Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Electricity underground: the politics of a new technology in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century Session 5: Underground technologies and bodies Carlos Lopez Galviz (University of London) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Crossing oceans to cross rivers: trans-Atlantic knowledge and capital in tunnelling history Session 6: Underground comparisons and connections Tim White (New Jersey City University) Abstract: Not long after the London Underground opened, American railroad companies sought to tunnel under the Hudson River, so they could connect their lines from New York City to all points west. Although the...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 A transatlantic connection: Philadelphia, London, and the urban transit at the turn of the twentieth century Jim Wolfinger (DePaul University) Abstract: By American standards, Philadelphia was a large, dense, and old city by the late nineteenth century. Concentrated at the narrow point of land bounded by the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, the city proper held a population of some 850,000 people in...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-1939 Training up the escalated body Session 5: Underground technologies and bodies Richard Hornsey (University of the West of England) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 The Underground above ground Session 5: Underground technologies and bodies Lucy Maulsby (Northeastern University Boston) Abstract Architectural historians interested in underground transportation systems have largely focused on the representational character of the passenger stations, such as those designed by Otto Wagner in Vienna and Hector Guimard in Paris, and positioned these works within...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Hitchcock's Underground Session 8: The Underground and film David Pike (American University Washington) Abstract: “Hitchcock’s Underground” studies the fascinating intersection between one of cinema’s foremost directors and perhaps London’s most frequently filmed settings. Unlike a number of his contemporaries—Fritz Lang, to name a prominent example—Alfred Hitchcock used underground settings...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Tunnelling today for Crossrail tomorrow Plenary Lecture Michael Hebbert (University College London) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis Movement, vision, Underground Session 8: The Underground and Film Marko Jobst (University of Greenwich) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Listening and sounding in the London Underground: sonic memories as embodiments of technological Infrastructure Ximena Alarcon (University of the Arts) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Pick's posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground Oliver Green (Independent Scholar) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Letting off steam: the perils and possibilities of underground travel in Victorian and Edwardian London Richard Dennis (University College London) Plenary Lecture Abstract: Operating steam-hauled trains underground, even with locomotives designed to condense their own steam, was always going to cause problems. This paper focuses on some key episodes in the early history of the Metropolitan and...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-1939 Class and commuting on the underground, 1863-1939 Part of session 1: Underground Histories and Stories Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge) Abstract In the 21st Century London’s Underground is effectively “classless”. Builders and clerks, managers and secretaries, all travel in the same coaches and share the same free newspapers. But a century ago this mixing of classes was almost...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-1939 A job for life: changes seen in a 50-year career on London Underground, 1916-1966 Part of session 1: Underground Histories and Stories Piers Connor (University of Birmingham) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 The London Tube Map as a shared public diagram Part of session 2: Designing the Underground. Christoph Lueder (Kingston University) Abstract Harry Beck’s seminal London Tube Map, in over 80 years of use and alteration since its inception in 1931, has provided an indispensible tool for navigation to tourists and locals. It may have become one of the most widely recognized diagrammatic...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 The advantage of a trip abroad. The emergence of architectural Modernism Ulrike Weber (Technical University Kaiserslautern) Abstract: English Modernism has been neglected for a long time. It is only recently that researchers developed an interest in that field. London’s Underground tube stations of the interwar period are one of the earliest examples, which demonstrate one kind of development of...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground:Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-1939 'Stand clear of the doors, please': an aural journey on the London Underground Jacob Paskins (University of Cambridge) Abstract: The Underground is one of the noisiest places in London. The sounds of machines, crowds and the music of buskers accompany travellers on each journey through the Tube. Public address (PA) systems have become a central feature in the design of trains and stations. PA...

Institute of Historical Research Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Notes from the Underground: Seamus Heaney's 'District and Circle' Tom Herron (Leed Metropolitan University) A conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. Organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in association with the London Transport Museum. Image: © Transport for London and reproduced by kind permission of the London Transport Museum