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

托马斯·彭南特（Thomas Pennant）的《1769年苏格兰之旅》（Tour in Scotland 1769）和《1772年苏格兰之旅和西部群岛之旅》（Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Western Isles 1772）（1771- 1776年出版），以及他的《威尔士之图尔斯in Wales 1778-1783），在苏格兰和威尔士旅游业的诞生中发挥了基础性作用。彭南特的《图尔斯》对当代作家和旅行者产生了深远的影响，它是第一部关于苏格兰和威尔士的大量插图文献，对这两个国家在现代时代的尖端的文化、经济和环境状况进行了“国家描述”。尽管这些复杂的、多声音的文本多年来一直在重印，但从未经过适当的编辑：它们是广泛学科研究的宝贵资源。我们的可搜索数字版本将使读者能够在图像，物体，建筑物和地点的丰富背景下体验这些作品，并将其与遗产机构的在线收藏联系起来。例如，对斯凯岛上邓维根城堡的描述，会与彭南特的艺术家摩西·格里菲斯在1772年旅行中创作的水彩画联系起来;对在北威尔士海滩捡到的贝壳的描述，会与彭南特的《英国动物学》中的描述联系起来，也会与彭南特在国家历史博物馆收藏的实际标本联系起来。旅游叙述并不总是代表彭南特的目击者的帐户，即使它似乎这样做：他的大部分信息是从当地专家收集，往往晚于旅程本身。将这些图尔斯与他广泛的书信联系起来，将使评论家、历史学家和考古学家能够深入到已出版的文本背后，了解“谁在何时看到了什么”。我们在凯尔特语言的专业知识将使我们能够从苏格兰盖尔语或威尔士语的贡献者探索文化翻译的性质。数字编辑也将使它更容易跟踪发展的出版图尔斯通过连续的版本，作为彭南特纳入越来越多的材料，有时逐字逐句，从热情的读者。网站的描述将链接到（并用于增强）由威尔士古代和历史古迹皇家委员会）和坎莫尔（苏格兰历史环境），这两个广泛使用的公共资源举行的参赛作品。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密切合作，开展一系列在线展览和项目。我们与自然历史博物馆的合作伙伴关系将使我们能够更密切地研究彭南特作为一个自然主义者的工作是如何影响和影响他的旅行。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伯恩吉尔伯特白宫馆即将举办的展览的焦点。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图尔斯之旅中隐藏的故事带到生活中。彭南特的著作可以告诉我们关于18世纪殖民主义，奴隶制和工业革命的复杂遗产将是我们研究的一个关键线索，在各种文章和在格林菲尔德山谷工业遗产公园附近的彭南特在霍利韦尔，弗林特郡的家展览中探索。

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.