In the UK, Disability History Month runs from 16 November – 16 December annually. It’s an important initiative, helping to highlight disabled people and their…
In this guest post, Louise Bell reflects on her visit to the ‘On Track for Change’ exhibition at Head of Steam, earlier this year. The…
We’re delighted to feature this blog post from a team at the Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum. It focuses on a topic of…
In this guest post, NRM project volunteer Arthur Moore returns to consider some of the cases he’s encountered when transcribing state accident investigations for the…
So far in our posts for Disability History Month and focusing on the Great Eastern Railway’s benevolent fund book (see here and here) we’ve looked…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…
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…