Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
So far our project has only focused on the accidents railway workers suffered: what happened after that, for them, their families and their communities has…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…
Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…
This is our last post for Explore your Archive week (see the previous post here) – next week we’ll be returning to our usual weekly…
As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…