Continuing our Disability History Month blog posts, today we’re exploring one of the new runs of data from our trade union data release earlier this…
In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…
In this blog post we continue our series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course this year. For their…
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…
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…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…
Something of a departure for our usual project focus, this week’s blog makes use of an accident report type we don’t usually have reason to…
In another one of those fortuitous encounters – in this case, virtually, on Twitter – we ended up in contact with the author of today’s…