In our last post, we used our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff to look at a few cases occurring immediately around…
This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
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…
Francis Howcutt has looked at where his family history and railways met previously, in this blog post, so we’re delighted to welcome him back. In…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…
Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
This week sees the release of the podcast we recorded for the Hampshire Archives Trust, focusing on Hampshire’s railways and what the project can add…