In this blog post we continue our occasional series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course. For their second-year…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
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…
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 blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module.…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
In a week’s time, on Christmas Day, the UK’s rail network will be a lot quieter than usual. There won’t be any passenger services running.…
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 week’s blog post looks at where disability appears in our project database for Welsh railway workers. It’s one of our posts marking Disability History…
Last week’s blog looked at shunter Frederick Potter, and the way his railway work continued, in a different role, after his 1913 accident which led…