This week our blog features a guest post, from Marc Treloar, a 2nd year student at the University of Portsmouth. It’s particularly nice for us…
This week our blog features a guest post from Archie McDermott-Paintin, a 2nd year History student at the University of Portsmouth. Archie worked with fellow…
This week’s blog post is by guest author Jennifer Bromfield. Via her family history, we can see that she is a part of a ‘railway…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
Before we launched our trade union dataset (details here), we started to publicise what was coming. In response to our Tweet about one of the…
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…
This month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a guest blog post, so we’re delighted to return to form with this contribution from long-time project friend…
In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…