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Unmarginalising participation in the past and enabling engagement in community archaeology – Dig Greater Manchester, a case study (2022)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2022). Unmarginalising participation in the past and enabling engagement in community archaeology – Dig Greater Manchester, a case study. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 9(4), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/20518196.2022.2130594

Dig Greater Manchester (DGM) was a large archaeological community engagement project operating within Britain during the years 2011 to 2016. Its scope and scale were designed to assess the impact of enabling local communities and individuals to acqui... Read More about Unmarginalising participation in the past and enabling engagement in community archaeology – Dig Greater Manchester, a case study.

Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage (2021)
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Simpson, A., & Nevell, M. (2021). Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage. Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 13(2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2022.2010924

Thermography can be an important tool for professionals working with traditional buildings. It is recognised by Historic England as providing information on a variety of structural features within buildings. Infrared thermography (IRT) is an acknowle... Read More about Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage.

Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site (2020)
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Williamson, R., Nevell, M., & Humphrey-Taylor, B. (2020). Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site. Post Classical Archaeologies, 10, 135-146

Continuing anthropogenic induced climate change poses risks to Cultural Heritage (CH) across the world. In the UK, cultural, natural and built heritage sites are often run by or with the help of groups of volunteers, whether that being at a nationa... Read More about Increasing the resilience of cultural heritage using novel technologies : the perspective from a UK volunteer-led site.

Power and innovation : excavating pre-1806 steam engines in the Manchester area (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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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Excavating ‘Hell Upon Earth’ towards a research framework for the archaeological investigation of workers’ housing : case studies from Manchester, UK (2017)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2017). Excavating ‘Hell Upon Earth’ towards a research framework for the archaeological investigation of workers’ housing : case studies from Manchester, UK. Industrial Archaeology Review, 39(2), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2017.1387355

This paper uses 16 years of targeted fieldwork on excavating workers’ housing in the Manchester region, UK, to assess a variety of research approaches to the investigation of urban industrial housing of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. M... Read More about Excavating ‘Hell Upon Earth’ towards a research framework for the archaeological investigation of workers’ housing : case studies from Manchester, UK.

Legislation and reality: the archaeological evidence for sanitation and housing quality in urban workers' housing in the Ancoats area of Manchester between 1800 and 1950 (2014)
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Nevell, M. (2014). Legislation and reality: the archaeological evidence for sanitation and housing quality in urban workers' housing in the Ancoats area of Manchester between 1800 and 1950. Industrial Archaeology Review, 36(1), 48-74. https://doi.org/10.1179/0309072814Z.00000000031

This paper looks at some of the excavated material for British urban workers’ housing, built and occupied during the period 1800 to 1950 in the Ancoats area of Manchester: Ancoats was notorious amongst contemporary writers and campaigners for its poo... Read More about Legislation and reality: the archaeological evidence for sanitation and housing quality in urban workers' housing in the Ancoats area of Manchester between 1800 and 1950.

Revisiting the iconic: the excavation of the reelfitz pit engine and the newcomen steam engine in Cumberland, UK (2014)
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Nevell, M., & George, D. (2014). Revisiting the iconic: the excavation of the reelfitz pit engine and the newcomen steam engine in Cumberland, UK. Industrial Archaeology Review, 36(2), 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1179/0309072814Z.00000000035

Examples of excavated 18th century stationary steam engine sites are very rare in Britain. This article records the rescue excavations ahead of road-building works of one such site in 1974-5 at Reelfitz Pit in Little Clifton, Cumberland. The Reelfitz... Read More about Revisiting the iconic: the excavation of the reelfitz pit engine and the newcomen steam engine in Cumberland, UK.

Community archaeology at the University of Salford : 2009 to 2013 (2014)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2014). Community archaeology at the University of Salford : 2009 to 2013

A review of archaeological approaches to community archaeology work undertaken at the University of Salford. Projects covered include Dig Greater Manchester. The piece inlcudes a discussion on data gathering and impact.

Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850 (2011)
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Nevell, M. (2011). Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 15(4), 594-606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-011-0159-5

This paper looks at the recent archaeological evidence for industrial housing in Manchester, United Kingdom. The paper argues that a fragmented land-holding pattern developed in a number of city-centre areas during the second half of the eighteenth c... Read More about Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850.

Roman rural specialisation in the north west: boom and bust? (2011)
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Nevell, M. (2011). Roman rural specialisation in the north west: boom and bust?. Archaeology north west, 2, 48-57

This article examines the new evidence for specialisation in the Roman rural economy in the southern part of North West England. In order to understand the context of this specialisation the chronological pattern observed for rural and urban-type set... Read More about Roman rural specialisation in the north west: boom and bust?.

The archaeology of the rural railway warehouse in north-west England (2010)
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Nevell, M. (2010). The archaeology of the rural railway warehouse in north-west England. Industrial Archaeology Review, 32(2), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581910X12817815916609

This article studies in detail two rural railway warehouses of the mid-19th century from North-West England. Structures such as these were an integral part of the branch lines and secondary lines that developed across the network during the mid- to l... Read More about The archaeology of the rural railway warehouse in north-west England.

Brave new technological world (2010)
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Nevell, M. (2010). Brave new technological world

This article explains how 3D visualisation techniques can help make archaeology more mainstream and beneficial to communities and industry

Dark satanic mills? The archaeologyof the world's first industrial city (2010)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2010). Dark satanic mills? The archaeologyof the world's first industrial city. Current archaeology, 21(242), 12-19

By 1850 Manchester had a population of 300,000 and most if its 172 textile mills had already been built. Cotton goods were known simply as 'Manchester goods'. Now archaeology is adding new insights into the emergence of the world's first industrial c... Read More about Dark satanic mills? The archaeologyof the world's first industrial city.

The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry : the example of Manchester and the south-western Pennine Uplands during the 18th century (part 2) (2008)
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Nevell, M. (2008). The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry : the example of Manchester and the south-western Pennine Uplands during the 18th century (part 2). Industrial Archaeology Review, 30(2), 97-100. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581908X347300

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 archaeolog... Read More about The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry : the example of Manchester and the south-western Pennine Uplands during the 18th century (part 2).

The 2005 Rolt memorial lecture. Industrial archaeology or the archaeology of the industrial period? Models, methodology and the future of industrial archaeology (2006)
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Nevell, M. (2006). The 2005 Rolt memorial lecture. Industrial archaeology or the archaeology of the industrial period? Models, methodology and the future of industrial archaeology. Industrial Archaeology Review, 28(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581906X106570

This paper outlines in brief the development of Industrial Archaeology in Britain as a mainstream branch of archaeology over the last 50 years, before then reviewing some of the recent methodological developments in IA. The author argues that whils... Read More about The 2005 Rolt memorial lecture. Industrial archaeology or the archaeology of the industrial period? Models, methodology and the future of industrial archaeology.

A major change in human evolution (2006)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2006). A major change in human evolution. British Archaeology, 30-33

The phrase 'industrial archaeology' is over 50 years old. Technology? Social relations? The world since the industrial revolution, or industry since the first stone tool? This article considers the nature of an increasingly popular branch of archaeol... Read More about A major change in human evolution.