Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
Wednesday marks the start of 2020’s Disability History Month, something that our project speaks closely too, given the large numbers of railway staff who were…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
In the course of her research into the military railway aspects of the First World War, Sandra Gittins has already found a number of accidents…
Today we are fortunate in that the idea of work-life balance exists – if only as an ideal, in many cases. People interested in understanding…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James takes us back into an era outside project coverage, and to an accident not usually…
Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…