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…
Sadly, for many people the first association with Senghenydd is the 1913 mining disaster which killed 440. It remains the most deadly colliery disaster in…
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 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…