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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…
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Data Analysis and Issues
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…
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Use of Databases and Statistics in Historical Research
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…
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The Tragedy of Lilian Daisy Gale
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
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Irish Accident Records – untapped potential
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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From Gofa to Warden Law – the Death of a Ranter
Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
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Illicit travel
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.…
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Dying for a wee – 2
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…
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Co-production & collaboration in the archive
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…
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Volunteers’ Week 5: The fatal dangers of shunting
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…