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…
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…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
Our project is made by everyone who has been involved – particularly the volunteer teams at the institutions involved doing the hard work of transcribing…