In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
With next week’s new data release, this post from guest author Susan Fabbro is timely. Susan was good enough to put it together for us…
This blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module.…
Exciting news! We’re gearing up to make our next data release – around 16,000 new records. But we need your help … Provisionally we’re aiming…
We’re delighted to welcome Sandra Gittens back to the project blog this week. Sandra is known for her research on – amongst others – the…
This week’s blog post came about following a talk Mike gave at the U3A Family History Conference in Buxton in September 2019. Mike had a…
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…
Continuing our Disability History Month exploration of the new Great Eastern Railway (GER) data (see last week’s post, here), this week we’re focusing on a…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
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…