Today we reach a significant project milestone: it’s a year since we made the database of nearly 4,000 British & Irish railway worker accidents available…
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28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
Today’s post is a little different to usual – though hopefully still relevant and interesting to our readers. Typically we’ve taken a case or two…
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…
The spreadsheet has been available from the site for around 2 months now, so we thought it might be a good chance to give a…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
Welcome to the website for the Railway Work, Life & Death project. We’re a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum…
We’re delighted to be able to make the database available to you. It contains details of railway worker accidents investigated by the state (1900-15…