In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff accidents, it is another topic that has always been rather overlooked in favour of passenger train crashes. Even within our work, it has so far fallen out of scope – […]
Archive | July, 2021
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 […]
Approaching the past, via E Beaumont
By Mike Esbester on July 12, 2021 in Accident reports, Approaches to the past, Blog, Family History, Linking sources, Local History
History and the past has been in the news a fair bit recently – notably controversies over culture wars, statues and how the past is understood, interpreted and presented. Clearly there aren’t static or universal understandings of the past. So how does our approach to the past and the sources we use shape the questions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The project’s 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. How did we approach E Beaumont’s […]
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 Journey – how the story came about
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 and work together more easily. There’s an introduction to this, and the associated posts like this one, here. Having struggled in Lockdown 2 and with the announcement […]
