The IRS&TH administers two news and discussion e-mail lists, 'railway-studies' and 'transport-history'.

Railway-studies is open to anyone who is interested in the academic study of railways, past, present and future. The list has been running since July 1995. Although in the IRS&TH we focus on those aspects of railways that can be analysed with the disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences, the use of the list is not restricted to news and discussions that draw upon these perspectives (scientific and engineering subjects are welcome, for example). Please respect the essentially scholarly nature of the list, however; do not use it for topics of a primarily enthusiast nature - there are plenty of other more suitable lists and web sites available for these purposes.

The transport-history list was set up in January 1999 and is intended to appeal to anyone who is interested in the academic study of any kind of civilian travel and transport, land sea or air. Again, the list is of a scholarly nature, and embraces contributions from the humanities and social sciences, operational, and engineering and scientific fields.

How to join

You may join these lists by using the JISCmail web interface.

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