We’ve noted in the past how a great many accidents happened in mundane circumstances, to a single railway worker – and how this obscured the…
So far our project has only focused on the accidents railway workers suffered: what happened after that, for them, their families and their communities has…
It was reported last week that the proposed demolition of most of the remaining original parts of the London and North Western Railway’s Wolverton Works…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…
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…