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…
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…
So far our project has only focused on the accidents railway workers suffered: what happened after that, for them, their families and their communities has…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
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…