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Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, on British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Tweets by Mike Esbester. @RWLDproject@mastodonapp.uk
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@RWLDproject
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project Twitter account! Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering the later 19th & early 20th centuries - all free! Currently over 48,000 cases, with more to come. railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Posed 1930s accident prevention photo, showing a worker standing between tracks, about to be hit by a steam train approaching unseen from behind.
Posed 1920s safety photo, showing a driver near the front of a steam loco as it was moving, warning of the dangers of leaving the cab whilst the engine was travelling.
Posed 1920s safety photo showing a worker having stumbled and fallen in front of a train, as he tried to cross the line.
Infographic showing the number of workers killed and injured on Britain and Ireland's railways and whose accidents were investigated, between 1911 and 1915. This was the first run of data we produced, of around 4000 cases, now hugely expanded.
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Matt Houlbrook
@TricksterPrince
Seems like a great time for UK universities to be ramming through initiatives based on Australian models and working with Australian HE consultancies. If only a few more people could show some nous.
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Save Australian Universities
@SaveAusUnis
THIS: "Cost-cutting, casualisation and ‘ridiculous’ teaching loads are taking a toll on tertiary institutions – and some academics are fighting back" tinyurl.com/ypky32zv
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@RWLDproject
This looks great - from some of Mike's lovely colleagues
@UoP_History
! Pertinent timing too, for the #HAConf23 happening right now!
@1972SHP
#HistoryTeacher
@katiehall1979
@SnelsonH
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Univ. Ports History
@UoP_History
Something for A-level teachers and students... How bad a king was Henry VIII; and what did his subjects do about it? Join @UoP_History @UEA_History @Channel_Talent for an insight4me session this June! channeltalent.co.uk/event/history-
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Robert James
@RobJames68
ONE WEEK TO GO until the abstract submission deadline for 'The Golden Age of Cinema' online conference to be held on 21 July 2023. With a keynote lecture by the excellent
@RMcMnow
and some interesting abstracts already submitted, this looks set to be a really exciting event!
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Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS
@tmartinwalsh
We've extended the deadline to the 19th of May. So there is still time to get your abstract in. @RobJames68 @RMcMnow Retweets greatly appreciated. twitter.com/tmartinwalsh/s…
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Dr William Tullett
@WillTullett
The new government appointed university free speech tsar is a man who thought it appropriate to write a piece titled 'University Needs to Hurt', with the subtitle 'Students should consent to be harmed'. So that's nice, isn't it?
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#OnThisDay 1911 Midland Great Western Railway shunter P Quinn, 43, had his wrist & fingers crushed when coupling wagaon. Member of the ASRS Union (now
@RMTunion
) Claremorris branch, they secured him 11/6 p.w. compensation until he resumed work on 11 August 1911.
Posed staff safety photo, showing a railwayman trying to couple two wagons together but leaving his hand in a dangerous position where it might be injured.
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Erin Beeston
@Erin_bee
Here is one of the
@UoMICP
group's prototypes - a spoken word map of Manchester, with thanks to
@TheJohnRylands
specialist support and colleagues in SEED who introduced them to mapping software
@OfficialUoM
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6740e9
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Erin Beeston
@Erin_bee
Super proud of the brilliant @UoMICP heritage students this morning for coming up with spectacular prototype projects to safeguard Manchester's Intangible Cultural Heritage. They proposed projects on Manchester's spoken literary culture & 19th C Ballads
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Maria Cannon
@_mariacannon
Some of my students have been doing great work with
@PortsCityMuseum
's new #EndangeredCrafts exhibition. Check out their twitter takeover today - and if you're in Portsmouth head to the museum to see their research panel in the exhibition (coming soon!).
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Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery
@PortsCityMuseum
🚨Twitter Takeover🚨 We welcome Loraya, Chanel, and Gemma. Second year history students at @portsmouthuni @UoP_History to discuss all things Endangered Crafts! #EndangeredCrafts #HeritageCrafts #CraftsRedList2023
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@RWLDproject
This is great to see - work done by 3 of my fabulous
@UoP_History
students, Loraya, Chanel & Gemma: go them! It's part of our core 2nd yr module, 'Working with the Past', which involves working with external partners, & enhances employability. #ProudTutor #Twitterstorians
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Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery
@PortsCityMuseum
🚨Twitter Takeover🚨 We welcome Loraya, Chanel, and Gemma. Second year history students at @portsmouthuni @UoP_History to discuss all things Endangered Crafts! #EndangeredCrafts #HeritageCrafts #CraftsRedList2023
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Do come along to this - Emily and her research are fantastic!
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Univ. Ports History
@UoP_History
ONE WEEK TODAY: 17 May, 5-6:30pm (UK time): History Research Seminar with PhD researcher Emily Burgess. Emily will present on 'London’s female gangsters: press responses and gendered implications 1890-1940'. Interested? Sign up using this Eventbrite link eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-fema
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Univ. Ports History
@UoP_History
Excellent to see work being led from within our team being recognised! The Railway Work, Life & Death project (
@RWLDproject
) is co-led by Dr Mike Esbester. It's a great example of the collaborative work that our team does, as well as the huge interest in our research beyond HE.
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Alastair Dalton
@AlastairDalton
NEW in @scotonsunday: Horrific historic death toll of Scottish teenage rail workers added to online memorial database @RWLDproject scotsman.com/heritage-and-r
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Bristol Times
@Bristol_Times
Morning. It's May 11 1985 and we are admiring the floral display at Weston-super-Mare station. Station staff say they have been receiving compliments from passengers, and even letters and phone calls for the flowers. Pupils from a local special school help with the gardening.
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@RWLDproject
#OnThisDay 1918 GWR track workers C Drayton, FW House & W Bennett were hit by a train at #Slough & killed. Members of the NUR (now
@RMTunion
), the Union represented them at the coroner's inquest. It also secured their families £300 compensation each (c.£15,500 now).
Posed photograph of a gang of 6 track workers, with a 'look-out' keeping watch for approaching trains.
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Brodie Waddell
@Brodie_Waddell
How did work shape people’s identity before industrial capitalism?
@mark_hailwood
and I have a new piece out in
@RoyalHistSoc
trying to make sense of the important recent research on this question. It's short and #OpenAccess, so you can read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/
Abstract: How did work shape people's identity before industrial capitalism? It is a question that early modernists have never really got to grips with. Thanks to decades of research by social and cultural historians, we now have a much better understanding of how people in the past saw themselves and labelled those around them. But until recently scholars of early modern England have had surprisingly little to say about how a person's working life – their occupation, trade, vocation or livelihood – influenced their social identity. This essay is therefore an attempt to synthesise recent research on the subject into a more explicit historiographical intervention. Early modernists need to broaden their research to consider ‘working identities’ as a whole, rather than merely the narrower concept of ‘occupational identities’. ...
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Katie Hall
@katiehall1979
Any journalist who isn’t making this absolutely clear to their audience should be ashamed of themselves.
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Channel 4 News
@Channel4News
"They're not asylum shoppers they're asylum seekers... That's not true." @krishgm challenges immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he claims "asylum shoppers" should seek sanctuary in the first safe country they reach under the "Refugee Convention".
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