The Wandering Tribes: recovering the lost lives and landscapes of the railway navvies

这个项目的重点是海军-被忽视的男人和女人谁建的铁路。在1830年至1860年代铁路建设的高峰期，这些流动工人从一个工地搬到另一个工地，住在临时营地里，通常远离定居点，远离家乡，但靠近新铁路。他们劳动的遗产就在我们周围，今天仍然在使用-银行，桥梁，隧道，切割，现代铁路景观的方法。然而，他们独特的生活方式的遗产，以及这可以告诉我们当代英国的流动社区，还没有被探索。该项目利用NRM提供的文本和材料来源，并将其与新的方法和数据集（数字报纸，考古调查和社区参与）相结合，以创建这个失落社区的重要新历史。它将为一个对铁路历史至关重要的群体提供声音和色彩，他们应该在即将到来的大会堂重新设计中获得荣誉，但应该进行专门的跨学科研究，以了解他们作为一个独特的社区及其与历史和当代移民工人文化的关系。

This project focuses on the navvies - the neglected men and women who built the railways. At the height of railway construction, between 1830 and the 1860s, these itinerant workers moved from site to site living in temporary camps, often removed from established settlements and far from home, but near to the new railway. The legacy of their labours is all around us and still in use today - the banks, bridges, tunnels, cuttings, and approaches of the modern railway landscape. Yet the legacy of their distinctive lifestyles, and what that can tell us about transient communities in contemporary Britain, has not been explored. This project draws upon the textual and material sources available at the NRM and combines them with new approaches and datasets - digital newspapers, archeological surveys, and community engagements - to create an important new history of this lost community. It will give voice and colour to a group who were fundamental to railway history and who deserve their place of honour in the upcoming redesign of the Great Hall, yet are overdue a dedicated interdisciplinary study to understand them as a distinctive community and their place alongside historical and contemporary migratory worker cultures