In this week’s blog post, guest author Daisy Turnbull looks at some of the challenges involved in crossing railway lines in the past. As she…
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…
Continuing our Disability History Month blog posts, today we’re exploring one of the new runs of data from our trade union data release earlier this…
Our last 2 blog posts have taken an overview of the new project data (available here, free). This week we’re going to start looking at…
We’re delighted to welcome Sandra Gittens back to the project blog this week. Sandra is known for her research on – amongst others – the…
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…
On the day of the centenary of the Wilmcote accident, we turn to the fourth and final family to be affected: the Booker family. This…
Yesterday we looked at William Bonehill and his family – another small family, though no less devasting an impact via the death of a husband…
In yesterday’s post we looked at what happened in the days following the 1922 Wilmcote accident. This included some of the community impacts, seen through…
Edward Sherwood. George Booker. Lewis Washburn. William Bonehill. On 24 March 1922, these four Great Western Railway track workers were killed by a steam engine…