From time to time we might leave an appliance running whilst we’re doing something elsewhere – leaving the oven or kettle on, for example, when…
Following up on last week’s blog post which looked at some cases from our newest data release, we thought it would be worth looking at…
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…
… and a case from our new data release, for good measure! As we start 2020 it seems like a good time to look…
The majority of this post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who had been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over…
Earlier this week we launched our third set of data about accidents to railway staff (see here). It comes from a record of legal cases…
From Tralee and Belfast to Inverness, and Wrexham to Ashford and Penzance, our newest data release shows the impact of staff railway accidents in the…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…