The document summarizes a three year doctoral project studying how the Great Western Railway (GWR) marketed the landscape through images from 1897 to 1947. Over 30,000 images from the National Railway Museum were analyzed using GIS mapping to identify patterns and changes over time. The project also explored how digital technologies can make museum collections more accessible to both academic and public audiences.

1. ‘… from which to taste a vicarious holiday’: Railway marketing, digital history and collaboration. Matt Thompson, University of York

4. Railway Marketing

5. The ‘citizen geographer’

7. Changes in the GWR’s tourist utopia Below: pre 1914- sublime landscapes, typically unpopulated. The Cheeswring from 1904 edition of Cornish Riviera. Above: Newquay from 1935 edition of Holiday Haunts, landscapes of activity filled with tourists.

12. GIS mapping

17. Digital Humanities Troubles related deaths in Belfast, 1968-2001. (a) Protestant civilians killed by Republicans and (b) Catholic civilians killed by Loyalists

19. ‘ Close Reading’ with Google Earth