It’s been a while since we blogged a case from our Great Eastern Railway benevolent fund dataset, so we thought we’d return to it to…
Back in November we released our second set of project data – details of around 500 Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff and former staff, between…
We’ve noted in the past how a great many accidents happened in mundane circumstances, to a single railway worker – and how this obscured the…
Following up on the success of last week’s Transcription Tuesday event – for more on that, see here – this week we’re delighted to offer…
So far in our posts for Disability History Month and focusing on the Great Eastern Railway’s benevolent fund book (see here and here) we’ve looked…
Hot off the press, we’re delighted to say that we’ve just had a favourable ethical opinion on the next project extension. It’s going to bring…
In this guest blog post, Steve Chown outlines the few details he has of his grandfather Jim’s accident on the railways around the time of…
We’re delighted to receive this guest post, contributed by Fiona Forde, one of the people who’ve used our database. Fiona saw our tweet (@RWLDproject) about…
This week’s post comes from a guest contributor, Helen Ford, Manager of the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick – and a staunch…
So far our project has only focused on the accidents railway workers suffered: what happened after that, for them, their families and their communities has…