In the final part of this run of blog posts, NRM volunteer Philip James puts into context one of the cases he found when transcribing…
From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
As we’ve noted in the past, the railway companies didn’t just run trains – their interests extended much further. As a result, they employed all…
People are absolutely central to our project. Thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, we’re able to get at the individuals behind the big…
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…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
Following up on the success of last week’s Transcription Tuesday event – for more on that, see here – this week we’re delighted to offer…
In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…