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

这个项目的重点是海军--建造铁路的被忽视的男人和女人。在1830年至19世纪60年代的铁路建设高峰期，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，经常离开既定的定居点，远离家乡，但离新铁路很近。他们的劳动留下的遗产就在我们周围，今天仍然在使用--银行、桥梁、隧道、路基和现代铁路景观的引道。然而，他们独特的生活方式留下的遗产，以及这能告诉我们关于当代英国暂住社区的什么，还没有被探索。该项目利用了NRM现有的文本和材料来源，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--结合起来，为这个失落的社区创造了一部重要的新历史。它将给一个对铁路历史至关重要、在即将到来的大会堂重新设计中应得荣誉地位的群体发出声音和色彩，但早该进行一项专门的跨学科研究，以了解他们作为一个独特的社区以及他们在历史和当代移民工人文化中的地位

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