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…
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…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
Of all of the types of injuries that appear in our database, burns and scalds are relatively infrequent. This might just be an artefact of…
Recently in my household, we had an object lesson in how government regulations have helped improve our health and wellbeing – via one (big) pane…
How far could workers control their own fates? In the 19th century and well into the 20th it was believed by many – certainly the…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
If you’re in the UK, you’ll have noticed it’s been rather cold of late, including a lot of snow. Despite the adverse comment about some…