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Portsmouth’s wartime railwaywomen – the Allaway sisters
2026 marks 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status – and as one of the Railway Work, Life & Death project co-leads, Mike Esbester, is based…
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Railwaywomen in the kitchen
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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Accidents & Midland Railway women
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…
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Wales, Rails & Women’s Work
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…
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Women of the twentieth-century 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…
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Women in our coming trade union data release
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…
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Women and the Barry Railway
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…
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More women – same accidents
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,…
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New surroundings and new dangers: wartime railwaywomen
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…
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Stoke-on-Trent’s First World War railwaywomen
This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked in and around Stoke-on-Trent before 1939. They’ve been researched as part of the…