As Remembrance Sunday approaches, Senior Library and Archive Assistant Peter Thorpe highlights how railway companies commemorated fallen railway workers.
Peter is the Senior Archive and Library Assistant at the National Railway Museum managing the public service in Search Engine, our library and archive centre, acquiring and cataloguing books for the library collection and working on projects with our archive collections.
Senior Library and Archive Assistant Peter Thorpe explains our library classification system, adapted from a design created originally be George Ottley.
Peter Thorpe explains our approach to collecting and why we must often say ‘no’.
How a small revolution took place in our extensive collection of railway timetables.
Peter explores the history of the printed version of the National Rail Timetable as it reaches the end of its life.
We get a surprising amount of enquiries about railway clocks. Luckily, we have quite a few records in the archives.
Peter Thorpe digs deeper into the history of the building which still stands in the museum’s car park.
Exciting things are on the horizon for our collaborative project on the history of railway safety.
This week we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of Search Engine, our library and archive centre.
How did the Parliamentary Papers in our archives inform safety standard during the period of railway mania?
We recently acquired a set of parliamentary papers covering the years 1837 up 1906. How will we begin to catalogue them?
In Search Engine, our archive and library centre, we receive many thousands of enquiries each year by letter and email. We get some fascinating questions, and one recent query was quite unusual, so I thought I’d share it with you.