searches in the online resources of the National Railway Museum and other archives for material relevant to railway history and workers’ lives.