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Dear All, Hope you're well. Some of you might be interested in a talk I'm giving this time next week, free and online: 5.30pm, Wednesday 25 November, about the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project: *Challenging histories? Collaboration, community & remembering the bits ‘best’ forgotten* As historians, how do we handle sensitive or traumatic pasts? And what happens when we get a variety of researchers involved? In this seminar, I’ll look at how the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project is engaging with different audiences to explore accidents to British and Irish railway workers before 1939. A joint initiative of the Modern Records Centre, National Railway Museum and University of Portsmouth, and working with The National Archives, we’ve been working with teams of volunteers to transcribe and make freely available accident reports. People who wouldn’t see themselves as railway historians have been coming together to get involved – understanding the expertises they bring will be a theme of this seminar, which will provide a forum to think about some of the challenges of researching difficult pasts in a public way. All are welcome, but booking is essential - via: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/challenging-histories-collaboration-community-remembering-bits-best-forgotten For those who can't make it, I believe it will be recorded and made available after the event. All best wishes, Mike -- Dr Mike Esbester Senior Lecturer in History and History Employability Lead University of Portsmouth Please note that I am only employed part-time and there will therefore be a delay before I am able to reply to your email. Thank you for your patience. Associate Editor, *Journal of Transport History <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jth> *@JTransportHist Co-leader, 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk @RWLDproject Latest publication: 'Digital Disasters: Crowd-sourcing the railway accident' in *Transport & its Place in History. Making the Connections <https://www.routledge.com/Transport-and-Its-Place-in-History-Making-the-Connections/Turner/p/book/9780815394174> *(ed. D Turner, Routledge, 2020) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RAILWAY-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=RAILWAY-STUDIES&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/RAILWAY-STUDIES, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/