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Names still spoken – our new data release
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…
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Death on the Railway in Victorian Peterborough
This week’s guest post links nicely to last week’s, with its focus on Peterborough. Peterborough offers a great window onto death in the past, thanks…
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Suicide Incidents on the Midland Railway, 1895-1901
In this guest blog post, one anonymous project volunteer looks at a very specific aspect noticed in the entries in the volume of one railway…
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Barbara Stainsby: A Munitions Worker to Blame for Her Own Death
Whilst blog posts have largely reflected our project sources and focus, and looked at mainline railways in the UK and Ireland, this doesn’t capture all…
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On Track for Change: North Road Works’ Artificial Limb Bench
We’re delighted to feature this blog post from a team at the Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum. It focuses on a topic of…
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Trespassing Incidents
In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff…
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A local history approach to E Beaumont
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
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An academic approach to E Beaumont
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
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Tracing a railway career pt. 1 – introducing James Stoneman
Many of our blog posts focus on the thing central to our project: railway staff accidents. Increasingly we’re trying to think more broadly about the…
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‘For God’s sake go and stop him’: The Sharnbrook crash, Feburary 1909
Something of a departure for our usual project focus, this week’s blog makes use of an accident report type we don’t usually have reason to…