Category: Talks books and biography

By request, Tony has created a new illustrated talk featuring eight heritage railways in five countries – the USA, Ireland, Wales, France and England. The talk is accompanied throughout by video recordings made by Tony during the last 14 years.

The railways featured are:

• Mount Washington Cog Railway
• Conway Scenic Railroad, New Hampshire
• Dingle & Tralee Railway, Co. Kerry
• Ffestiniog Railway, Snowdonia
• Welsh Highland Railway, Snowdonia
• Talyllyn Railway, Mid Wales
• Baie de la Somme Railway, Picardie
• Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish, Co. Durham

A full list of Tony’s talks can be found by clicking on the ‘Talks, Books & Biography’ tab at the top of this page and following the links.…

This post is about the new book that Professor Hans-Erhard Lessing and I have written on the history of bicycle design. The project has taken 8 years and I joined it in 2010. The book has had valuable input from a great many people in various countries, including the eminent cycle historians Nick Clayton (UK) and Gary Sanderson (USA). It’s a German-English-American co-production, with Hans-Erhard Lessing based in Germany, me in England and the publisher in the USA.

Although Amazon have been selling the book for some time, it was not officially published in the UK and Europe until Thursday 29th May. Here’s the press release in PDF form: Hadland_Lessing_book

You may also like to read MIT’s blog, in which Hans and I answer questions about the book:

http://www.mitpress.mit.edu/blog/five-minutes-tony-hadland-and-hans-erhard-lessing

You can order the book from MIT by using this link:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026758

If you wish to order from Amazon.co.uk, you can use this link:

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