In this guest post Norman Gamble, the Archivist of the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS), introduces the Society and its archives – including the great…
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Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
The railways were highly ordered and regulated spaces. They had to be, to ensure they ran and that (for passengers at least) they ran safely.…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…
Last week, Karen and Mike took part in this year’s Gerald Aylmer seminar, a day-long symposium themed around ‘co-production & collaboration in the archive’. Jointly…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
In this guest post, Helena Wojtczak explores fatal accidents to women working on and living around the railway, particularly those women either paid and employed…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
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…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…