Who were Frederick Fenney, Percy Masterman and George Way? Do the communities in which they lived and worked remember them, over 100 years after they…
Next week we’re heading north – sufficiently so that there aren’t any railways that feature in the project. We’re off to Shetland and Orkney, off…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
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…