What questions should the project be asking? What sources should we be bringing into it? How would you want to get involved? What research would you do into railway staff accidents and ill-health if you were starting out? We’ve started with some big questions, because they’re important. We’ve always tried to be collaborative in our […]
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Project work – and an accident at Chadwell Heath
By Philip James on June 8, 2020 in Accident reports, Blog, Guest contribution, Linking sources, Local History, Non-company employee
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 extension, covering the Board of Trade inspectors’ reports for 1900-1910. Philip has been working on the project since we started in 2016, so must now have seen well over a […]
Researching railway worker accidents – together
In the past 15 or so years, the academic community has become much more attuned to the value of collaboration with individuals and organisations beyond the higher education sector. Arguably, what has actually taken place is a formal recognition of the importance of work that has for a long time been carried out across this […]
35,000 records from The National Archives!
Previous blog posts have already discussed the 2 project extensions in place at the National Railway Museum, here and here. But that’s not all we’ve been working on. With the support of The National Archives, we’re delighted that we’ll be able to include railway company records in a new extension to our work! This is […]
Navigating accidents in the pre-digital era
Sandwiched in the pages of the blue-bound volume are tattered and faded place-markers, paper browned with age, sometimes torn or crumbled to the point of no return. Way-finders in the several hundred page volume, at the top of each they have a brief pointer to the pertinent thing being marked, some written by different hands: […]
More records, more work – more accidents for our database!
We mentioned a few weeks’ ago that, thanks to the National Railway Museum and its lovely volunteers, we were extending our project (see here). That work on the Great Eastern Railway’s Benevolent Fund book is coming along nicely (despite the difficulties of deciphering 100+ year old manuscript!). Even better news now … and again, we’re […]
Project extension – No 1! Or, many & varied railway jobs
We’re delighted to be able to say that we’re extending the project! We’ve blogged in the past about the impact of accidents and trying to find out what happened to injured workers after they had an accident – see this post on the Great Eastern Railway’s Benevolent Fund book, covering 1913-23 and held at Search […]
