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…
In the past we’ve featured cases from our database involving railway employees who were what we’d now understand as children: R Kennedy, for example, who…
Earlier this week we posted a blog summarising a few thoughts about the recent Family Tree Live event at Alexandra Palace. There was plenty we…
UPDATE: We’ve now added a new post, capturing some of the thoughts of our stand visitors & volunteers – read it here! On Friday…
Back in November we released our second set of project data – details of around 500 Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff and former staff, between…
We’re delighted to say we’re going to be at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace later this month – and we want to see you…
We’ve noted in the past how a great many accidents happened in mundane circumstances, to a single railway worker – and how this obscured the…
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…