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…
19-25 May 2025 is ‘Community Rail Week’ – an annual chance to boost the work being done to connect communities with their railways today. The…
Very often the Railway Work, Life & Death project has focused on ‘front-line’, operational staff, who kept the trains moving. They’ve been clustered in roles…
This week, the Railway Work, Life & Death project is off to Aberystwyth, for the Transport for Wales Railway 200 launch! It’s a privilege to…
It’s not often there’s the chance to tell the story of an ordinary railway worker’s accident on a national platform. James Welland’s 1898 injury offered…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers The second in the occasional series relating to staff accidents at Crewe. Guest author Margaret…
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
March is Women’s History Month, and once again is a good opportunity for our project to reflect on where women appear in our work. This…
A leap year and a leap day are always a bit unusual. Sadly for the railways they weren’t so unusual in terms of the accidents…
To conclude our posts for Disability History Month, this week we’re focusing on what one of the datasets in our trade union data release can…