A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
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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…
This year, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Established in 1973, it has specialised in records of…
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…
So far most of the details in our database have focused on the accidents that British and Irish railway workers had before 1939. They’ve been…
This week we continue our exploration of the next update to our project database – around 25,000 records of railway trade union members and their…
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…
Hot off the press, we’re delighted to say that we’ve just had a favourable ethical opinion on the next project extension. It’s going to bring…
Until March 2025, we’d been quite confident in saying that in Britain, women didn’t work maintaining railway tracks until the Second World War. That’s certainly…
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…