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The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry (2022)
Book Chapter
Palmer, M., & Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (74-94). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.10

This chapter concentrates on the archaeology of the coal industry within Britain, with a focus on extraction, processing, and transport, while placing the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century industrial remains within a wider European cont... Read More about The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry.

Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914 (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Warehouses c.1770 to 1914. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (445-456). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.28

This chapter covers the new warehouse types of the industrial period in Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. This includes those commercial building types involved with the short- to medium-term storage and distrib... Read More about Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914.

Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (507-528). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.32

This chapter focuses on the archaeological and standing buildings evidence for industrial housing directly associated with industry and urbanization in Britain during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Such housing was a neces... Read More about Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain.

The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (323-340). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.7

This chapter deals with the physical remains of the iron and steel industry in Britain. The focus is on extraction and processing rather than the products. The archaeological evidence spans the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, but with an emphas... Read More about The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain.

Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (274-290). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.8

This chapter looks at the development of mechanical engineering and integrated engineering works in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. It focusses on the main buildings on the sites, including pattern shop, foundry and forge, fit... Read More about Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works.