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…
As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
We return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…
We’ve blogged in the past about those cases in our database where staff had two accidents (see here for the most recent of those posts).…
In this guest blog post, Peter Bloomfield was able to use our database to add further detail to his existing research into North London Railway…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest post from Yvonne Kerry. In the course of researching her family history she came across…
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…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…
17 October is National Burns Awareness Day, organised by the British Burn Association, a charity set up in 1968 to educate and encourage research into…