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Salford Twist Mill: Uncovering an Iconic Textile Factory (2024)
Journal Article
Miller, I. (2024). Salford Twist Mill: Uncovering an Iconic Textile Factory. Industrial Archaeology Review, 46(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2024.2357425

The Salford Twist Mill of 1799-1801 has attracted much attention as a pioneering example of an iron-framed building, the first textile mill in England to have benefitted from steam heating and one of the earliest buildings in the world to have been p... Read More about Salford Twist Mill: Uncovering an Iconic Textile Factory.

Coming out in the wash : investigating Manchester's public baths and wash-houses (2021)
Journal Article
Miller, I., & Cook, O. (2021). Coming out in the wash : investigating Manchester's public baths and wash-houses. Industrial Archaeology Review, 43(2), 114-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2021.1967572

Manchester experienced an astonishing rate of growth from the late 18th century to become the first industrial town in the world by the 1830s. Its industrial prowess was fuelled by remarkable engineering talent that was drawn from across the country,... Read More about Coming out in the wash : investigating Manchester's public baths and wash-houses.

The Vulcan Works, Southport: The Archaeology of an Edwardian Car Factory (2021)
Journal Article
Miller, I., & Stitt, L. (2021). The Vulcan Works, Southport: The Archaeology of an Edwardian Car Factory. Industrial Archaeology Review, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2021.1885878

The widespread adoption of the motor car had what was perhaps the greatest impact on the physical and social landscape of 20th-century Britain, and yet virtually none of the early car factories have been subject to formal archaeological investigation... Read More about The Vulcan Works, Southport: The Archaeology of an Edwardian Car Factory.

Medieval Britain and Ireland — fieldwork highlights in 2019 : 'Excavations in the Northern Quarter of medieval Coventry' (2020)
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Miller, I., & Radford, A. (2020). Medieval Britain and Ireland — fieldwork highlights in 2019 : 'Excavations in the Northern Quarter of medieval Coventry'. Medieval Archaeology, 64(2), 378-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2020.1835278

Following an initial programme of archaeological evaluation trenching that confirmed the presence of extensive and significant below-ground remains across the site of the former Coventry Evening Telegraph complex, full excavation of five areas was ca... Read More about Medieval Britain and Ireland — fieldwork highlights in 2019 : 'Excavations in the Northern Quarter of medieval Coventry'.

Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, O., & Miller, I. (2020). Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study

An archaeological investigation undertaken by Salford Archaeology in 2016-18 ahead of a large development at Cuerden in Central Lancashire yielded significant evidence for land use in the area from the prehistoric period through to the present day. I... Read More about Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study.

Out of the Blue: The Seacombe Smalt Works (2020)
Journal Article
Radford, A., & Miller, I. (2020). Out of the Blue: The Seacombe Smalt Works. Current archaeology, 365,

Brief summary of an excavation of the 19th-century Seacombe Smalt Works in Birkenhead.

Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill (2019)
Journal Article
Miller, I. (2019). Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill. Industrial Archaeology Review, 41(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2019.1665900

An archaeological excavation at Lymm slitting mill in Cheshire was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology North in 2005 as a key component of the Lymm's Life Project, which was financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The slitting mill was established in the... Read More about Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill.

Reviewing the condition of historic textile mills in the North West (2019)
Journal Article
Miller, I. (2019). Reviewing the condition of historic textile mills in the North West. Historic England research (Online), 11, 18-27

Textile mills are fundamental to the history, culture and landscape of much of the North of England. They were the powerhouses behind the industrialisation of the region, triggering technological innovation, stimulating new trade and transforming the... Read More about Reviewing the condition of historic textile mills in the North West.

Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland (2018)
Journal Article
Gregory, R., Dungworth, D., Wild, C., & Miller, I. (2018). Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland. Archaeologia Aeliana, 47, 271-305

In 2011, an open-area excavation was undertaken on the site of the Wear Flint Glass Works, Sunderland. This glassworks operated throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and was initially engaged in the production of pressed-glass vesse... Read More about Excavating the Wear Flint Glass Works, Lisburn Terrace, Sunderland.

Richard Arkwright's Shudehill Mill : the archaeology of Manchester's first steampowered cotton mill (2017)
Journal Article
Miller, I., & Glithero, J. (2017). Richard Arkwright's Shudehill Mill : the archaeology of Manchester's first steampowered cotton mill. Industrial Archaeology Review, 38(2), 98-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2016.1266214

This article describes the archaeological recording of Richard Arkwright's mill on Shudehill in Manchester. This complex marked an important moment in the development of the mechanisation of the cotton industry in Britain. After initial but ultimatel... Read More about Richard Arkwright's Shudehill Mill : the archaeology of Manchester's first steampowered cotton mill.

Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland (2014)
Journal Article
Miller, I. (2014). Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland. Industrial Archaeology Review, 36(1), 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1179/0309072814Z.00000000027

This article summarises the findings from a recent archaeological excavation of the former Wearside Pottery in Sunderland, which provided a valuable opportunity to study the buried remains of a 20th-century potworks. Sunderland has a rich heritage of... Read More about Wearside pottery : a 20th-century potworks in Sunderland.