Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - have emerged over the last decade. This approach interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity, environmental impacts, and social legacy within our globalized world.
Through a broad international and multi-period set of chapters, this volume explores the complex origins, processes, and development of industrialization through both its physical remains and human consequences - both the good and the bad. It provides a diverse material framework for understanding our modern world, from its industrial origins through its future paths in the 21st century.
1: Paul A. Shackel: Introduction: The Past Made Public 2: Colin Rynne: Water Power 3: Ian West: The Gas Industry 4: Vicki Cummings and David Robinson: An Archaeology of Nuclear Power: Monuments of the Atomic Age 5: David Gwyn: Slate Production 6: Marilyn Palmer and Michael Nevell: The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry 7: Susan Lawrence: Gold Rush Archaeology: Gold and Silver Mining Around the Pacific Rim 8: Marilyn Palmer: . Non-ferrous Metal Mining and Processing in Industrial Britain 9: Chris Dalglish: Enclosure: A Living Historical Process 10: Sean Winter and Alistair Paterson: Australian Colonial Land Settlement 11: Peter Davies: Timber 12: Roger N. Holden: Textiles: Cotton 13: Colin Rynne: The Linen and Wool Industries in Britain and Ireland 14: Martin Gibbs: Maritime Industry: Whaling 15: Ian Miller: 'A Fruit of the Art of Fire': The Glass Industry in Britain 16: Amber Patrick and Hanna Steyne: Food Processing 17: Michael Nevell: Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works 18: Eleanor Conlin Casella: Ceramic Production 19: Paul Collins: British Car Factories since 1896: An Industrial Archaeology Site Type Survey Case Study 20: Michael Nevell: The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain 21: Fredric L. Quivik: Butte and Anaconda, Montana: Industrial Waste as Industrial Heritage 22: Geoff Timmins: Roads and Bridges 23: David Gwyn: Railways 24: Hanna Steyne and Nigel Crowe: Canals and Inland Waterways 25: Richard Newman and Hanna Steyne: Ports and Shipping 26: Nigel Linge: Global Communications, 1561 to 2016 27: Michael Nevell: Warehouses c. 1770 to 1914 28: Nigel Jeffries: Ceramics and Pottery: The Enduring Appeal of the Willow Pattern Print 29: Eleanor Conlin Casella and Samantha Bolton: Food Storage 30: Penny Crook: Commodities and Consumption 31: Michael Nevell: Industrial Workers' Housing in Britain 32: Angela Connelly: Churches and Chapels 33: Julie Rugg: The Industrial Archaeology of the Burial Landscape 34: Gordon S. Marino: A Celebration of Growth, Independence, and Worth: Symbolism and Functionality in Pools for Developing Industrial Communities 35: Maria Turk: Mechanics' Institutes in Britain and Ireland 36: Andrew Davison: Bars, Public Houses, and Saloons 37: Andrew Davison: Temperance 38: Eleanor Conlin Casella and Katherine Fennelly: Social Welfare Institutions 39: Wayne D. Cocroft: Industrialised Conflict 40: John Schofield: The Cold War: Archaeologies of Protest and Opposition 41: Marika Hyttinen and Titta Kallio-Seppä: They Were Here Too: Women and Children in Industrial Communities 42: Karin Larkin: The Social Life of Coal Mining 43: Marilyn Palmer: Conclusion: Industrial Archaeology: Past, Present and Future
Eleanor Conlin Casella is a historical archaeologist, with particular expertise in colonial and industrial archaeology. Currently a Professor at the University of Tasmania, her work primarily focuses on 19th century institutional sites within their wider global historic contexts. Michael Nevell is the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England, based at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and an Honorary Research Fellow in Industrial Archaeology at the University of Salford. He was also the founding Head of Archaeology at the Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford (2009-2020). Hanna Steyne is an archaeologist with expertise in maritime, industrial, and post-medieval archaeology. She has worked on archaeological sites on land and in the inter-tidal zone, and as a qualified commercial diver and has also led research on sites underwater dating from the prehistoric to the modern period.
