Before we launched our trade union dataset (details here), we started to publicise what was coming. In response to our Tweet about one of the…
In this guest post, Francis Howcutt recounts the accidental death of Arthur Bott, a brother of his great grandfather. Arthur’s history is an example of…
This week’s guest post links nicely to last week’s, with its focus on Peterborough. Peterborough offers a great window onto death in the past, thanks…
In this post, one of our project volunteers – who wishes to remain anonymous – looks at a new topic for us: trespass. Like staff…
So far our project has focused on what we’d understand as ‘mainline’ railways. That’s been a product of the sources available to us. It means…
The railways were highly ordered and regulated spaces. They had to be, to ensure they ran and that (for passengers at least) they ran safely.…