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Digitised editions

Early issues of The Railway Review, "a weekly newspaper for railwaymen" produced by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and its successor the National Union of Railwaymen, have been digitised to help preserve and provide wider access to the fragile volumes.

The digitised editions cover the following dates:

• July 1880 - Dec 1881 ()
• Jan - Dec 1882 ()
• Jan - Dec 1883 ()
• Jan - Dec 1884 ()
• Jan - Dec 1885 ()
• May - Dec 1886 ()
• Jan - Dec 1887 ()
• Jan - Dec 1888 ()
• Jan - Dec 1889 ()
• Jan - Dec 1890, and Apr 1891 - Dec 1892 (MRC catalogue - and )
• Jan - Dec 1898 ()
• Jan - Dec 1899 ()
• Jan - Dec 1900 ()
• Jan - Dec 1901 ()
• Jan - Dec 1902 ()
• Jan - Dec 1903 ()
• Jan - Dec 1904 ()
• Jan - Dec 1905 ()
• Jan - Dec 1906 ()
• Jan - Dec 1907 ()
• Jan - Dec 1908 ()
• Jan - Dec 1909 ()
• Jan - Dec 1910 ()
• Jan - Dec 1911 ()
• Jan - Dec 1912 ()
• Jan - Dec 1913 ()
• Jan - Dec 1914 ()
• Jan - Dec 1915 ()
• Jan - Dec 1916 ()
• Jan - Dec 1917 ()
• Jan - Dec 1918 ()
• Jan - Dec 1919 ()
• Jan - Dec 1920 ()

Some of the stranger stories from the newspaper are highlighted in . Some of the editions are also included in .

'Battle of Bread': Tales from the Victorian breadline

The first editor of 'Railway Review', James Greenwood, was a 鈥渟ocial explorer鈥� known for his colourful descriptions of working class life in London. Early editions of the NUR newspaper include Greenwood's articles on the urban underclass of the early 1880s - from mudlarks to quack medicine sellers.

First World War cartoons

We have also digitised and made available online cartoons from 'The Railway Review' dating from August 1914 to December 1914. The cartoons, drawn by 'DIN', include satirical comment on railway working conditions and management, wartime social problems (including profiteers and food shortages), the introduction of women workers, the 1918 general election and plans for post-war reconstruction.