One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…
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It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…
The spreadsheet has been available from the site for around 2 months now, so we thought it might be a good chance to give a…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
Welcome to the website for the Railway Work, Life & Death project. We’re a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum…
We’re delighted to be able to make the database available to you. It contains details of railway worker accidents investigated by the state (1900-15…
On this page we’ll let you know about any project events or talks about the project. Do get in touch if you’d like us to…
We’ll be providing a bit more detail about the team running the project in due course, but for the time being, we are: The volunteers…
Now that the database is available, we’re in the next phase of the project: where you get to use the data for your research, and…