For this week’s post, we’re delighted to have another contribution from Helen Ford, the project co-lead at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. One…
In this guest post, Linda Whitaker has kindly written up the death of one of her ancestors, Jonathan Rogers. His accident was one of the…
In this guest blog post, Sue Page looks at the life & death of her Great Grandfather and the impact it had on his family…
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…
We’re delighted to feature this guest post, from Rebecca Wynter, one of the team working on the excellent ‘Forged by Fire’ project, looking at burns…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. We wanted to provide you with a quick update…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
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…