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British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters. This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confidential reports of the accident investigators who worked out what had gone wrong. The book explores the reasons why accidents happen. Some are due to the carelessness of staff, others due to equipment failure or poor signa
Railroad accidents --- Collisions, Railroad --- Derailments --- Rail disasters --- Railroad collisions --- Railroad trains --- Railroad wrecks --- Railroads --- Railway accidents --- Railway disasters --- Train wrecks --- Wrecks, Railroad --- Wrecks, Train --- Transportation accidents --- History. --- Accidents
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The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse' During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge within its forbidding walls. And it was an ever-present threat if poor families failed to look after themselves properly. As a result a grim mythology has grown up about the horrors of the 'house' and the mistreatment meted out to the innocent pauper. In this fully-updated and revised edition of his bestselling book, Simon Fowler takes a fresh look at the workhouse and the people who sought help from i
Almshouses --- Benevolent institutions --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Poor farms --- Poorhouses --- Workhouses (Poorhouses) --- Asylums --- Charities --- Hospitals --- Institutional care --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Old age homes --- History. --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales
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Soldiers --- World War (1914-1918) --- Great Britain --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Research
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Reconstruction (1914-1939) --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Politics and government
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This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find. Silences range from details of individuals' lives to records of state oppression or of intelligence operations. The book brings together ideas from a wide range of fields, from contemporary history through family history research to Shakespearian studies. It describes why there are these silences, what the impact of them is, how researchers have responded to them and what the silence of the archive means for researchers in the digital age.
Archivistics --- Archives --- Appraisal of archival materials. --- Records retention. --- Documents d'archives --- Calendrier de conservation (Archives) --- Acquisitions --- Evaluation --- 930.25 --- 930.25 Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Record retention schedules --- Retaining records --- Retention of records --- Records --- Appraisal of archival materials --- Acquisitions (Archives) --- Archive acquisitions --- Archival appraisal --- Evaluation of archival materials --- Selection of archival materials --- Archival materials --- Records retention --- Acquisitions. --- Management
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