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…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…