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…
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 week is ‘Explore your Archive’ week, an initiative of The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association. It’s designed to raise awareness of…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
In the cases we’ve highlighted so far on this blog, one type of railway worker has been absent: the workshop or factory employee. These were…
We’ve been trying to get an update on the blog once a week since we made the spreadsheet available, drawing on the volunteers’ work and…
The spreadsheet has been available from the site for around 2 months now, so we thought it might be a good chance to give a…
Although the vast majority of people documented by the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project as being injured or killed were employees of the various…
It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can…