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…
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…
On 10 November 1840, a steam locomotive named ‘Surprise’ exploded in Bromsgrove. It killed its crew, Joseph Rutherford and Thomas Scaife. The incident might perhaps…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
We’re delighted to welcome Sandra Gittens back to the project blog this week. Sandra is known for her research on – amongst others – the…
Whilst blog posts have largely reflected our project sources and focus, and looked at mainline railways in the UK and Ireland, this doesn’t capture all…
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…
We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…
In the course of her research into the military railway aspects of the First World War, Sandra Gittins has already found a number of accidents…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…