24 HOURS TO GO! The new Railway Work, Life & Death project dataset arrives tomorrow afternoon. We're launching it at The National Archives of the UK The National Archives at 2pm! Get ready .... c.70,000 railway worker accident cases, covering England & Wales, 1855-1929. #Railway200

This is fabulous news. Well done all involved 👏

Our piece for The Conversation, based on the data we released yesterday! Nearly 70,000 railway worker accident cases and a number of ways they might be used inside and outside the current British rail industry: theconversation.com/how-rememberin…

TOMORROW! The Railway Work, Life & Death project stand is as Severn Valley Railway, at #Kidderminster! It's part of the 'Inspiration' #Railway200 exhibition train visit - come & see us too! We'll be premiering our free new leaflet, focused on the SVR! railway200 Heritage Railway Association

NEW HISTORY BLOG POST The first of our posts from our 3rd-year dissertation students. Jacob Canavan on Polish Protestantism, forgotten at home, but influential abroad, contributing to the European enlightenment. wp.me/P91PlX-c @UoP_SASHPL UoP Humanities and Social Sciences

NEW BLOG POST! We're back - both from a month's gap (due to the new data release) AND revisiting an important topic: How do heritage railways negotiate difficult pasts, like occupational accidents? And how might our project help? #Railway200 Heritage Railway Association railway200

COMING SOON! Sunday 20 & 27 July Saturday 30 August 10.30 & 14.00 Project co-lead Mike Esbester (Univ. Ports History) will offer a walking tour of Didcot Railway Centre! It looks at Didcot's pre-1939 staff, through the accidents they had & the traces they left behind. #Railway200

Yesterday the Liberation Route UK featured on BBC Radio Solent and then BBC online news. This was following the launch of the two new trails in Portsmouth and Dartmouth. Our collaboration with the University of Portsmouth continues to go from strength to strength giving the

Our two new Liberation Route UK walking trails in Portsmouth and Dartmouth. -Community in War- Scarred Portsmouth -Dartmouth at War Grab your walking boots and head out to explore these themed routes taking in local Second World War historical sites and stories. More details

JUST UPDATED! Two more of our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts posters are on display at #Havant station! If you're passing, be sure to take a look - find out more about Henry Potter & Robert Spicer. #Railway200 There's more on them, & the others, here: railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-are…

If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.

You can find out more about the Univ. Ports History undergraduate #History degrees at today's Open Day! That includes the excellent work our students produce in & for our communities - just 1 example below. Come & meet staff & students to find out more! 👇 x.com/RWLDproject/st…

NEW BLOG POST! Ahead of the @railwaymuseum's 50th anniversary & re-opening of Station Hall, we look at the site in its original guise - as a goods shed. We explore a few of the workers & their accidents & how our project feeds into the NRM! #Railway200 railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/delivering-the…

Still available, still free to access - go for it! 👇

V pleased that Havant Local History Group chair & Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project member, Neil Spurgeon, is giving a talk tonight in Hambledon, about one of 'our' railway workers - Trayton Griffin. Great to share the research, especially where the Griffin family came from!

If you're at today's University of Portsmouth open day, pop in to the exhibition space in Park Building & see our exhibition! A great example of collaboration at the heart of the Univ. Ports History team - incl Mike, who co-produced this exhibition! 👇 x.com/RWLDproject/st…

Nice blog post about our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts exhibition, on display at the University of Portsmouth from tomorrow! Pop into Park Building (near the Guildhall), King Henry I St, to see it - open M-Th 9-7 & F 9-6: all welcome! Univ. Ports History history.port.ac.uk/?p=3653

Oh, look! History in practice ... another design/ tech we've done before, coming back around, here on environmental & economic grounds. The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on - BBC News share.google/4shumvYj8gUQ6c…

Just had the loveliest comment from someone we've been working with: 'When folk like me pass on, the railway history would have been lost had it not been for your delving into the past & being able to make links with the present.' Wow. That means a lot. #Railway200 railway200

NEW SEMINAR! 'The Station Master’s Railway: Self-Representation & the Moral Life of Infrastructure' Nirali Joshi (Åbo Akademi University) 20 November 2025, 17.30 UK; hybrid Part of the Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar series Book here: history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…