In this guest post, NRM volunteer Brian Grainger reflects on some questions that have occurred to him in the course of transcribing the state accident…
In the course of the project work, our volunteers have found a huge range of stories that feed into our database. Some are quirky, many…
We’re grateful to Ian Strugnell for this guest blog post. Ian is a member of the Great Eastern Railway Society, and got in touch after…
In this guest blog post, Sue Page looks at the life & death of her Great Grandfather and the impact it had on his family…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
28 March was originally planned to host Dorset History Day – though obviously that’s now been postponed due to Coronavirus. However, as we’d written this…
Last week, Karen and Mike took part in this year’s Gerald Aylmer seminar, a day-long symposium themed around ‘co-production & collaboration in the archive’. Jointly…
All of the cases we’re cataloguing in our project database are sad, as at the very least they represent pain having been inflicted. Often they…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…
From time to time we might leave an appliance running whilst we’re doing something elsewhere – leaving the oven or kettle on, for example, when…