In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…
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…
In this post, project volunteer Brian Grainger, with the NRM team, raises some questions about the practicalities of the Board of Trade accident inspectors’ work.…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
We’re pleased to be able to feature another guest contribution, from family historian Enid Rispin looking back at the railway ancestors in her family –…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
In this guest post, project volunteer Stephen Lamb looks at one of the cases he’s transcribed from the records of the Amalgamated Society of Railway…
We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…