Date: June 10thCategory: Civil Rights | Hidden British Histories | Travel as Protest When we think of Freedom Riders, we often picture America:Greyhound buses. Deep South states. Students refusing to move. But Britain had its own version of these stories…
Date: June 9thCategory: Black British History | Labour & Civil Rights | Hidden Figures They carried bags, served tea, and pressed uniforms — but they also carried dignity, defiance, and demands for justice. Today, The Time Traveller’s Guild shares the…
Date: June 7thCategory: Irish History | Anti-Colonial Resistance | Railway Warfare To the British Empire, the railways in Ireland were a symbol of progress.To Irish revolutionaries, they were an opportunity.By the time the Irish War of Independence was in full…
Date: June 5thCategory: Hidden Histories | Class & Transport | Early Passenger Resistance Before there were fare dodgers, there were fare fighters.Before angry tweets about delayed trains, there were full-blown riots on the platforms. Throughout the 19th and early 20th…
Date: June 4thCategory: Working-Class History | Industrial Resistance | Railways & Labour They dug the tunnels.They blasted the rock.They laid the tracks that stitched a nation together — and most of them never got so much as a headstone. They…
Date: June 3rdCategory: Cultural History | Radical Childhoods | Fiction Meets Reality Wave a petticoat at a passing train and you might just save a life — or spark a resistance. Today, we’re taking a fresh look at The Railway…
Date: June 2ndCategory: Hidden Histories | Victorian Travel | Print & Protest It was the 19th-century’s answer to Google Maps — dense, complex, oddly thrilling — and capable of whisking passengers, parcels, or political pamphlets across Britain with clockwork precision.…
Date: June 1stCategory: Series Launch | Railway History | Travel & Resistance They were never just trains.They were escape routes, battlegrounds, printing presses on wheels, and tools of empire and defiance alike.And this month, we’re riding the rails through some…
Date: May 30thCategory: Reflection | Celebration | Historical Round-Up We began with bonfires and ended with book clubs.We met martyrs, messengers, makers, and myth-breakers.And together, we spent 30 days travelling through history’s greatest rebellions — and finding their echoes in…
Date: May 29thCategory: Everyday Resistance | Practical Action | Living History Resistance isn’t just for the battlefield, the ballot box, or the barricade.It’s in your shopping list.Your bookshelf.Your embroidery hoop.Your inbox. Today, as The Time Traveller’s Guild approaches the final…
