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Did illiteracy kill James Coughlin?
We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
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Learning disabilities in railway disability history
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…
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The Buckley brothers
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…
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Stapleton Road: the aftermath
Yesterday’s blog post looked at what happened in the 1921 Stapleton Road accident on the Great Western Railway (GWR). Today we turn to the institutional…
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John Rigby of Long Buckby Wharf
In today’s guest blog post, Julie G takes us back to a place-based approach. She’s interested in Long Buckby Wharf, in Northants – a transport…
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15 years old, & 2 limbs injured in 3 months
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
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Reading 1914: passengers, workers, family
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
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‘a question whether a man who suffers under this disability should occupy such a position’
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
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A flyaway telegraph message
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…