Earlier this month, Darlington’s railway museum opened in its revamped and reimagined format: Hopetown. Previously known as Head of Steam, it occupies the site of…
A leap year and a leap day are always a bit unusual. Sadly for the railways they weren’t so unusual in terms of the accidents…
In last week’s blog, starting our contributions to Disability History Month, we considered where we might see learning disabilities in our project work. This week…
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…
In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…
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,…
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…