As we approach 2018 we thought it might be interesting to have a look at the junction between the old year and the new as…
To conclude our posts for Disability History Month, this week we’re focusing on what one of the datasets in our trade union data release can…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
This week’s guest post links nicely to last week’s, with its focus on Peterborough. Peterborough offers a great window onto death in the past, thanks…
This week’s blog post came about following a talk Mike gave at the U3A Family History Conference in Buxton in September 2019. Mike had a…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
As a project we’re keen on archives! No great surprise, given the records we rely upon are cared for in archives – and one of…
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’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).…