Mike Esbester
Biographic Data
| ID | 694054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Esbester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Esbester |
| SIGNATURE | ESBESTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6674-5991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New journeys through railway history
Railway Work, Life & Death
The “Railway Work, Life & Death” project explores accidents and ill-health amongst British and Irish railway workers from the late nineteenth century to 1939. Drawing from state, railway company and trade union records, the project is making details of the working lives and accidents of railway employees more easily accessible. This note describes the collaborative impetus behind the project, and the crowd-sourcing methodology used, including the…
Regulatory inspection and the changing legitimacy of health and safety
The regulation of conduct via law is a key mechanism through which broader social meanings are negotiated and expressed. The use of regulatory tools to bring about desired outcomes reflects existing social and political understandings of institutional legitimacy, the meanings attached to regulation, and the values it seeks to advance. But these contextual understandings are not static, and their evolution poses challenges for regulators, particul…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broad…
Keith Laybourn with David Taylor, The Battle for the Roads of Britain. Police, Motorists and the Law, c. 1890s to 1970s
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Introduction
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
Promoting Road Safety
Promoting Road Safety Mike Esbester (bio) Where are they going, the couple on the motorbike that adorns this issue’s cover? Somewhere exciting, no doubt, and at great speed, with the wind billowing through the man’s scarf and the woman’s hair. They are young and free, making the most of 1960s Britain, about to roar past the viewer and off into the distance. Wherever they are going, this 1969 road safety poster tells us, they are getting there saf…
Vicky Long, The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory. The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60
Over the last twenty-five years or so, the history of occupational health has received increasing attention. However, much of this has concentrated on the period before 1914 (for example, Catherine Mills, Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, Ashgate, 2010) or on relatively controversial industries, most notably asbestos (for example, Geoff Tweedale, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust, Oxford University Press, 2000).…
Designing Time
Journal Article Designing Time: The Design and Use of Nineteenth-Century Transport Timetables Get access Mike Esbester Mike Esbester Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 91-113, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epp011 Published: 01 June 2009
Organizing work
This article explores how company magazines went beyond the creation of corporate culture and were used as a tool of management to manipulate and control the labour process. The article concentrates upon the Great Western Railway, its staff magazine and the occupational safety education campaign run between 1913–1939. Using Foucauldian notions of discipline, it is argued that the magazine propagated a specific version of ‘safety’ which attempted …
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
Regulatory inspection and the changing legitimacy of health and safety
The regulation of conduct via law is a key mechanism through which broader social meanings are negotiated and expressed. The use of regulatory tools to bring about desired outcomes reflects existing social and political understandings of institutional legitimacy, the meanings attached to regulation, and the values it seeks to advance. But these contextual understandings are not static, and their evolution poses challenges for regulators, particul…
Organizing work
This article explores how company magazines went beyond the creation of corporate culture and were used as a tool of management to manipulate and control the labour process. The article concentrates upon the Great Western Railway, its staff magazine and the occupational safety education campaign run between 1913–1939. Using Foucauldian notions of discipline, it is argued that the magazine propagated a specific version of ‘safety’ which attempted …
Introduction
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
Designing Time
Journal Article Designing Time: The Design and Use of Nineteenth-Century Transport Timetables Get access Mike Esbester Mike Esbester Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 91-113, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epp011 Published: 01 June 2009
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
Organizing work
This article explores how company magazines went beyond the creation of corporate culture and were used as a tool of management to manipulate and control the labour process. The article concentrates upon the Great Western Railway, its staff magazine and the occupational safety education campaign run between 1913–1939. Using Foucauldian notions of discipline, it is argued that the magazine propagated a specific version of ‘safety’ which attempted …
Designing Time
Journal Article Designing Time: The Design and Use of Nineteenth-Century Transport Timetables Get access Mike Esbester Mike Esbester Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 91-113, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epp011 Published: 01 June 2009
Vicky Long, The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory. The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60
Over the last twenty-five years or so, the history of occupational health has received increasing attention. However, much of this has concentrated on the period before 1914 (for example, Catherine Mills, Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914, Ashgate, 2010) or on relatively controversial industries, most notably asbestos (for example, Geoff Tweedale, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust, Oxford University Press, 2000).…
Introduction
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
Promoting Road Safety
Promoting Road Safety Mike Esbester (bio) Where are they going, the couple on the motorbike that adorns this issue’s cover? Somewhere exciting, no doubt, and at great speed, with the wind billowing through the man’s scarf and the woman’s hair. They are young and free, making the most of 1960s Britain, about to roar past the viewer and off into the distance. Wherever they are going, this 1969 road safety poster tells us, they are getting there saf…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broad…
Keith Laybourn with David Taylor, The Battle for the Roads of Britain. Police, Motorists and the Law, c. 1890s to 1970s
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Regulatory inspection and the changing legitimacy of health and safety
The regulation of conduct via law is a key mechanism through which broader social meanings are negotiated and expressed. The use of regulatory tools to bring about desired outcomes reflects existing social and political understandings of institutional legitimacy, the meanings attached to regulation, and the values it seeks to advance. But these contextual understandings are not static, and their evolution poses challenges for regulators, particul…
Railway Work, Life & Death
The “Railway Work, Life & Death” project explores accidents and ill-health amongst British and Irish railway workers from the late nineteenth century to 1939. Drawing from state, railway company and trade union records, the project is making details of the working lives and accidents of railway employees more easily accessible. This note describes the collaborative impetus behind the project, and the crowd-sourcing methodology used, including the…
New journeys through railway history
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