Collection: Dr Edwin Course Collection

Description

The collection contains circa 9900 colour and black and white 35mm slides complied by university lecturer, author and industrial archaeologist Dr Edwin Alfred Course during the mid to late 20th century. The slides date from around 1890 to 2002 and reflect Dr Course’s interest in industrial archaeology. Most of the slides appear to be Dr Course’s own photography with a small proportion made up of copies of late 19th or early 20th century photographs, postcards and published material. Monuments and landscapes relating to transport history are especially well represented, notably railways and canals. Other subjects include watermills, mining, mills, tollhouses, lime kilns, brickworks, docks, tramways, gasworks, street scenes, townscapes farm buildings, vernacular architecture etc. Geographical coverage is national but with a focus on Hampshire, which accounts for over a quarter of the collection. The collection includes a sizeable number of Welsh and Scottish sites. Dr Course lectured at Southampton University from the 1960s. He was also chair of the Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group (SUIAG). For many years members of the group researched, explored and recorded the industrial archaeology of Hampshire. It’s likely that many of the slides within this collection were created or collected as part of this research.

As well as his academic career, Edwin Course was also the author of a number of books about railways including: Railways Then and Now: The Changing Railway Scene in Britain (1979); London Railways: Then and Now (1988); The Railways of Southern England (1976) and The Southampton and Netley Railway (1973).

Archival History

The collection was acquired by The English Heritage Archive in 2012.

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