In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
Whilst blog posts have largely reflected our project sources and focus, and looked at mainline railways in the UK and Ireland, this doesn’t capture all…
In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…