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Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.

#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
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Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project Bluesky account!

Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering 1855-1939 - all free!

Currently over 117,000 cases, with more to come.

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#DisabilityHistoryMonth starts today!

The Railway Work, Life & Death project is an important resource for understanding occupational disability in the past, via the railways.

Read more about just a few of the people whose life stories we've explored:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk?s=disability
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November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Huge thanks to our friends @balhnews.bsky.social for allowing us to reblog this (and, as ever, to Sarah for all her efforts).
Reflections on launching a landmark volume for us, being our 250th and the very first for Westmorland from our wonderful colleague and friend, Sarah Rose.

In this blog, Sarah looks back on the processes of research, writing, and collaboration in the context of VCH Cumbria and its work. 🗃️
Bringing the VCH to Westmorland: Launching Lonsdale Ward, the First Red Book for Cumbria - On History
In this blogpost, Dr Sarah Rose, Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Cumbria, describes the milestone achievement of producing Westmorland volume I, Lonsdale Ward. This is...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Today’s the day! There’s still time to book your spot and join us tonight at 7pm to hear from @rwldproject.bsky.social, Alan Roblin, and Neil Spurgeon all about #Hampshire railway workers

Register here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/findi...

#RailwayHistory @railway200.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🚨 TOMORROW! 🚨

'Finding Hampshire's railway workers'
Wednesday 19 November, 7pm, online

A talk for @harchivestrust.bsky.social, coming from our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project!

#Railway200

More details & booking here:

hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/findi...
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Looking forward to tonight's reception at the Watercress Line!

Lovely to have been invited, and a great chance to cement the developing relationship, as we do more work with them in 2026: watch this space!

#Railway200 #RailwayHistory
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Interested in #Hampshire #LocalHistory and #RailwayHistory 🚂? Join us this Wednesday at 7pm to hear from @rwldproject.bsky.social, Alan Roblin, and Neil Spurgeon all about Hampshire’s Railway Workers!

Tell one and all and register here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/findi...
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
THIS WEEK!

The next in the @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar series - Thursday 20 November, 5.30pm.

Still time to register to attend (online or in person) - follow the link below!

#Railway200 #TransportHistory #RailwayHistory
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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…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A MONTH LEFT!

Make sure you see our co-produced #Railway200 exhibition, 'The south coast's forgotten railway workers', whilst it's at the University of Portsmouth - until 17 December 2025!

There's more on the exhibition here:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Looking forward to the great British tradition of going to the school fireworks display in the rain, tonight.

Going one better, it's a named storm. Why not?

Will they cancel ... nope. We're made of sterner stuff ...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Getting ready for a trial run of the presentation this afternoon, so we can make sure we're coordinated & keep to time!

Have enjoyed putting together my parts - a nice chance to think about our project!

#Railway200 @harchivestrust.bsky.social

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🚨 NEXT WEEK! 🚨

'Finding Hampshire's railway workers'
Wednesday 19 November, 7pm, online

A talk for @harchivestrust.bsky.social, coming from our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project!

#Railway200

More details & booking here:

hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/findi...
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Overtaken by steam: George Overton & The Railway

Join Stephen K Jones & Stephen Rowson on 24 Nov 2pm to discover more about George Overton, South Wales civil engineer, and his work on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Book your FREE place:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/glamorgan-ar...
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Can someone PLEASE explain to me how it is that - having been surrounded by calm & quiet for the whole day - at exactly the point I sit down to record a podcast, the world & their dog decide THAT'S the time to make a shed-load of noise?

I mean, seriously?! 🙄😡
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Alt: Dr Evil from Austin Powers, a bald man in a gray suit, is sitting in a chair saying 'shhhhh...'
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November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚨 NEXT WEEK! 🚨

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar is on Thursday 20 November - details (including booking) below!

#Railway200 #RailwayHistory

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OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)
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…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This looks great! Just the sort of collaboration our project likes to see - well done all involved 👏

V jealous of whoever gets them - wish this had been available after my PhD!

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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.

Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 NEXT WEEK! 🚨

'Finding Hampshire's railway workers'
Wednesday 19 November, 7pm, online

A talk for @harchivestrust.bsky.social, coming from our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project!

#Railway200

More details & booking here:

hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/findi...
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨

Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!

‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online

#LocalHistory #Railway200

www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ahead of 11am, a re-post for 1 of the Railway Work, Life & Death project's blog posts about railwaymen who fought & died in the #FirstWorldWar.

#ArmisticeDay #Remembrance #Railway200 #RailwayHistory

The post looks at TH Stearn's life & death:
Thomas Henry Stearn: injured at work, died at war - Railway Work, Life & Death
Blog post looking at Thomas Stearn's 1915 accident at work in Cambridge & his death in the First World War.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Well worth coming along to this public lecture if you can make it - from my @uophistory.bsky.social friend & colleague, @karlbell.bsky.social!

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Join me for 'Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea', a public talk @ Portsmouth University on 3rd February (5.30-7 pm). It is free, but you need to book a place @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tidal-terr...
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Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea
Public lecture: The real life lessons from supernatural stories of the sea.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Great to be working on the new @uophistory.bsky.social 2nd year module 'Age of Crisis'!

Had a good team meeting yesterday, with the excellent @robtjames.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social & @drmseiter.bsky.social. It's a pleasure to co-teach with them - we've got lots to share with our students!
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚨 DON'T MISS IT 🚨

Our #Railway200 exhibition, 'Finding the south coast's forgotten railway workers', is on at the University of Portsmouth - till 17 December.

Pop into Park Building (King Henry I Street) - free, whenever the building is open:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...
Finding the south coast’s forgotten railway workers - Railway Work, Life & Death
Read about our public exhibition, showcasing research from the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project - out now.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 DON'T MISS IT 🚨

Our #Railway200 exhibition, 'Finding the south coast's forgotten railway workers', is on at the University of Portsmouth - till 17 December.

Pop into Park Building (King Henry I Street) - free, whenever the building is open:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...
Finding the south coast’s forgotten railway workers - Railway Work, Life & Death
Read about our public exhibition, showcasing research from the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project - out now.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM