Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…
Sadly, for many people the first association with Senghenydd is the 1913 mining disaster which killed 440. It remains the most deadly colliery disaster in…
The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…