As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
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 return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
In this guest post, project supporter Peter Munro looks at a passenger accident from 1914 – what would today be known as a ‘trap and…
In previous posts we’ve featured several cases in which 1 worker suffered 2 accidents (and we’ve already had reports in from our ongoing project extensions…
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…
Of all of the types of injuries that appear in our database, burns and scalds are relatively infrequent. This might just be an artefact of…
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…