This week’s blog post is by guest author Jennifer Bromfield. Via her family history, we can see that she is a part of a ‘railway…
Before we launched our trade union dataset (details here), we started to publicise what was coming. In response to our Tweet about one of the…
In this guest post, Francis Howcutt recounts the accidental death of Arthur Bott, a brother of his great grandfather. Arthur’s history is an example of…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…
Yesterday’s blog looked at the accident at Holywell Junction on 1 September 1922. The next blog posts will look at the men involved. To be…
Following Monday’s blog post, previous blog contributor Rosie Rowley was inspired to do a bit more research into Frederick Webb, the man at the heart…
Our last 2 blog posts have taken an overview of the new project data (available here, free). This week we’re going to start looking at…
With next week’s new data release, this post from guest author Susan Fabbro is timely. Susan was good enough to put it together for us…
One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics…