This week’s blog post comes from guest author Evan Cossburn. Evan’s post was based on cases in last year’s data release of 17,000 accidents between…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
So far we’ve largely confined ourselves to the cases found in our database, to give you more detail on a small – but increasing –…
Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…
This week our blog features a guest post, from Marc Treloar, a 2nd year student at the University of Portsmouth. It’s particularly nice for us…
This week our blog features a guest post from Archie McDermott-Paintin, a 2nd year History student at the University of Portsmouth. Archie worked with fellow…
This week’s blog post is by guest author Jennifer Bromfield. Via her family history, we can see that she is a part of a ‘railway…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
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…
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…