Books by Colin Divall

For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations, the case studies in this essay collection range from medieval to modern times and cover several continents.

Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. This book examines how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places.