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…
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…
This month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
In this guest post, Francis Howcutt recounts the accidental death of Arthur Bott, a brother of his great grandfather. Arthur’s history is an example of…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…