This week we’re delighted to welcome a guest post to the Railway Work, Life & Death project blog. Shaun Brooke got in touch with us…
In this week’s blog post, guest author Daisy Turnbull looks at some of the challenges involved in crossing railway lines in the past. As she…
Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…
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…
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a guest blog post, so we’re delighted to return to form with this contribution from long-time project friend…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics…
In another one of those fortuitous encounters – in this case, virtually, on Twitter – we ended up in contact with the author of today’s…