This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
This month we’ve already highlighted a a number of cases in which workers had 2 accidents (see here and here). Before the month is out,…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
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.…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…
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…
In this guest post, project volunteer Stephen Lamb looks at one of the cases he’s transcribed from the records of the Amalgamated Society of Railway…
We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…