This month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…
Something of a departure for our usual project focus, this week’s blog makes use of an accident report type we don’t usually have reason to…
In another one of those fortuitous encounters – in this case, virtually, on Twitter – we ended up in contact with the author of today’s…
We’ve already blogged about a couple of cases of multiple accidents: when our database has shown a worker had more than one accident. We’ve considered…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…