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1 Study of industrial archaeology is often asso ciated with museums. The entrance to Beamish Museum. Source: Kate Clark i the archaeology of the twentieth century is a rch has yet been undertaken (Trinder 1993).
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An overview of the archaeology of the industrial period in the UK, covering the nature of the industrial revolution, industrial archaeology, current perceptions the archaeology of power, raw materials, textiles, building technology, workers' housing, transport, agruculture, and consumer goods.
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... 45 Use of sugar became more widely spread towards the latter parts of the mediaeval period, but The post-mediaeval period in England was a time of rapid technological advancements that accompanied the Industrial Revolution; these included the invention of steam power, the intensification of agriculture (made possible via better fertilizers), crop rotation, and the introduction of fodder crops, allowing for the year-round availability of animal products. 48,49 For the first half of the post-mediaeval period diet remained much the same as before, persisting throughout the Tudor period and into the 17th century. However, it is during the 17th century when changes to food composition, availability, and production occur, a result of ''. . ...
... The dominance in the 1990s of historical archaeologists' social approach to the industrial transition rather than industrial archaeologists' process-based methodologies is reflected in Kate Clark's 1999 call for industrial archaeology to consider how best it can contribute to the study of this era (Clark 1999). Recently, however, there has started to develop amongst industrial archaeologists a more explicitly theoretical approach to the industrial transition, with an emphasis on long time scales, the development of social linkages, and authority and landscapes, but focused on industrial production and the growth of the new industrial, urban-based, tenantry. ...
... To create such socio-economic interpretations, research methods typically incorporate a wide range of documentary sources, including census records, Parliamentary reports, newspaper accounts, municipal and parish records, public health and sanitation records, fire insurance plans, wills and inventories, and taxation records (Palmer & Neaverson 1998, 105-128). More importantly, by adopting explicitly comparative perspectives, this approach to industrial archaeology has emphasised the social, economic and technological interconnections that linked sites into wider regional networks of extraction, transportation, production, distribution, and consumption (Clark 1999;Nevell & Walker 1999;Clark 1999;Newman 2001). This has resulted in one of the most exciting new directions, namely, the survey, excavation and analysis of not only the industrial workplaces (the canals, factories, mills, mines, and railways) but the associated domestic and recreational places. ...
... To create such socio-economic interpretations, research methods typically incorporate a wide range of documentary sources, including census records, Parliamentary reports, newspaper accounts, municipal and parish records, public health and sanitation records, fire insurance plans, wills and inventories, and taxation records (Palmer & Neaverson 1998, 105-128). More importantly, by adopting explicitly comparative perspectives, this approach to industrial archaeology has emphasised the social, economic and technological interconnections that linked sites into wider regional networks of extraction, transportation, production, distribution, and consumption (Clark 1999;Nevell & Walker 1999;Clark 1999;Newman 2001). This has resulted in one of the most exciting new directions, namely, the survey, excavation and analysis of not only the industrial workplaces (the canals, factories, mills, mines, and railways) but the associated domestic and recreational places. ...
Whilst the North West of England was one of the cradles of the Industrial Revolution, and was at the forefront of the development of the new academic discipline of Industrial Archaeology, there is no overview of the region's industrial archaeology which deals with the landscape and social archaeology approach to the subject. This volume, the second in an occasional series on models and methodology in North West archaeology, brings together many of the leading researchers in the region to present for the first time detailed studies of the
landscape and social archaeology of the period. The volume is divided into two sections. The first deals with models and methodologies for approaching the period in North West England. The second part presents a series of five case studies from around the region which show how landscape and social archaeology models and methodologies have been applied from Cumbria and Lancashire through to Greater Manchester, Cheshire,
and north-western Derbyshire. These innovative approaches allow us to look at the archaeological monuments, landscapes, and buildings of the Industrial Period from the farm to the factory.
The Industrial Revolution represents one of the great changes in human society, and can be ranked in importance alongside the development of language, the establishment of farming, and the growth of urban societies. There is a large and growing body of literature about this Revolution, and the transition to an Industrial Society, written from the historians’ and economists’ view point, but little from an archaeological perspective (Clark, 1999:281–2). For the archaeologist the study of the Manchester region, with its early and rapid shift from rural backwater to industrial centre, offers models of archaeological transition and social stress that may be applicable to other regions undergoing similar processes (Nevell and Walker, 1999:11–2). The contributions to the debate made by industrial archaeologists in Britain have tended to lean towards studies of the mechanics, or physical character, of individual industries or structures, with a consequent lack of synthesis. This trend amongst British archaeologists is understandable given the volume of the available archaeological database and historical record and the depth of the theories of economic historians. Yet, as the Association for Industrial Archaeology and English Heritage have both observed, this trend may have meant that the contribution of archaeologists to the debate on the validity and origins of the Industrial Revolution as a concept has not been as great as it could have been (English Heritage, 1997:45; Palmer, 1991). The work presented in this paper is part of a long-term research program by the University of Manchester Archaeological Unit into the archaeology of industrialisation.
