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…
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a guest blog post, so we’re delighted to return to form with this contribution from long-time project friend…
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…
Over the course of our project work, we’ve done a lot. However, that’s only scratched the surface of the broad topic of railway worker accidents.…
In last week’s post, we looked at the ways in which the 1923 railway Grouping didn’t actually Group all railway companies. Many pre-1923 railway companies…
In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
Six months ago, we added an extra 17,000 records to our project database. Since then we’ve been promoting the database and trying to ensure people…