One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics we’re exposed to – as in today’s guest blog post: another surprise that the apparently mundane topic of railway accidents has thrown up. There’s another aspect to the directions the […]
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A Railway Accident at Strensall: The Case of George Hey
By Sally-Anne Shearn on October 25, 2021 in Accident aftermath, Blog, Disability, Family History, Guest contribution, Health, Linking sources, Medical humanities
In another one of those fortuitous encounters – in this case, virtually, on Twitter – we ended up in contact with the author of today’s guest blog post, Sally-Anne Shearn. We were invited in to hear a railway-related talk at the Family History Society of Cheshire (with thanks to Margaret Roberts); Sally-Anne made a comment […]
Ten Men Memorial, at Queensbury Tunnel
This week’s guest post seems fitting, coming after last week’s look at the 1921 Stapleton Road accident and thinking about how we remember those who have been killed or injured at work on the railways. Typically we focus on the operational years, rather than construction – but here the post, from the Queensbury Tunnel Society, […]
A local history approach to E Beaumont
By Kathrina Perry on July 18, 2021 in Approaches to the past, Blog, Guest contribution, Local 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 can better understand each other and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts like this one, here. Having previously researched bus services in Northamptonshire […]
A family history approach to E Beaumont
By Natalie Pithers on July 12, 2021 in Approaches to the past, Blog, Family History, Guest contribution
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 can better understand each other and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts like this one, here. On reading the scant details regarding […]
How stories from the past can help build a safer present
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 can better understand each other and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts like this one, here. ‘Those who cannot remember the past […]
The Journey
by Stephen Foster You can download the story here as a PDF. Our particular thanks to Stephen for writing this and for allowing us to share it. This is one of a series of posts exploring how different people might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better understand each other […]
An academic approach to E Beaumont
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 can better understand each other and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts like this one, here. I suspect that all of the […]
A project blog post: Goods guard Beaumont
By Mike Esbester on July 12, 2021 in Accident reports, Approaches to the past, Blog, Linking sources
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 understand each other and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts, here. We know that the railways were complex, messy places – physically, […]
The Bullhouse Railway Accident
By Mark Greenwood on May 31, 2021 in Accident aftermath, Accident reports, Blog, Guest contribution, Linking sources, Passenger
In this post, guest author Mark Greenwood looks at a passenger accident from 1884, which went on to have an interesting ‘afterlife’ in various forms of cultural production. He looks at how a mechanical fault led to the crash at Bullhouse, in Yorkshire – but also the part that the geography of the site played. […]
