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…
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…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…
In this guest post, Helena Wojtczak explores fatal accidents to women working on and living around the railway, particularly those women either paid and employed…
If you’re based in the United Kingdom, you’ll no doubt be aware that 6 February 2018 marks a significant anniversary: the centenary of the Representation…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…