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

这个项目关注的是海军——那些被忽视的建造铁路的男男女女。在1830年至1860年代铁路建设的高峰期，这些流动工人从一个地方搬到另一个地方，住在临时营地里，他们通常远离已有的定居点，远离家乡，但离新铁路很近。他们的劳动遗产就在我们身边，至今仍在使用——银行、桥梁、隧道、路堑和现代铁路景观的入口。然而，他们独特的生活方式所留下的遗产，以及这些遗产能告诉我们当代英国的临时社区的什么，还没有被探索过。该项目利用NRM提供的文本和材料来源，并将它们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，为这个失落的社区创造一个重要的新历史。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应有的荣誉，但早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，以及他们在历史和当代流动工人文化中的地位

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