Oliver Betts

Oliver Betts is the Research Lead at the National Railway Museum in York. He is a historian of how technology, society, and culture intertwine in the long nineteenth-century, both in Britain and the wider Anglophone world. Above all, he is interested in how the experience of social class shaped, and was shaped by, the impact of technology. Over the last ten years he has published book chapters and articles on railway history, working-class society, museum studies, and the public history of the Victorian era, as well as being lead or contributing curator on numerous exhibitions and gallery redesigns.