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…
Continuing our Women’s History Month focus on where women feature in our project database, this week we’re turning to what remains a concern for the…
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…
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…
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 week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…
Earlier in the year, this week’s guest author, Debbie Cameron, got in touch with us, about one of the cases featured in our new trade…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
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…