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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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OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another nice thing from last week's @uophistory.bsky.social graduation - in the ceremony booklet, under the 'Faculty highlights' for the year, Railway Work, Life & Death project research was featured! More on work with the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/delivering-t...

Graduation ceremony booklet, A5-size, glossy card cover in two-tone purple, with University of Portsmouth crest and ceremony details.Open booklet, detailing highlights from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for 2025-26, showing text and images.Focus on one section of text, reading 'Connecting people with the past. Researchers from the School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature contributed to celebrations marking the National Railway Museum's 50th anniversary. Their research helped bring new perspectives to the story of railway workers and their experiences, demonstrating how humanities research can deepen understanding of the past while shaping how heritage is shared with future generations. As we celebrate the achievements of our graduating class, these successes reflect a Faulty committed to helping students reach their potential and creating knowledge that makes a difference to the world.'
OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · last wk.

CONGRATULATIONS! To all the brilliant @uophistory.bsky.social students graduating today - your hard work is being recognised: enjoy your day! It's been a pleasure to teach you over the last 3 years - thank you, & now onwards & upwards for you! All best wishes for your next steps!

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 2d ago

Great to see this live! A new family-focused trail at Southsea Castle, created by 4 of our excellent @uophistory.bsky.social 2nd year students, Madi, Charlie, Magdalena & Ben! 😃👏 On over the summer holidays - go & give it a try (suitable for kids of all ages!). www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

University of Portsmouth students create interactive experience at local landmark

University of Portsmouth students team up with Southsea Castle to create a user-friendly trail to bring history to life.

port.ac.uk

Univ. Portsmouth History@uophistory.bsky.social · 2d ago

We've got such great students and they do such amazing things. Well done all involved, including @mariacannon.bsky.social who supported the students along the way 👏

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 2d ago

Great to see this live! A new family-focused trail at Southsea Castle, created by 4 of our excellent @uophistory.bsky.social 2nd year students, Madi, Charlie, Magdalena & Ben! 😃👏 On over the summer holidays - go & give it a try (suitable for kids of all ages!). www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 2d ago

Great to see this live! A new family-focused trail at Southsea Castle, created by 4 of our excellent @uophistory.bsky.social 2nd year students, Madi, Charlie, Magdalena & Ben! 😃👏 On over the summer holidays - go & give it a try (suitable for kids of all ages!). www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

University of Portsmouth students create interactive experience at local landmark

University of Portsmouth students team up with Southsea Castle to create a user-friendly trail to bring history to life.

port.ac.uk

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another nice thing from last week's @uophistory.bsky.social graduation - in the ceremony booklet, under the 'Faculty highlights' for the year, Railway Work, Life & Death project research was featured! More on work with the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/delivering-t...

Graduation ceremony booklet, A5-size, glossy card cover in two-tone purple, with University of Portsmouth crest and ceremony details.Open booklet, detailing highlights from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for 2025-26, showing text and images.Focus on one section of text, reading 'Connecting people with the past. Researchers from the School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature contributed to celebrations marking the National Railway Museum's 50th anniversary. Their research helped bring new perspectives to the story of railway workers and their experiences, demonstrating how humanities research can deepen understanding of the past while shaping how heritage is shared with future generations. As we celebrate the achievements of our graduating class, these successes reflect a Faulty committed to helping students reach their potential and creating knowledge that makes a difference to the world.'
OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · last wk.

CONGRATULATIONS! To all the brilliant @uophistory.bsky.social students graduating today - your hard work is being recognised: enjoy your day! It's been a pleasure to teach you over the last 3 years - thank you, & now onwards & upwards for you! All best wishes for your next steps!

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 5d ago

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 5d ago

TODAY! 11.30 & 14.00 - meet at the Enquiry Office, by the engine shed. Walking tour of Didcot Railway Centre, focusing on its staff before 1939. #SocialHistory #RailwayHistory #Heritage 👇

OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)

🚨THIS SATURDAY! 🚨 1 August 2026 Come along and find out more about the men & women who kept Didcot & the Great Western Railway moving before 1939. Tours at 11.30 and 14.00 - meet at the Enquiry…

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OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 7d ago

🚨THIS SATURDAY! 🚨 1 August 2026 Come along and find out more about the men & women who kept Didcot & the Great Western Railway moving before 1939. Tours at 11.30 and 14.00 - meet at the Enquiry Office, near the engine shed. Free once you're on site! 👇

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨IT'S BACK!🚨 Following last year's success, join us on a FREE walking tour exploring Didcot Railway Centre's historic staff, via their accidents. Meet at the engine shed on Sunday 5 July, 11.00 or 14.00. Hear about fitter Frank Coxon, carriage cleaner Mabel Elliot, driver Ernest Edmonds & more!

One side of a tri-fold leaflet, showing front and rear covers, plus inside page, with details of Railway Work, Life & Death project, and its research into railway workers & their accidents at Didcot in the pre-preservation era.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · last wk.

Most of us - literally, most of us - are only alive because of 150 years of the modern regulation of consumer safety…

Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · last wk.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

theguardian.com

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3w ago

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

TWO WEEKS TODAY! The next walking tours of Didcot Railway Centre will be on Saturday 1 August. Come along & find out more about the men & women who kept Didcot & the Great Western Railway moving. Meet at the Enquiry Office at 11.30 and 14.00 - all free once you're on site. 👇

OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨IT'S BACK!🚨 Following last year's success, join us on a FREE walking tour exploring Didcot Railway Centre's historic staff, via their accidents. Meet at the engine shed on Sunday 5 July, 11.00 or 14.00. Hear about fitter Frank Coxon, carriage cleaner Mabel Elliot, driver Ernest Edmonds & more!

One side of a tri-fold leaflet, showing front and rear covers, plus inside page, with details of Railway Work, Life & Death project, and its research into railway workers & their accidents at Didcot in the pre-preservation era.
OldRailwayAccidents@rwldproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

Off to #Crewe today! Neatly fitting in two related tasks - photographing volume 2 of Crewe Works accident records in the early 1920s, & meeting with colleagues to discuss how we share the stories of the people in those records. All of this coming into the project in the future - watch this space!