An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experiences. Transport history is social and industrial national history. Passengers and freight will be covered including all types of transport from walking and packhorses, that predominated for much of national history, both of which tend to be underrated, to changes brought by improvements to road transport from the Romans to medieval bridgebuilders and eighteenth-century turnpikes, and, in parallel, river, coastal and canal travel, again from the Romans to the eighteenth century. The story moves to the age of rail, motoring and lastly air. All forms overlap. as well as being sequential.
Jeremy Black has been described as the most prolific historical scholar of our age. He has researched and written widely on British history, politics, including political ideas, and international relations, since the 17th and 18th century to the present, and especially on military history.
He obtained a starred First in History at Queens College, Cambridge followed by postgraduate work at St Johns and Merton Colleges, Oxford and was Professor of History at the Universities of Durham and then Exeter, and is now Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He is senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and at the British Foreign Policy Group.
He has lectured extensively in various British Commonwealth countries, Europe and the USA. He has served as archives editor, council member of prestigious academic and research bodies like Royal Historical Society and the British Records Association and on editorial boards of numerous history journals - History Today, RUSI Journal, International Review of Military History, Media History etc. He has numerous honours including the MBE. From 2024 Jeremy has been Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College.
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