180 years ago the Grand Junction Railway moved its major locomotive construction workshops to Crewe, in Cheshire. Whilst the town of Crewe had been growing…
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…
Earlier in the year, this week’s guest author, Debbie Cameron, got in touch with us, about one of the cases featured in our new trade…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
5 July 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the NHS. In 1948, this was a radical rethinking of healthcare provision, making it free at the…
Sadly, for many people the first association with Senghenydd is the 1913 mining disaster which killed 440. It remains the most deadly colliery disaster in…
This week’s blog post is by guest author Jennifer Bromfield. Via her family history, we can see that she is a part of a ‘railway…
Internationally, for the last c.150 years May Day – May the 1st – has been linked with the labour movement and calls for better rights…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
Last week we released our new dataset – 25,000 records of support offered by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS)/ National Union of Railwaymen…