This blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module. The module asks students to work in groups on projects and to determine how they will present their findings; it gives them experience outside traditional degree work that will help […]
Archive | June, 2022
Of Strikes, Safety & Solidarity!
Today railway members of the RMT union started the first of 3 days of strike action. This will be hugely disruptive to a great many people, so it’s not an action that’s been taken lightly – strike action never is. It makes huge demands: you need to carry the affected people with you and focus […]
Our new data release: what do you want, and where?
Exciting news! We’re gearing up to make our next data release – around 16,000 new records. But we need your help … Provisionally we’re aiming for mid-July, as we’re cleaning up the dataset at the moment to make sure it’s as accurate and consistent as possible. This has been a long-term task, and we’re grateful […]
The Oakworth Anti-Vaccinator’s Railway Accident
By Sylvia Valentine on June 6, 2022 in Accident reports, Blog, Family History, Guest contribution, Medical humanities, Urban History
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 we’re exposed to – as in today’s guest blog post: another surprise that the apparently mundane topic of railway accidents has thrown up. There’s another aspect to the directions the […]
