We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest blog post from Neil Gordon – it’s always heartening to receive contributions, but this is…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’, our project made available a set of records produced by the Amalgamated Society…
In our project we’re used to looking at the reports produced by the accident investigators of 100 or so years ago (see this blog post,…
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…