Being employed on the Victorian railway would always mean long hours, as with most other jobs of the period. Kingsford argued that ‘in the ...

Mid-way through last year, I looked at the first sixteen female ledger clerks employed at the London and North Western Railway’s (L&NWR)...

One of the questions that I ask in my PhD is how exactly did people get promoted into managerial positions within the London and South Weste...

There is no doubt that before 1914, on average, railwaywomen earned less than their male colleagues. However, the wage gap between the gende...

In my last post I discussed research I have been doing on  professions that the earliest railway workers had before they joined the London ...

Sometimes as a historian you come across single documents that shed light on a whole subject, and this happened to me today. When browsing s...

In the last post ( here ) I looked at the first sixteen women to be employed in clerical positions on Britain’s railways between 1874 and 18...

I recently wrote about the first fifteen female clerks appointed by the London and North Western Railway’s (L&NWR) at its Curzon Street ...

Britain’s railways have two stories that run like a thread through them. On the one hand, there were the events that took place in the head ...

It is generally understood that in the late Victorian period most individuals started their railway careers shortly after leaving school. Ho...

In my PhD research I have focussed on how individuals’ became London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) clerks through the sitting of an...