We started our posts this month with another 2 cases of workers having 2 accidents each, with the promise (threat?) of more multiple accidents to…
As a project we’re keen on archives! No great surprise, given the records we rely upon are cared for in archives – and one of…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…
In the course of the project work, our volunteers have found a huge range of stories that feed into our database. Some are quirky, many…
28 March was originally planned to host Dorset History Day – though obviously that’s now been postponed due to Coronavirus. However, as we’d written this…
From time to time we might leave an appliance running whilst we’re doing something elsewhere – leaving the oven or kettle on, for example, when…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…