Author: Lewis Moule Evans
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mr Evans writes about the navvies as a distinct class of men - almost a different species. He praises the hard work they have done in helping to construct the railways and also in the construction of the many reservoirs in the North of England. The aim of the book is to understand this 'species' and to see what can be done to meet their needs.
Navvies and Their Needs
Author: Lewis Moule Evans
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mr Evans writes about the navvies as a distinct class of men - almost a different species. He praises the hard work they have done in helping to construct the railways and also in the construction of the many reservoirs in the North of England. The aim of the book is to understand this 'species' and to see what can be done to meet their needs.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mr Evans writes about the navvies as a distinct class of men - almost a different species. He praises the hard work they have done in helping to construct the railways and also in the construction of the many reservoirs in the North of England. The aim of the book is to understand this 'species' and to see what can be done to meet their needs.
Our navvies: a dozen years ago and to-day
Author: Elizabeth Garnett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Railroad construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Railway Navvies
Author: Terry Coleman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784082317
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784082317
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
the quiver: an illustrated magazine for sunday and general reading
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Navvyman
Author: Dick Sullivan
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Labour Among the Navvies
Author: Thomas Fayers
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930
Author: Matthew D. Esposito
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351211838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2985
Book Description
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351211838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2985
Book Description
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies
Author: Anthony Burton
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752481266
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is the story of the men who built Britain’s canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752481266
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is the story of the men who built Britain’s canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
The Quiver
Author:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
Publisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
the home visitor and district companion an illustrated magazine
Author: rev. p. b. power, m.a.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description