Accidents might not seem like the most promising of family history topics – but as we’ve been finding on the Railway Work, Life & Death (RWLD) project, they can tell us a lot about the people involved and their working lives. That’s important, as many of us have ancestors who worked on Britain and Ireland’s railways. Around the time of World War I, these railways employed nearly 640,000 people. Tragically, it
SPOTLIGHT ON THE Railway Work, Life & Death project
Sep 11, 2023
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