We have become familiar with images of wartime Christmas truces where fighting stopped—but this certainly wasn’t the universal experience on the Western Front 100 years ago.
“It’s been like trying to untangle a ball of string with lots of different stands”: our volunteers have been hard at work creating railway company biographies to aid researchers.
The railways and airlines have long had an association, as archive volunteer Tania Parker explains.
Jules Hussey and her colleague Sue Giovanni explain how Search Engine helped their ‘Inspired By The Subway’ research project on the Crystal Palace station.
How have train ticket prices varied over the years? Our fantastic volunteers took to the archive to find out.
Archivists normally hate the media describing archives as “lost” and “discovered”. My only excuse for using such tired clichés is that this collection actually was lost and discovered.
Archivist Alison Kay explores what our collections can tell us about life on board a First World War ambulance train.
Discover the stories our archive collections tell about the Great Central Railway.
This post is to let you know that our library catalogue is changing at the end of August.
Find out more about how the directories in our library could be useful for researching your family history.
Librarian Karen Baker writes about publications which may help you trace your family history, all of which can be viewed in Search Engine at the museum.
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.