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Industrial Archaeology Review XXX.1. Textile Mills and the Spatial Impact
2013
Between the early 18th century and the mid-19th century the north-west of England was turned from a relatively impoverished backwater to one of the major industrialisation zones in the world. This is thus a key region for understanding the archaeology of the early stages of industrialisation. The area around Manchester was at the heart of this process, which was driven in this region by the mechanisation of the textile industry. The archaeological remains of this industrial transition are not only very extensive but also comparatively early when considered against the classic period of the Industrial Revolution; the decades either side of 1800. This paper discusses this early evidence and the results of a wide-ranging regional survey looking at the archaeology of industrialisation within the textile industry and the role of local tenant farmers in promoting industry in and around Manchester during the 18th century. It highlights a number of key sources of evidence for this period, p...
This paper will look briefly at the archaeological evidence for industrialisation in the Manchester area. In the first part of the paper an overview will be given of one way of ordering the data, the ‘Manchester methodology’, and an assessment made of how applicable this approach to landscape and society is outside of the Manchester area. In the second part of the paper, one class of monument, the textile mill, will be studied in more detail to look at the spread and impact of industrialisation in this region. Whilst archaeology at he moment is not capable of answering why industrialisation happened, it is well placed to chart its growth and impact on the landscape and contemporary society.
2003
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.
Journal of Humanities and Tourism Research, 2021
The aim of this study is to explore the transformation of outdated industrial sites into UNESCO World Heritage Sites, focusing on their conservation history and how they were re-interpreted and presented to the public in terms of representing the working-class, women, and child labor as well as historic industrial values of the sites. As case studies, I selected three pioneering textile mills in the United Kingdom that were designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. These are the Derwent Valley, Saltaire, and New Lanark Mills. The study has been carried out by analyzing previous sources, several international and national policy documents regarding the protection and management of the sites, and conducting site visits and interviews with the site coordinators. The industrial sites examined here clearly display how the historical, economic, and practical context impacts the approaches to the conservation and adaptive re-use strategies of industrial heritage. They also illustrate how reuse and reinterpretation processes have played a crucial role in the search for a new identity for each historic industrial site.
2005 (Edited, with Eleanor Conlin Casella) Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions
The essays in this book are adapted from papers presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at the University of Manchester, in December 2002. The conference session "An Industrial Revolution? Future Directions for Industrial Archaeology," was jointly devised by the editors, and sponsored by English Heritage, with the intention of gathering together leading industrial and historical archaeologists from around the world. However, just as Manchester is being transformed by regeneration, shaking off many of the negative connotations associated with factory-based industrial production, and remaking itself as a 21st century city, then so too, is the archaeological study of industrialisation being transformed. Over the past decade, industrial archaeology has emerged as a theoretically driven subfield. Research has begun to meaningfully engage with such weighty issues as globalisation; post/modernity; power; innovation and invention; slavery and captivity; class, ethnic, and gender identities; social relations of technology and labour; and the spread and diversification of western capitalism. With contributions from an international group of authors, this volume highlights the current thought in industrial archaeology, as well as explores future theoretical and methodological directions. Together, these chapters further the process of meaningful engagement with such weighty issues as globalization; post/modernity; power; production and consumption; innovation and invention; class, ethnic, and gender identities; social relations of technology and labour; and the spread and diversification of western capitalism. Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions will be of interest to historical and urban archaeologists, architectural historians, preservation agencies, archaeological consulting organizations, cultural resource managers, and students of these disciplines.