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Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…

This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…

To conclude our posts for Disability History Month, this week we’re focusing on what one of the datasets in our trade union data release can…

This week’s blog post looks at where disability appears in our project database for Welsh railway workers. It’s one of our posts marking Disability History…

Over the years our project and our blog have covered many topics relating to railway work and railway workers. But ethnicity hasn’t explicitly been one…

At the moment, there’s a really interesting event going on – called ‘All About That Place.’ It marks the 10th anniversary of the Society for…

In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…

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…

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…