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…
It’s been a while since we blogged a case from our Great Eastern Railway benevolent fund dataset, so we thought we’d return to it to…
Back in November we released our second set of project data – details of around 500 Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff and former staff, between…
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…
Previous blog posts have already discussed the 2 project extensions in place at the National Railway Museum, here and here. But that’s not all we’ve…
In this post we’re pleased to feature another guest contributor, Nick Planas. Nick contacted our project earlier in the year, offering details of an accident…
We’re delighted to be able to say that we’re extending the project! We’ve blogged in the past about the impact of accidents and trying to…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can…