This year, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Established in 1973, it has specialised in records of…
180 years ago the Grand Junction Railway moved its major locomotive construction workshops to Crewe, in Cheshire. Whilst the town of Crewe had been growing…
One of the main causes of injury or fatality frequently recorded in the RWLD database is by ‘misadventure’. However, as anyone who has explored the…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
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…
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…
Internationally, for the last c.150 years May Day – May the 1st – has been linked with the labour movement and calls for better rights…
Last week we released our new dataset – 25,000 records of support offered by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS)/ National Union of Railwaymen…