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…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
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…
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…
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a guest blog post, so we’re delighted to return to form with this contribution from long-time project friend…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…