As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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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…
In the UK, May is Local and Community History Month – a means of highlighting the importance of local history and the importance of community…
Before we launched our trade union dataset (details here), we started to publicise what was coming. In response to our Tweet about one of the…
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…
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…
Last week we launched our enhanced dataset of Railway Inspectorate staff accident investigations. We added a further 17,000 records to the existing database, available here,…
Over the years, many people have toyed with the idea that we don’t fully die until we are forgotten. We hope that with our free…