Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Industrial and Imperial Britain c.1750–c.1900.
Manual labourers (short for 'navigators') who physically built major civil engineering projects like canals, roads, and railways.
Navvies appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for Migrants to Britain (c.1250–Present), especially Industrial and Imperial Britain c.1750–c.1900 and Irish migration.
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