UPDATE: We’ve now added a new post, capturing some of the thoughts of our stand visitors & volunteers – read it here! On Friday…
Back in November we released our second set of project data – details of around 500 Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff and former staff, between…
We’re delighted to say we’re going to be at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace later this month – and we want to see you…
We’ve noted in the past how a great many accidents happened in mundane circumstances, to a single railway worker – and how this obscured the…
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…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…
March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. We wanted to provide you with a quick update…