Tracing Your Railway Ancestors. A guide for family historians
Details:
- Author(s) Drummond, Diane K
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2010
- Pages 272pp; illus
- Publisher Pen & Sword
- Place Published Barnsley
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Comprised of three parts: 1] an outline history of the railway system to 1990s [pp19-63]; 2] an account of the workforce and of the working of the railways including railway builders, operating employees, women employees, railway workshop employees [pp65-163]; 3] guide to sources for researching railway employees including railway company archives in the National Archives, British Parliamentary Papers, trade union archives, published works, etc [pp165-268]