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Last month’s guest editorial highlighted a matter of increasing concern – that of providing secure futures for important collections of photographs, negatives and transparencies, particularly when a deceased photographer has not formally stipulated w

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In the early hours of the morning of 21st October 1805 a gas explosion ripped through the High Main seam of ‘C’ Pit at Hebburn Colliery, just south of the Tyne. 700ft underground 35 men died deaths as grim as any suffered at the Battle of Trafalgar,

This feature originates from a request by the Railway & Canal Historical Society to write extended notes for its 2020 Annual Meeting in Bradford, which had to be cancelled owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The author is grateful to the RCHS for agre

Regarding the article in the February issue, a few additional points may be of interest. Firstly, in 1875, a successful legal case was brought against the LNWR by the newly formed Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association to prevent that Company continui

★★★★★ Excellent ★★★★ Very Good ★★★ Good ★★ Fair ★ Poor The Story of a Welsh Rural By way by Peter Johnson, published by Pen and Sword Transport, hardback, 232pages, £30.00. ISBN 978 1-52674-477-7 Following in the tracks of earlier books on the Vale o