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Beer, rail and accidents
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…
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Mrs Clarkson, crane driver
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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Southport: lens into the project database
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…
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Local & Community History & our project
In the UK, May is Local and Community History Month – a means of highlighting the importance of local history and the importance of community…
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Elizabeth Calladine
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…
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‘Railwaymen’s Good Friday effort’: collecting for railway orphans
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…
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What happened after an accident? Our new trade union data release
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…
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Unity over seas: Irish trade unionist accidents
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…
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Work-caused disability: Frederick Potter, Portsmouth
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…
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What’s in the new data?
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,…