In this guest blog post, one anonymous project volunteer looks at a very specific aspect noticed in the entries in the volume of one railway…
This blog is our final post in this series, ahead of the centenary tomorrow of the 1921 Stapleton Road accident. Yesterday we looked at the…
Following yesterday’s look at Charles Oakhill, and the railway connections in his family, today we turn to another railway family caught up in the Stapleton…
Yesterday we started introducing the men involved in the Stapleton Road accident. Today we focus on just one man, for whom we have more information:…
Yesterday we discussed the institutional responses to the Stapleton Road accident; from this point onwards, we look more at the personal impacts, on the men…
Yesterday’s blog post looked at what happened in the 1921 Stapleton Road accident on the Great Western Railway (GWR). Today we turn to the institutional…
Charles Edmonds. Herbert George North. Charles Oakhill. Joseph Barrett. Arthur Hobbs. Stephen Albert Francis. On 26 September 1921, these six track workers died…
In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff…
History and the past has been in the news a fair bit recently – notably controversies over culture wars, statues and how the past is…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…