Diary dates (February 2018)

This month's winner is Alan Hayward FREng, CEng, FICE, FIStructE, whose sketches are of the Victorian footbridge at Alton Station in Hampshire, which is to undergo restoration.

In this section we shine a spotlight on papers recently published in Structures – the Research Journal of The Institution of Structural Engineers.

Robert Thorne enjoys this thorough and immaculately referenced biography of a great Victorian engineer whose inventiveness and achievements are underappreciated today.