Anthony Dawson

Anthony L. Dawson https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/LKCLm5IyP1a3pGrch29ZOIpNZLA/appointments is a British railway historian and author who has a YouTube channel of the same name created in 2020, he uploads educational content regarding the early development of railways during the industrial revolution, he is also an expert on the Crimean War of the 1850s.
== Personal Life ==
=== Education ===
Born in November, 1980, Dawson lives in Stockport in Greater Manchester, England; he studied at the University of Bradfordhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034OTMXK/abouthttps://www.amberley-books.com/author-community-main-page/d/community-anthony-dawson.html from 2000 to 2003https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-dawson-7694891a1 receiving a Bachelor's degree of Archeological Sciences, before studying at Leeds College of Music from 2003 to 2005 receiving a Diploma of Music in classical music, and finally studied at the University of Leeds from 2010 to 2013, receiving a Master of Arts in History.
=== Career ===
As a field archeologist he worked with the Wood Hall Archeological Trust in North Yorkshire from 1994 to 2000, as well as appearing on television on Channel 4's Time Team and BBC Digging for Britain in series 9, episode 3https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6885574711292542976/, he has also appeared on Channel 5's Secret History of the Railways.
From 2008 to 2010 Dawson was a lecturer at Salford City College and worked in various capacities at Tameside Council from 2008 to 2011. He was a speaker for the Science Museum Group from 2015 to early 2020, and has been a writer for the Steam Railway Magazine since July 2021, additionally he is the current director of the Foxfield Light Railway also since 2021. He is a member of both the Railway & Canal Historical Society, and the Newcomen Society.
Dawson has worked in various Unitarian religious organisations at different positionshttps://twitter.com/RailStory, first being the minister of music for the parish of St Elisabeth in Reddish from 2013 to 2015, and is currently an organist for the Cross Street Chapel and Brookfield Unitarian Church, he has also been the leader of the Lay ministry at Hyde Chapel in Cheshire since August 2023.
=== Publications ===
As an author Dawson has published various non-fictional titleshttps://www.google.com.au/search?q=inauthor:%22Anthony+Dawson%22&sca_esv=f8e66e6f0e6a17a8&sca_upv=1&tbm=bks&sxsrf=ADLYWILjh42mjRcu4Jv21xcEgNegIN7o_A:1721010172510&ei=_IeUZrPhHuDa2roP7aOx0Ac&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwizz_K__qeHAxVgrVYBHe1RDHo4KBDy0wN6BAgFEAQ&biw=1366&bih=641&dpr=1, including Letters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War (2014), The Liverpool & Manchester Railway (2016), Real War Horses: The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914 (2016), The Woodhead Route (2017), The Early Railways of Manchester (2017), Voices from the Past: The Siege of Sevastopol, 1854–1855 (2017), Working on the Victorian Railway (2017), Travelling on the Victorian Railway (2017), The Rainhill Trials (2018), The Early Railways of Leeds (2018), A Day in the Life of an Engine Driver (2018), Royal Dragoon Guards: An Illustrated History (2018), Steam Across The Pennines (2018), The Grand Crimean Central Railway (2019), The Victorian and Edwardian Railway in Old Photographs (2019), Locomotives of the Victorian Railway: The Early Days of Steam (2019), Yorkshires First Main Line: The Leeds and Selby Railway (2020, with M. J. T. Lewis), Before Rocket: The Steam Locomotive up to 1829 (2020), The Liverpool and Manchester Railway: An Operating History (2020), Lion: The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbolt (2021), Liverpool and Locomotives of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (2021), Rainhill Men: Railway Pioneers (2022), The Railway that Helped Win the Crimean War (2022), North Staffordshire Railway (2023), and The Planet and Samson Locomotives: Their Design and Development (2023).
== Content ==
=== Rail Story ===
The main series of the channel, which is divided into two sub-series, The Basics and Spotlight. This series was likely inspired by Dawson's podcast On Historical Lineshttps://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/392598174, which actually began as a bloghttps://onhistoricallines.blogspot.com/.
==== The Basics ====
A sub-series of Rail Story in which Dawson covers early developments in railway history. The first video on the channel, titled Rocket, uploaded on 31 March 2020 at 10 minutes and 11 seconds in duration is also the first episode of Rail Story and The Basics, as of 15 July 2024 it has over 12.2K views, 522 likes, and 46 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-_nvq9erGQ. The most popular video on the channel as of 15 July 2024 is titled Montparnasse and was uploaded on 26 March 2021 and has over 34.3K views, 986 likes, and 123 comments, it is also a part of The Basics sub-serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOXpUiK0OU.
==== Spotlight ====
Another sub-series of Rail Story which focuses on individual locomotives. Spotlight makes up the majority of Dawson's uploads and videos in the Rail Story series.
== References ==
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Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:British YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020