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Off the Rails: Interrail at the Movies
Over the past three years I have conducted oral history interviews with more than fifty people from across the UK about their experiences of Interrailing in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. Along the way I also discovered three contrasting films which featured this late-twentieth-century youth travel phenomenon. Released in 1995, Aditya Chopra’s ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le…
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…
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