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…
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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…
In this blog post we continue our series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course this year. For their…
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…
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…
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…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
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…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…