Next week we’re heading north – sufficiently so that there aren’t any railways that feature in the project. We’re off to Shetland and Orkney, off…
June 2024 saw the 40th anniversary of the closure of Shildon Works, in County Durham. The closure, in 1984, hit Shildon hard, with the loss…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
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…
In a week’s time, on Christmas Day, the UK’s rail network will be a lot quieter than usual. There won’t be any passenger services running.…
To conclude our posts for Disability History Month, this week we’re focusing on what one of the datasets in our trade union data release can…
This week’s blog post looks at where disability appears in our project database for Welsh railway workers. It’s one of our posts marking Disability History…
Continuing our Disability History Month blog posts, today we’re exploring one of the new runs of data from our trade union data release earlier this…
This year, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Established in 1973, it has specialised in records of…