In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
Six months ago, we added an extra 17,000 records to our project database. Since then we’ve been promoting the database and trying to ensure people…
In our last post, we used our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff to look at a few cases occurring immediately around…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
Last week’s blog looked at shunter Frederick Potter, and the way his railway work continued, in a different role, after his 1913 accident which led…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…