Joseph Boughey Author

Joseph Boughey is one of Britain's leading living waterways historians, co-author of British Canals: The Standard History. He has written about Rolt in the Journal of Transport History, the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and the Waterways Journal, for which he on the editorial board. For many years, 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 in two television programmes and was ‘canal consultant’ for the series Canals: The Making of A Nation (2015). Since 2013, he has had a regular column in Narrowboat magazine.