This week our blog features a guest post from Archie McDermott-Paintin, a 2nd year History student at the University of Portsmouth. Archie worked with fellow…
Sadly, for many people the first association with Senghenydd is the 1913 mining disaster which killed 440. It remains the most deadly colliery disaster in…
This week’s blog post is by guest author Jennifer Bromfield. Via her family history, we can see that she is a part of a ‘railway…
The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
In the UK, May is Local and Community History Month – a means of highlighting the importance of local history and the importance of community…
Internationally, for the last c.150 years May Day – May the 1st – has been linked with the labour movement and calls for better rights…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
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…