Joseph Boughey

JOSEPH BOUGHEY is one of Britain's leading living waterways historians, co-author of British Canals: The Standard History . He taught estate management and environmental management and planning at Liverpool John Moores University until 2010. He has written for the Journal of Transport History , the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and the Waterways Journal , for which he was on the editorial board. He was a Council member of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, and a...See more

JOSEPH BOUGHEY is one of Britain's leading living waterways historians, co-author of British Canals: The Standard History . He taught estate management and environmental management and planning at Liverpool John Moores University until 2010. He has written for the Journal of Transport History , the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and the Waterways Journal , for which he was on the editorial board. He was a Council member of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the Raymond Williams Foundation. He has spoken about Rolt on television and was 'canal consultant' for the series Canals: The Making of A Nation . Since 2013, he has had a regular column in Narrowboat magazine. See less