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Sharing the Interrail love with historians in Glasgow and Dudley
During my recent UK tour, which was somewhat overshadowed by a certain Oasis reunion, I presented some of the findings from my Interrail research project to conference audiences in Glasgow and Dudley. As is the case at nearly every event I go to these days, I had the pleasure of encountering more late-twentieth century Interrailers.…
Interrail in the museum and at the archives
Have you ever had an unexpected sensory experience which immediately transported you back several decades? This happened to me last summer while I was exploring ‘The Compartment of Dreams’ exhibition at the Danish Railway Museum in Odense. Housed in a former engine shed, the exhibition revolves around two imposing but contrasting railway carriages. One is…
Reflections on a year of conducting Interrail oral history interviews
Over the past year I have travelled up and down the UK, meeting and interviewing fifty-two remarkable and generous people. They all took an Interrail trip at some point between 1972 and 1997, and I wanted to find out more about their youthful travel adventures. It was a privilege to hear and record their stories.…
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