By now – after many years of work in the ‘Port Towns & Urban Cultures’ project – it’s probably old hat to say that port towns are important intersections between land and water, liminal zones and crossing points for people, goods and ideas. These transient places are of great interest to a range of historians, […]
![A Safe Port? Railway accidents in the dock Oil painting showing a train coming in to a multi-track railyard, with ships masts and smokestacks in the distance.](https://porttowns.port.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Cardiff_Docks_Lionel_Walden-100x100.jpg)