The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways

by Terry Coleman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784977344
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	11/01/2019
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.

Editorial Reviews

Absorbing detail presented so readably that no one with a spark of imagination and a twinge of interest in people could fail to find this book a pleasure” —Evening Standard

“A brilliant book about a magnificent and vanished race of men” —Listerner

“Coleman's vivid and perceptive study of Victorian railway navvies is something of a landmark” —Guardian

“Coleman's pioneering work of industrial history is handsomely illustrated with prints and photographs from the time with a new introduction from the most distinguished recent historian of the railways” —The National (Glasgow)

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