As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…
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…
March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…