{"id":333,"date":"2019-01-07T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=333"},"modified":"2019-01-07T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:33:06","slug":"lecture-with-andre-brett-it-was-very-tiresome-to-travel-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/lecture-with-andre-brett-it-was-very-tiresome-to-travel-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture with Andr\u00e9 Brett: It Was Very Tiresome to Travel at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kick off 2019 with our first Greenhouse lecture of the New Year with Dr. Andr\u00e9 Brett, Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at University of Wollongong, Australia, on <strong>Tuesday, Jan 22 at 13:00 in HG R-218<\/strong>. Andr\u00e9 will present some of his research related to darkness and travel in 19th century Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIt Was Very Tiresome to Travel at Night\u201d: The Nocturnal Environment of Railway Carriages in Late Colonial Australasia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australia_railway_carriage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passengers on nineteenth-century trains could expect little light at night. This paper explores the dim and malodorous environment of carriages lit by kerosene lamps, and how the introduction of Pintsch gas illumination brought great change. This technology, now all but forgotten, revolutionised the travel experience throughout Britain&#8217;s Australasian colonies; it made night-time travel pleasurable. The natural resources necessary for this lighting required the railways to exploit intercolonial and imperial trade networks. I blend economic and environmental history to show that concern for savings in running costs and an interest in providing a satisfactory travelling environment were mutually reinforcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kick off 2019 with our first Greenhouse lecture of the New Year with Dr. Andr\u00e9 Brett, Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Australia_railway.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}