Last Saturday, as I arrived home from the U3A Family History Conference, I spotted a discussion on Twitter that was sad to read. Else Churchill,…
There’s never a dull moment for us, but the last couple of weeks have been particularly busy. On top of the usual things, we’ve submitted…
Well – hopefully not your own accidents, but we are interested in any cases of accidents to railway workers in the past about which you…
In this guest post, project supporter Peter Munro looks at a passenger accident from 1914 – what would today be known as a ‘trap and…
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…
Only 6 weeks’ ago we were at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace – and last week we took the project to another family history…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
In this guest blog post, Peter Bloomfield was able to use our database to add further detail to his existing research into North London Railway…
Earlier this week we posted a blog summarising a few thoughts about the recent Family Tree Live event at Alexandra Palace. There was plenty we…
UPDATE: We’ve now added a new post, capturing some of the thoughts of our stand visitors & volunteers – read it here! On Friday…