Following up on last week’s blog post which looked at some cases from our newest data release, we thought it would be worth looking at…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
We’re delighted to feature this guest post, from Rebecca Wynter, one of the team working on the excellent ‘Forged by Fire’ project, looking at burns…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. We wanted to provide you with a quick update…
In this post, Chris Jolliffe, one of the project volunteers based at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick and transcribing trade union…
In this post, guest contributor Sandra Gittins brings us back to the First World War, when accidents to railway staff didn’t stop. She’s already blogged…
… and a case from our new data release, for good measure! As we start 2020 it seems like a good time to look…
Whilst as a project the records we’re making available are focused on Britain and Ireland, we’re interested in how railway safety has played out in…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
The majority of this post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who had been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over…