Curious Travellers: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland and Wales

托马斯·彭南特1769年的苏格兰之旅和1772年的苏格兰之旅和西岛之旅(1771-76年出版)，以及他的威尔士之旅(1778-1783年)在苏格兰和威尔士旅游业的诞生中发挥了基础性的作用。彭南特之旅对当代作家和旅行者产生了深远的影响，它代表了第一部图文并茂的苏格兰和威尔士纪录片，提供了这两个国家处于现代风口浪尖的文化、经济和环境状况的“国家描述”。虽然这些复杂的、多声音的文本多年来一直在重印，但从未经过适当的编辑：它们是跨越广泛学科的研究的宝贵资源。我们的可搜索数字版本将允许读者在其丰富的图像、物体、建筑和场所背景下体验这些作品，将它们连接到遗产机构的在线收藏。例如，对斯凯岛上的邓维根城堡的描述将链接到彭南特的艺术家摩西·格里菲斯在1772年巡演中制作的一幅水彩画；对在北威尔士海滩上捡到的贝壳的描述将链接到彭南特的《英国动物学》中的描述，以及彭南特在国家历史博物馆收藏的实际标本。旅行的叙述并不总是代表彭南特的目击者描述，即使它看起来是这样的：他的大部分信息是从当地专家那里收集的，往往是在旅行本身之后。将《巡回演唱会》与他广泛的书信联系起来，将使批评家、历史学家和考古学家能够理解出版的文本背后的内容，了解谁看到了什么，以及什么时候看到的。我们在凯尔特语方面的专业知识将使我们能够探索苏格兰盖尔语或威尔士语贡献者进行文化翻译的本质。数字编辑也将使通过连续版本追踪已出版巡演的发展变得更容易，因为彭南特从热情的读者那里吸收了越来越多的材料，有时是逐字逐句的。遗址描述将与Coflein(威尔士皇家古迹和历史古迹委员会)和Canmore(苏格兰历史环境)拥有的条目相关联(并用于增强)，这两个条目都是广泛使用的公共资源。我们还将与威尔士和苏格兰国家图书馆以及国家海事博物馆就一系列在线展览和项目密切合作。我们与自然历史博物馆的合作将使我们能够更密切地研究彭南特作为一名博物学家的工作是如何受到他的旅行的影响的。他与另一位重要的自然历史学家吉尔伯特·怀特的通信将成为塞尔本吉尔伯特白宫博物馆展览的焦点。与弗林特郡和斯凯的学校和社区团体合作的项目、在线展览、数字地图、研讨会和其他活动都将有助于将这些开创性之旅中隐藏的故事栩栩如生。彭南特的著作能告诉我们18世纪殖民主义、奴隶制和工业革命的复杂遗产，这将是我们研究的一个关键线索，各种文章和彭南特位于弗林特郡霍利韦尔家附近的格林菲尔德山谷工业遗产公园的展览都对此进行了探索。

Thomas Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769 and Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Western Isles 1772 (published 1771-76), and his Tours in Wales (1778-1783) played a foundational role in the birth of tourism in Scotland and Wales. Profoundly influencing contemporary writers and travellers, Pennant's Tours represented the first extensively illustrated documentation of Scotland and Wales, providing 'national descriptions' of the cultural, economic and environmental condition of both countries on the cusp of the modern era. Although reprinted over the years, these complex, multi-voiced texts have never been properly edited: they are a valuable resource for research across a wide range of disciplines. Our searchable digital editions will allow readers to experience these works within their rich context of images, objects, buildings and places, connecting them to online collections in heritage institutions. A description of Dunvegan Castle on Skye, for example, would link to a watercolour made by Pennant's artist Moses Griffith on the 1772 tour; an account of a shell picked up on a beach in north Wales would link to its description in Pennant's British Zoology, and to the actual specimen from Pennant's collection at the National History Museum. The tour narrative does not always represent Pennant's eyewitness account, even when it appears to do so: much of his information was gleaned from local experts, often postdating the journey itself. Linking the Tours into his wide-ranging correspondence will allow critics, historians and archaeologists to get behind the published text to understand 'who saw what, and when'. Our expertise in Celtic languages will enable us to explore the nature of cultural translation from Scottish Gaelic or Welsh-speaking contributors. Digital editing will also make it easier to trace the development of the published tours through successive editions, as Pennant incorporated more and more material, sometimes verbatim, from enthusiastic readers. Descriptions of sites will be linked to (and used to enhance) the entries held by Coflein (Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments in Wales) and Canmore (Historic Environment Scotland), both of them widely-used public resources. We will also be working closely with the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland and the National Maritime Museum on a range of online exhibitions and projects. Our partnership with the Natural History Museum will allow us to examine more closely how Pennant's work as a naturalist influenced and was influenced by his travels. His correspondence with another important natural historian, Gilbert White, will be the focus of an exhibition to be held at the Gilbert White House Museum in Selborne. Projects with schools and community groups in Flintshire and Skye, online exhibitions, digital maps, workshops and other events will all help to bring the hidden stories in these pioneering tours to life. What Pennant's writings can tell us about the complex legacies of eighteenth-century colonialism, slavery and the industrial revolution will be a key thread of our research, explored in various articles and in an exhibition at the Greenfield Valley Industrial Heritage Park near Pennant's home in Holywell, Flintshire.