This week we have another guest post from Philip James, part of the NRM team and our most prolific blog contributor – read his other…
We’re pleased to be able to feature another guest post, from another person the project has been able to help. John contacted us via our…
History and the past has been in the news a fair bit recently – notably controversies over culture wars, statues and how the past is…
In this post, we’re delighted to welcome guest author Michael Davis. Michael volunteers in a number of railway-related ways, as becomes clear in his post…
In this post, guest author Mark Greenwood looks at a passenger accident from 1884, which went on to have an interesting ‘afterlife’ in various forms…
This guest post breaks new ground for the project – by focusing on the experiences of railway staff, written in their own words. As he…
We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
In this guest post, NRM project volunteer Arthur Moore returns to consider some of the cases he’s encountered when transcribing state accident investigations for the…
In her research, Sandra Gittins has already turned up a couple of cases of accidents to railway staff serving overseas during World War One –…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…