Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest post from Yvonne Kerry. In the course of researching her family history she came across…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
Following up on the success of last week’s Transcription Tuesday event – for more on that, see here – this week we’re delighted to offer…
We’re excited to announce that we’re taking part in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ event! On a single day, we’re going…
In the past 15 or so years, the academic community has become much more attuned to the value of collaboration with individuals and organisations beyond…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
So far in our posts for Disability History Month and focusing on the Great Eastern Railway’s benevolent fund book (see here and here) we’ve looked…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…