The programme for indoor meetings Winter 2024/25

Non-members are welcome at the meetings but please contact the Indoor meeting coordinator so we are aware of likely numbers.

Indoor Meeting coordinator, John Lonergan

The meetings will commence at 14:00.

Refreshments
Refreshments will be available from the hotel bar/restaurant at normal rates.

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Saturday 15th February 2025.
Dr Mike Esbester:
Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project and railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939.


Location
Clayton Hotel, Cardiff CF10 1GD.
(next to Cardiff Central station)
For further information about the hotel >>

Time
14:00 - 17:00

Speaker
Dr Mike Esbester Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, and one of the co-leads of the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project. There’s more on the RWLD website.

In this talk I’ll introduce railway staff accidents and the dangers of railway work before the Second World War. I’ll discuss the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project, which is documenting employee accidents in Britain and Ireland before 1939, and the various resources it offers for railway historians. I’ll pay particular attention to south Wales, focusing on a forthcoming update to the RWLD database which will add around 55,000 Welsh cases into the project’s resources.

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