We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…
Continuing our Disability History Month exploration of the new Great Eastern Railway (GER) data (see last week’s post, here), this week we’re focusing on a…
In this week’s post, we welcome a contribution from Pete Coveney. He was put on to us by long-time project friend and support, genealogist Jackie…
We were delighted to receive an email from this week’s guest author, Derek Savage, offering further information on one of the more intriguing cases from…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
For this week’s post, we’re delighted to have another contribution from Helen Ford, the project co-lead at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. One…
In this guest post, Linda Whitaker has kindly written up the death of one of her ancestors, Jonathan Rogers. His accident was one of the…
In this guest blog post, Sue Page looks at the life & death of her Great Grandfather and the impact it had on his family…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
We’re delighted to feature this guest post, from Rebecca Wynter, one of the team working on the excellent ‘Forged by Fire’ project, looking at burns…