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…
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…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
Our project is documenting the many risks incidental to railway working – including at times animal dangers. We’ll be coming back to the more usual…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
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,…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…