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The History of Timekeeping
You're Dead to Me
The Knocker Uppers of the Nineteenth Century
Since time immemorial, every place in britain has had its local time. By the 18 fifties, pretty much very part of the british rail network had standardized its time to london time - which meant greenwich meantime. So is it the universal railway that changes it, or is there more going on here? I know you've worked on this area, so what's your cutting-edge theory? We have now into nineteenth century, and we're going to talk a bit about britain and about the politicsof time standardization.
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