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Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain 1845–1870*

Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain... PAST & PRESENT NUMBER 189 NOVEMBER 2005 CONTENTS page MANHOOD AND POLITICS IN THE REIGN OF RICHARD II: by Christopher Fletcher .................................................. 3 CHARLES I: A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY: by Mark Kishlansky ..................................................... 41 ‘A THOUSAND COUNTRIES TO GO TO’: PEASANTS AND RULERS IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BENGAL: by Jon E. Wilson ....................................................... 81 BUSINESS IN PICTURES: REPRESENTATIONS OF RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN THE SATIRICAL PRESS IN BRITAIN 1845–1870: by James Taylor ........................................ 111 THE BODY AND SOCIALISM: DORA RUSSELL IN THE 1920S: by Stephen Brooke ........................................................ 147 MIND THE GAP: THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF COMMUNIST SABOTAGE OF FRENCH WAR PRODUCTION DURING THE PHONEY WAR 1939–1940: by Talbot Imlay ....................................................... 179 Published by Oxford University Press for the Past and Present Society BUSINESS IN PICTURES: REPRESENTATIONS OF RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN THE SATIRICAL PRESS IN BRITAIN 1845–1870 While perhaps not quite a nation of trainspotters, the British have demonstrated an enduring fascination for railways. Emblematic of British engineering skill and Wnancial might in the nineteenth century, the railway seemed to be symbolic of national decline in the twentieth, the scaling down of the nationalized network in the 1960s mirroring the concurrent retreat from empire. The romance of the steam engine http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Past & Present Oxford University Press

Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain 1845–1870*

Past & Present , Volume 189 (1) – Nov 1, 2005

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Oxford University Press
Copyright
© The Past and Present Society, Oxford, 2005
ISSN
0031-2746
eISSN
1477-464X
DOI
10.1093/pastj/gti028
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PAST & PRESENT NUMBER 189 NOVEMBER 2005 CONTENTS page MANHOOD AND POLITICS IN THE REIGN OF RICHARD II: by Christopher Fletcher .................................................. 3 CHARLES I: A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY: by Mark Kishlansky ..................................................... 41 ‘A THOUSAND COUNTRIES TO GO TO’: PEASANTS AND RULERS IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BENGAL: by Jon E. Wilson ....................................................... 81 BUSINESS IN PICTURES: REPRESENTATIONS OF RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN THE SATIRICAL PRESS IN BRITAIN 1845–1870: by James Taylor ........................................ 111 THE BODY AND SOCIALISM: DORA RUSSELL IN THE 1920S: by Stephen Brooke ........................................................ 147 MIND THE GAP: THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF COMMUNIST SABOTAGE OF FRENCH WAR PRODUCTION DURING THE PHONEY WAR 1939–1940: by Talbot Imlay ....................................................... 179 Published by Oxford University Press for the Past and Present Society BUSINESS IN PICTURES: REPRESENTATIONS OF RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN THE SATIRICAL PRESS IN BRITAIN 1845–1870 While perhaps not quite a nation of trainspotters, the British have demonstrated an enduring fascination for railways. Emblematic of British engineering skill and Wnancial might in the nineteenth century, the railway seemed to be symbolic of national decline in the twentieth, the scaling down of the nationalized network in the 1960s mirroring the concurrent retreat from empire. The romance of the steam engine

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Published: Nov 1, 2005

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