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

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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.

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'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).
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.

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  • PublisherHead of Zeus
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1784082325
  • ISBN 13 9781784082321
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages320
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