Exploring Britain’s railways from 1812 to 2007. 1812: The First Effective Locomotive-Powered Railway The coal-carrying Middleton Railway,...
Travel and Transportation
Explore the history and culture of travel, including pilgrimage, exploration, tourism, travel writing, and encounters among societies around the world.
This network of FSA camps—the series of communities designed to be occupied and left on a seasonal...
Venus’s bathing. (Margate). Side way or any way., Thomas Rowlandson / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Fashionable seaside towns...
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
Stowaway Perce Blackborow and Mrs Chippy aboard Shackleton’s Endurance, 1914-1917. Photo courtesy Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge By Laura...
Students at Ponar Forest in Lithuania, where Nazis massacred many Jews. Daniel B. Bitran By Dr. Daniel B....
By Alexa Erickson / 12.29.2016 Quit your job, travel the world, be free. There are a lot...
By Chris Agnos / 12.18.2016 Could Driverless Cars Change Our Concept of Ownership? The relationship between human...
12.14.2016 Heading home for the holidays may fill you with joy, as well as a little dread...
12.14.2016 If you’re a dog lover visiting Bangkok, you simply must stop by the True Love Café, a...
11.15.2016 Chinsekikan, or The Hall of Curious Rocks is a unique museum in the Japanese town Saitama,...
CCTV 11.18.2016 Home made bread has become very popular in Sweden over the last few years, so...
When driving at night, there’s nothing quite as annoying as being blinded by the full-beam headlights of...
By Andrea James / 10.21.2016 Andrew Holzschuh took a photo of his shoes every day as he...