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Le séminaire Histoire des sciences, histoire de l'innovation(Université Paris Sorbonne, UPMC, LabEx EHNE)a le plaisir d’accueillirDavid Edgerton (King’s College London)le jeudi 27 avril 2017 de 17 à 19hà l'Institut des sciences de la communication (ISCC), salle de conférence (rdc)20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, 75013, M° Gobelinsautour du sujetTransport in Twentieth-Century British HistoryThree dimensions of the United Kingdom’s overseas relations–  European, Imperial, and Global Résumé :For the United Kingdom the sea, and the air,  has been as much as bridge as a barrier.  As the United Kingdom separates itself from the European Union, in part in pursuit of a departed past as ‘Global Britain’, it is a good time to reflect on the changing material and political-economic dimensions of its connections to the rest of the world.  My paper will concentrate on ships and aeroplanes, ports and airports,  showing how they engaged in different ways with three dimensions of the United Kingdom’s overseas relations –  European, Imperial, and Global.  Drawing on a new history of the twentieth-century United Kingdom I am completing I will show how machines mattered, and how they were shaped with particular political-economic aims in mind, and how they have shaped the very existence of the United Kingdom.&#160;[caption id="attachment_1475" align="aligncenter" width="300"] circa 1938: Sir Robert Hodgson arriving at Croydon from Paris on an Imperial Airways flight. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)[/caption]&#160;David Edgerton est professeur d’histoire des sciences et technologies, spécialisé en histoire britannique moderne.Après avoir enseigné à l'Université de Manchester, il est devenu le directeur fondateur du Centre pour l'histoire de la science, de la technologie et de la médecine au Imperial College London (1993-2003). Depuis 2013, il a rejoint le département d'histoire du King’s College London.&#160;Sélection de publications :  England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machine  (Penguin, 2013) [First published, 1991] Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War  (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2011) The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900  (Profile Books, 2007) [translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Korean] Warfare State: Britain 1920-1970  (Cambridge University Press, 2005) [Japanese translation forthcoming from Nagoya University Press] Science, Technology and the British Industrial ‘Decline’ 1870-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 1996) Quoi de neuf ? Du rôle des techniques dans l’histoire globale (Seuil, 2013)&#160;Prochaines séances du séminaire : 4 mai      Lino Camprubi (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)Underwater Surveillance and the Modern Mediterranean. 11 mai      Ana Cardoso de Matos (Universidade de Évora)L’hydroélectricité au Portugal dans le contexte européen : circulation des ingénieurs, transfert de technologie et construction des paysages de l’innovation.