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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…

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    Female gatekeepers killed by trains 1846-1906.

    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…