In the UK, May is Local and Community History Month – a means of highlighting the importance of local history and the importance of community…
Internationally, for the last c.150 years May Day – May the 1st – has been linked with the labour movement and calls for better rights…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
This week’s post is a one of two halves. We’re starting with a request – hopefully you can help! We’re really keen to hear from…
Last week we released our new dataset – 25,000 records of support offered by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS)/ National Union of Railwaymen…
So far most of the details in our database have focused on the accidents that British and Irish railway workers had before 1939. They’ve been…
This week we continue our exploration of the next update to our project database – around 25,000 records of railway trade union members and their…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
Over the course of our project work, we’ve done a lot. However, that’s only scratched the surface of the broad topic of railway worker accidents.…
In last week’s post, we looked at the ways in which the 1923 railway Grouping didn’t actually Group all railway companies. Many pre-1923 railway companies…