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Power and innovation : excavating pre-1806 steam engines in the Manchester area (2019)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2019). Power and innovation : excavating pre-1806 steam engines in the Manchester area. International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology, 88(2), 204-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2019.1573949

This paper reviews the archaeological evidence for the use of stationary steam engines on colliery and textile manufacturing sites in the Manchester city region prior to 1806. It draws upon fieldwork undertaken as a result of developer-funded archaeo... Read More about Power and innovation : excavating pre-1806 steam engines in the Manchester area.

Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018 (2019)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2019). Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 111, 99-117

2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of professional archaeology within the Manchester city region, with the creation of the Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit (GMAU) in 1980. This was the culmination of a decade of raising awaren... Read More about Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018.

The Importance of British Material Culture to the Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century edited by Alasdair Brooks Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2015. 369 pp. (2019)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2019). The Importance of British Material Culture to the Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century edited by Alasdair Brooks Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2015. 369 pp. American Anthropologist, 121(1), 273-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13169

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