Internationally, for the last c.150 years May Day – May the 1st – has been linked with the labour movement and calls for better rights…
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…
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…
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…
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 month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
Following up on last week’s blog post which looked at some cases from our newest data release, we thought it would be worth looking at…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. We wanted to provide you with a quick update…
… and a case from our new data release, for good measure! As we start 2020 it seems like a good time to look…