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…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
This week’s blog post comes from guest author Evan Cossburn. Evan’s post was based on cases in last year’s data release of 17,000 accidents between…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
So far we’ve largely confined ourselves to the cases found in our database, to give you more detail on a small – but increasing –…
Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…
The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
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…
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…