In last week’s post, we looked at the ways in which the 1923 railway Grouping didn’t actually Group all railway companies. Many pre-1923 railway companies…
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…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
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…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
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…
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…
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.…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…