Before we launched our trade union dataset (details here), we started to publicise what was coming. In response to our Tweet about one of the…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
Sometimes someone is simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. On 30 September 1922, Mrs Quelch was one of those people. Her case…
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…
One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics…
In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
In the past we’ve blogged about individuals appearing in our records but who weren’t employees of railway companies – detailed here, with an overview here.…
In this week’s post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines more of what working on the project involves, and one case from our current…