The London Underground 1968 1985

Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399055673

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The London Underground, 1968-1985 by Jim Blake Pdf

LONDON’S HISTORIC, iconic Underground railway system in the period from 1968 to 1985 was a very different place to what it is in the 2020s. Much of its rolling stock dated from before World War Two, and with the exception of the new Victoria Line and the isolated Woodford to Hainault shuttle, trains were all two-person operated as the 1970s dawned. Transport photographer Jim Blake recorded most of the system on film before it would change forever, concentrating on the older rolling stock as well as other items of interest due for replacement or modernisation, during this period when, regrettably, London Transport was often starved of much-needed funds by central government. The eminently sensible transfer of overall control of London’s buses and Underground system to the city-wide Greater London Council at the beginning of 1970 was snatched away by the Thatcher regime in 1984, after which things rapidly went downhill. This book covers the years of GLC control, including the months prior to their taking charge in order to set the scene. Many rare and unusual scenes are included in this volume, especially of the then still basically intact portion of the uncompleted Northern Line extension between Drayton Park and Highgate, which had been so close to completion when work was halted during the war, but then abandoned in the early 1950s, incurring much wasted work and expenditure. For anyone with a serious interest in London’s Underground, this book is essential reading, including as it does many pervious unpublished photographs.

Author : Davis Michael T. Saler Associate Professor of History University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198028123

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The Avant-Garde in Interwar England : Medieval Modernism and the London Underground by Davis Michael T. Saler Associate Professor of History University of California Pdf

The Avant-Garde in Interwar England addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. During this period, a debate raged across the nation concerning the purpose of art in society. On one side were the aesthetic formalists, led by members of London's Bloomsbury Group, who thought art was autonomous from everyday life. On the other were England's so-called medieval modernists, many of them from the provincial North, who maintained that art had direct social functions and moral consequences. As Michael T. Saler demonstrates in this fascinating volume, the heated exchange between these two camps would ultimately set the terms for how modern art was perceived by the British public. Histories of English modernism have usually emphasized the seminal role played by the Bloomsbury Group in introducing, celebrating, and defining modernism, but Saler's study instead argues that, during the watershed years between the World Wars, modern art was most often understood in the terms laid out by the medieval modernists. As the name implies, these artists and intellectuals closely associated modernism with the art of the Middle Ages, building on the ideas of John Ruskin, William Morris, and other nineteenth-century romantic medievalists. In their view, modernism was a spiritual, national, and economic movement, a new and different artistic sensibility that was destined to revitalize England's culture as well as its commercial exports when applied to advertising and industrial design. This book, then, concerns the busy intersection of art, trade, and national identity in the early decades of twentieth-century England. Specifically, it explores the life and work of Frank Pick, managing director of the London Underground, whose famous patronage of modern artists, architects, and designers was guided by a desire to unite nineteenth-century arts and crafts with twentieth-century industry and mass culture. As one of the foremost adherents of medieval modernism, Pick converted London's primary public transportation system into the culminating project of the arts and crafts movement. But how should today's readers regard Pick's achievement? What can we say of the legacy of this visionary patron who sought to transform the whole of sprawling London into a post-impressionist work of art? And was medieval modernism itself a movement of pioneers or dreamers? In its bold engagement with such questions, The Avant-Garde in Interwar England will surely appeal to students of modernism, twentieth-century art, the cultural history of England, and urban history.

Author : Iain Docherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429834646

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Making Tracks by Iain Docherty Pdf

First published in 1999, this book contains case studies of rail transport policy-making in two UK Passenger Transport Authority areas and reviews the factors informing such policy-making. It contributes to transport geography by explaining why the actual policies implemented in Starthclyde and Merseyside were pursued, and to the continuing development of the political science theory of ‘the urban policy regime’ by analysing the differences in policy development attributable to the different ‘city-regional’ (Strathclyde) and ‘public choice’ (Merseyside) geographical structures of local governance. The book demonstrates that these differences in the spatial organisation of local institutions play a powerful role in determining the operation of the local ‘regime’ of policy-makers, the form of final policy outputs, and the level of public accountability achieved.

Author : Dave Welsh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846312236

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Underground Writing by Dave Welsh Pdf

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground/ Tube was "mapped" by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of the World War II, "underground writing" created an imaginative world beneath the streets ofLondon. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking- glass or as place of safety and security. The book is a chronological study from the opening of the first underground in the 1860s to its role in WW2. Each chapter explores perspectives on the underground in a number of writers, starting with George Gissing in the 1880s, moving through the work of H. G. Wells and into the writing of the1920s and 1930s including Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. It concludes with its portrayal in the fiction, poetry and art (including Henry Moore) of WW2. The approach takes a broadly cultural studies perspective, crossing the boundaries of transport history, literature and London/urban studies. It draws mainly on fiction but also uses poetry, art, journals, postcards and posters to illustrate. It links the actual underground trains, tracks andstations to the metaphorical world of "underground writing" and places the writing in a social/political context.

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781909396166

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London Underground's Strangest Tales by Iain Spragg Pdf

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London's Underground, or as it is affectionately referred to, the Tube. Though this isn’t the usual side of the Tube the tourists, travellers and residents see. (Though, of course, they do see a great deal of strangeness in their daily commutes!). This is the real Underground, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of what happens hundreds of metres below millions of London legs – from its peculiar past through to its paranormal present and looking forward to its fascinating future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to London's globally envied, and much loved, public transport system. Located deep beneath the heart of Greater London, the Underground is awash with more strangeness than you can shake your pre-paid Oyster card at. In 2013 the whole city will be celebrating the Underground's 150th birthday – the oldest underground in the world. So, pack up your old kit bag and travel stop-by-stop with us on this strange and fantastic journey along the Northern, Picadilly, Metropolitan, Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District Line ... and explore the Underground as you've never seen it before. London Underground's Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the humorous, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to the Underground's best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned. Word Count: 35,000

Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462363

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The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long Pdf

Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child's garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone's brother's ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.

Author : Lynne Segal
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781687574

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Straight Sex by Lynne Segal Pdf

Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? This is the central question of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal’s account of twentyfive years of feminist thinking on sexuality. Covering the thought of sixties-era sexual liberationists, alongside the ensuing passionate debates over sex and love within feminist and lesbian communities, Segal covers certain shifts toward greater sexual conservatism in the eighties. Straight Sex examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.

Author : Inga Kroener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317169093

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CCTV by Inga Kroener Pdf

Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of the twenty-first century, the UK was one of the most surveilled societies on earth. This groundbreaking volume by Inga Kroener analyses the particular combination of factors that have created this surveillance state. Kroener argues against the inevitability of the rise of CCTV that is so often found in this literature, to map out the early history of CCTV, tracing its development from a tool for education, safety and transport during the 1950s, to one of politics in the 1970s and 1980s, to eventually become a tool of surveillance during the 1990s. Within this analysis, the complex role of the public in 'allowing' the widespread and rapid dissemination of CCTV is discussed and the representation of CCTV in the media is also studied. This volume will be of interest to all scholars working in the fields of surveillance studies; science, technology and society departments; and social historians more generally.

Author : Andrew Thacker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719053099

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Moving Through Modernity by Andrew Thacker Pdf

The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.

Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134863419

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Textual Practice by Terence Hawkes Pdf

Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory. `You cannot ignore Textual Practice. Its international cast of contributors, well-known and new, engages today's theoretical and practical debates from the roots of modernity into post-modernism, from the politics of sexual preference, to the future of the Left, from literature to activism, with the lines crossing and recrossing.' - Gayatri Spivak, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Author : Stephen Halliday
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495514

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Underground to Everywhere by Stephen Halliday Pdf

London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners.Stephen Halliday’s informative, entertaining, wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian Pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system. His book records the scandal, disappointments, and disasters that have punctuated the story and the careers of the gifted, dedicated, sometimes corrupt individuals that have shaped its history.It also gives a fascinating insight into the neglected, often unseen aspects of this subterranean system - the dense network of tunnels, shafts and chambers that have been created beneath the city streets.

Author : London Regional Transport (Agency)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UCBK:C101813135

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Report and Accounts by London Regional Transport (Agency) Pdf

Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780711289055

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London's Underground, Revised Edition by Oliver Green Pdf

Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.

Author : London Regional Transport (Agency)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015047820702

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Annual Report by London Regional Transport (Agency) Pdf

Author : Russ Haywood
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754673928

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Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain by Russ Haywood Pdf

This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94.