It’s done! Today we release another c.69,000 records of railway staff accidents into the Railway Work, Life & Death project database – available here, for…
This week’s post is a one of two halves. We’re starting with a request – hopefully you can help! We’re really keen to hear from…
So far most of the details in our database have focused on the accidents that British and Irish railway workers had before 1939. They’ve been…
Over the course of our project work, we’ve done a lot. However, that’s only scratched the surface of the broad topic of railway worker accidents.…
Six months ago, we added an extra 17,000 records to our project database. Since then we’ve been promoting the database and trying to ensure people…
Last week we launched our enhanced dataset of Railway Inspectorate staff accident investigations. We added a further 17,000 records to the existing database, available here,…
Over the years, many people have toyed with the idea that we don’t fully die until we are forgotten. We hope that with our free…
Exciting news! We’re gearing up to make our next data release – around 16,000 new records. But we need your help … Provisionally we’re aiming…
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…
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…