Four years ago, in 2022, the Railway Work, Life & Death project researched the Wilmcote accident, which killed four Great Western Railway (GWR) track workers…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
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…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
This week’s post is a one of two halves. We’re starting with a request – hopefully you can help! We’re really keen to hear from…
So far most of the details in our database have focused on the accidents that British and Irish railway workers had before 1939. They’ve been…
Today railway members of the RMT union started the first of 3 days of strike action. This will be hugely disruptive to a great many…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
We’re excited to announce that we’re taking part in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ event! On a single day, we’re going…