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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8032/1/3/22
TitleClive Leivers's research file relating to the lives of navvies: "General"
Dateearly 21st cent
DescriptionCollected secondary sources relating to navvies, including some copies of contemporary newspaper accounts, sources printed from the internet and articles such as:
"The Railway Navvies" two short articles by Tom Wood, Family Tree Magazine, 2003 including Clive Leivers's letter in response, printed in the September edition.
"Edwin Chadwick and the Railway Labourers" by R A Lewis in Economic History Review
"The Criminal Navvy in the West Riding of Yorkshire" by David Brooke, Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, March 1992
"Towards an archaeology of navvy huts and settlements of the industrial revolution" by Michael Morris, Antiquity 68, 1994
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorClive Leivers, local historian
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