March is Women’s History Month – and so an ideal opportunity for us to return to the women who have so far appeared in our…
We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
We’re pleased to be able to feature another guest contribution, from family historian Enid Rispin looking back at the railway ancestors in her family –…
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…
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…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…
We’re grateful to Ian Strugnell for this guest blog post. Ian is a member of the Great Eastern Railway Society, and got in touch after…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…