We’ve blogged in the past about those cases in our database where staff had two accidents (see here for the most recent of those posts).…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’, our project made available a set of records produced by the Amalgamated Society…
Last Saturday, as I arrived home from the U3A Family History Conference, I spotted a discussion on Twitter that was sad to read. Else Churchill,…
There’s never a dull moment for us, but the last couple of weeks have been particularly busy. On top of the usual things, we’ve submitted…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
Well – hopefully not your own accidents, but we are interested in any cases of accidents to railway workers in the past about which you…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
In this guest post, project supporter Peter Munro looks at a passenger accident from 1914 – what would today be known as a ‘trap and…
The UK is currently undergoing a very warm spell, with today, 25 July, looking like it’s going to be the hottest day of the year…
In our project we’re used to looking at the reports produced by the accident investigators of 100 or so years ago (see this blog post,…