This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
This month we’ve already highlighted a a number of cases in which workers had 2 accidents (see here and here). Before the month is out,…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…
In this post, project volunteer Brian Grainger, with the NRM team, raises some questions about the practicalities of the Board of Trade accident inspectors’ work.…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…