As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This week we continue our exploration of the next update to our project database – around 25,000 records of railway trade union members and their…
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 month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…