In previous posts we’ve featured several cases in which 1 worker suffered 2 accidents (and we’ve already had reports in from our ongoing project extensions…
It’s been a while since we blogged a case from our Great Eastern Railway benevolent fund dataset, so we thought we’d return to it to…
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…
This week is Rail Safety Week 2019, an industry-led initiative working to improve safety for everyone in rail, whether passenger, worker or more. Everything we…
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
Only 6 weeks’ ago we were at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace – and last week we took the project to another family history…
For our final Volunteers’ Week post, we wanted to showcase just a few comments we’ve had on the project, from some of the people using…
In this post, those working with the volunteers at each of the project institutions reflect on the project so far, and in particular on what…
1-7 June is the UK’s Volunteers’ Week – a celebration of the hard work and amazing achievements of people giving up their time freely to…
Recently in my household, we had an object lesson in how government regulations have helped improve our health and wellbeing – via one (big) pane…