OldRailwayAccidents

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. railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

#ICYMI - our new blog post, for #BlackHistoryMonth, is out! 👇 bsky.app/profile/rwld...

Many thanks to our friends at @rwldproject.bsky.social for this fabulous piece of research 👏 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/black-histor...

Great to see @mariacannon.bsky.social & @uophistory.bsky.social students Mel, Evelyn & Serena sharing their research on women of the 'Mary Rose' at today's Faculty Best Practice Showcase! This came from their 'Working with the Past' module, & was shared publicly at the 'Our Naval City' festival!

Good morning #Portsmouth #WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next Tuesday we host the Society's 2026 Public History Lecture with @greshamcollege.bsky.social: 6pm on Tuesday 3 November. We welcome Sathnam Sanghera who will speak on ‘What History is NOT’ bit.ly/4smNxZc In person attendance is now fully booked but online remains available #Skystorians

Absolutely fascinating read from our friends at @rwldproject.bsky.social for #BlackHistoryMonth concerning one of our members. www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/black-histor...

10 IF OWNER NOT EQUAL "CHURCH OF ENGLAND" GOTO 40 20 PRINT "It's the Church" 30 STOP 40 PRINT "It's the Duke of Westminster" 50 STOP

Today we also posted on the work of Prof Wendy Davies, an RHS Workshop Grant recipient in 2026. Wendy's project is a study, with colleagues, of ‘Making and Moving Consumables in Early Medieval Europe: From the Local to the Wider World’ bit.ly/4iJfnLN #Skystorians

PHP issue resolved! With typical bad-timing, the Railway Work, Life & Death project website disappeared right when we were hoping to share it with people (for an event on Friday). But we're back now ... and there's more coming soon! 😀 Massive thanks to University of Portsmouth technical support!

Kudos to UCU for securing a Westminster Hall debate on Higher Education funding, led by Sheffield Central MP Abtisam Mohamed, on the morning of the budget announcement. It's 28 October 9:30-11:00am.

Commuters want Severn Valley steam train trial to continue - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apropos of current university redundancies and current interest in preserving freedom of speech at universities, it's worth asking whether staff at any English universities who are being made "voluntarily" redundant are also being required to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Signalman retires after 38 years controlling unique rail bridge - BBC News share.google/DzksWBeV3qRq...

Looking forward to this - tonight! 👇

Interesting story about workplace dangers in the shipping industry. 'Unsinkable' man's watch offers rare insight into four ship tragedies - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 Watch out!🚨 The blog's about to get busy ... In preparation for the opening (next week!) of our Railway Work, Life & Death exhibition at project partners @mrcwarwick.bsky.social, over the coming days we're going to be posting lots of life stories to the project blog! @rmtunion.bsky.social

IHR-RHS DC Thomson Applied History Fellowships launch today. Scheme for UK-based recent post-1500 British or Irish History PhDs, providing a 6-month bursary of £12,250 to expand their career opportunities while applying their historical skills in a workplace. #Skystorians

GRANTS FOR PUBLICATIONS ON LANCASHIRE OR CHESHIRE HISTORY Up to £500 for publications (inc electronic) on the history of anywhere within Lancs or Cheshire (original counties, i.e. inc. Wirral, Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire Lakeland, etc.) Deadline: 31 October. www.hslc.org.uk/grants-prize...

Book history people! Please apply to come and work with @ies-sas.bsky.social! Tell your friends to apply! We are a lovely team and this is an exciting opportunity to join us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨 CLOSING THIS WEEKEND!🚨 Pop in and see it if you're in #Emsworth (or make a special visit!) - on until Sunday 18 October! #Hampshire #LocalHistory #RailwayHistory 👇 bsky.app/profile/rwld...

Yesterday @ihr.bsky.social launched a wide range of funding opportunities for historians. They include, with @royalhistsoc.org, calls for 2x Applied History Fellowships, 2027 and 2x PhD Fellowships for 2027-28. Full details of these and other current RHS calls: bit.ly/4Bfjsic #Skystorians

🚨 NEXT WEEK🚨 Pleased to be supporting Hampshire Community Rail Partnership's #BlackHistoryMonth event at #Portsmouth & #Southsea station on 23 October! 6-8pm - plenty going on, including @chris56cornell.bsky.social talking about his grandfather, Charlie! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...

Exquisite

Display thinking's evolved a bit ... going up to @mrcwarwick.bsky.social today to do some in-person checking. The Railway Work, Life & Death project exhibition is getting closer to being a reality - focused on the @rmtunion.bsky.social's records. Opening later this month! bsky.app/profile/rwld...

Judging by the messages I received last night, it looks like Rose Ayling-Ellis's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on repeat last night! Why message me? Well ... spoiler alert: it might have had a railway worker accident aspect. More here! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/james-wellan...

When the York and Scarborough #Railway reached the small village of #Rillington in 1845, it transformed far more than transport. @rwldproject.bsky.social #OnePlaceStudy sog.org.uk/gold-library...

Display thinking's evolved a bit ... going up to @mrcwarwick.bsky.social today to do some in-person checking. The Railway Work, Life & Death project exhibition is getting closer to being a reality - focused on the @rmtunion.bsky.social's records. Opening later this month! bsky.app/profile/rwld...

A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses

Excited to share that my new book is available for preorder via @uncpress.bsky.social (coming out March 2027). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! uncpress.org/979889088799...

The DfE line is particularly and bleakly consistent

Meet some of our Steering Group who are guiding our oral history project: Members of the African and Caribbean community - Marie, Julian, Sandra, Arlene, Eldica, and Leroy, Jo from the Royal Navy Museums and Jodi from @uophistory.bsky.social. Also Sarah, our Oral History manager.

Looking forward to a busy day today: - Masters dissertation marking discussion - undergrad dissertation supervision - catching up with friends from the @uophistory.bsky.social team - meeting a #RailwayHistory interested 1st year - running a School-wide #FamilyHistory session - a lecture. Phew.

Reminders that this is happening THIS FRIDAY! We'll be joined by the wonderful @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) and we'll talk about the toolkit, the project and what's next for The Ethics of Medical Photography network. Register here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Always nice, when revisiting last year's notes from a lecture I'm giving again this year - tomorrow - to find a message to future me: 'rushed a bit at the end, but really enjoyed the lecture!' Looking forward to tomorrow ... now to get rid of the rush at the end!

‼️New blog post‼️ Interested in #Hampshire #RailwayHistory 🚂? Learn about the latest from @rwldproject.bsky.social & the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project! Collaborating with the Havant Local History Group, the team have brought more stories to light⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...

'Graduates post screenshots of student loan balances that never seem to go down, ministers spend every August reminding school leavers that there are other options, and the phrase “Mickey Mouse degrees” never quite dies.'

Good morning #Portsmouth Welcome to the new working week #MondayMotivation

Still two weekends to go - pop in and see it if you're in #Emsworth (or make a special visit!). On until Sunday 18 October! #Hampshire #LocalHistory #RailwayHistory 👇 bsky.app/profile/rwld...