Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…
This is our last post for Explore your Archive week (see the previous post here) – next week we’ll be returning to our usual weekly…
As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
This week is ‘Explore your Archive’ week, an initiative of The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association. It’s designed to raise awareness of…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
In the cases we’ve highlighted so far on this blog, one type of railway worker has been absent: the workshop or factory employee. These were…
We’ve been trying to get an update on the blog once a week since we made the spreadsheet available, drawing on the volunteers’ work and…