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…
Last week’s blog looked at shunter Frederick Potter, and the way his railway work continued, in a different role, after his 1913 accident which led…
In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers Ahead of this week’s Crewe: Your Railway, Your Family event, on Thursday 14 September as part…
180 years ago the Grand Junction Railway moved its major locomotive construction workshops to Crewe, in Cheshire. Whilst the town of Crewe had been growing…
One of the main causes of injury or fatality frequently recorded in the RWLD database is by ‘misadventure’. However, as anyone who has explored the…
In this blog post we continue our series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course this year. For their…
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…
This week’s blog post comes from guest author Evan Cossburn. Evan’s post was based on cases in last year’s data release of 17,000 accidents between…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…