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In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…
It’s been a while since we blogged a case from our Great Eastern Railway benevolent fund dataset, so we thought we’d return to it to…
Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
So far in our posts for Disability History Month and focusing on the Great Eastern Railway’s benevolent fund book (see here and here) we’ve looked…