Very often the Railway Work, Life & Death project has focused on ‘front-line’, operational staff, who kept the trains moving. They’ve been clustered in roles…
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This summer, we’ll be introducing a vast run of records to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and Irish…
Marking both Women’s History Month and St David’s Day, today’s blog post focuses on one place we’re going to find Welsh railwaywomen in the Railway…
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…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…
March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
It’s done! Today we release another c.69,000 records of railway staff accidents into the Railway Work, Life & Death project database – available here, for…