Department research recognised by the Science Museum Group Annual Review
Two groundbreaking projects which involve the Department of Archaeology and the National Railway Museum have been highlighted in the Science Museum Group's annual review.
First, the Slavery and Steam project headed by Professor Jon Finch in the Department and Dr Oli Betts from the National Railway Museum, funded by the White Rose University Consortium/AHRC includes colleagues from the White Rose universities as well as the NRM, Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, and Leeds Industrial Museums. It is exploring how the histories of enslavement and steam power are intertwined across global networks and how these histories are told in our museums.
Second, is the new Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the Department and the NRM, supervised by Jon Finch and Oli Betts, for which Peter Randall will explore the history and archaeology of the navvies; the shifting population of workers who built the early railways. Tracing their communities and their depictions in the national press at the time, Peter’s work addresses a surprising scholarly gap in the field.