Beyond the Tracks : re-connecting people, places and stations in the history of late-Victorian railways

Rhodes, Joshua and Lawrence, Jon and Beelen, Kaspar and McDonough, Katherine and Wilson, Daniel C. S. (2024) Beyond the Tracks : re-connecting people, places and stations in the history of late-Victorian railways. In: Living with Machines : Computational Histories in the Age of Industry. University of London, London. ISBN 9781914477652

Abstract

This chapter showcases Living with Machines’ work creating open-source historical data using nineteenth-century British census, map, and railway station datasets. Combining these in ‘convergence experiments’ using place to frame new historical questions, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of making datasets interoperable and offer new insights into the quotidian impact of railways.