As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
This week’s blog post is another that came about via an enquiry received by the project. Derek, this week’s author, was researching his family history,…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
In this guest post, NRM project volunteer Arthur Moore returns to consider some of the cases he’s encountered when transcribing state accident investigations for the…
In this guest post, project volunteer Stephen Lamb looks at one of the cases he’s transcribed from the records of the Amalgamated Society of Railway…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…