March is Women’s History Month, and once again is a good opportunity for our project to reflect on where women appear in our work. This…
Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
This week’s blog post looks at where disability appears in our project database for Welsh railway workers. It’s one of our posts marking Disability History…
This year, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Established in 1973, it has specialised in records of…
One of the main causes of injury or fatality frequently recorded in the RWLD database is by ‘misadventure’. However, as anyone who has explored the…
So far we’ve largely confined ourselves to the cases found in our database, to give you more detail on a small – but increasing –…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
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…