We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
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Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…
Our last 2 blog posts have taken an overview of the new project data (available here, free). This week we’re going to start looking at…
Yesterday’s blog post looked at what happened in the 1921 Stapleton Road accident on the Great Western Railway (GWR). Today we turn to the institutional…
In today’s guest blog post, Julie G takes us back to a place-based approach. She’s interested in Long Buckby Wharf, in Northants – a transport…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…