We started our posts this month with another 2 cases of workers having 2 accidents each, with the promise (threat?) of more multiple accidents to…
In this guest post, Linda Whitaker has kindly written up the death of one of her ancestors, Jonathan Rogers. His accident was one of the…
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…
In this post, Chris Jolliffe, one of the project volunteers based at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick and transcribing trade union…
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…
Of all of the types of injuries that appear in our database, burns and scalds are relatively infrequent. This might just be an artefact of…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest post from Yvonne Kerry. In the course of researching her family history she came across…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
In this guest blog post, Steve Chown outlines the few details he has of his grandfather Jim’s accident on the railways around the time of…
At the moment, Glasgow Queen St station is undergoing a major redevelopment, which has included exposing the Victorian glass frontage, concealed for the last 40…