4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
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…
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,…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…