Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
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…
Following up on the success of last week’s Transcription Tuesday event – for more on that, see here – this week we’re delighted to offer…
In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
In a previous post, we focused on labourer Joseph Brown of the Great Eastern Railway, one of a select few – 15 – who feature…
If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…
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…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…