All Outputs (3)

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.

Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890 (2017)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. (2017). Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890. In Recapturing the past of Salford Quays (10-29). Salford: Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford

This chapter reviews the archaeological evidence for the development of the Salford bank of the River Irwell during the 18th and 19th centuries in Greater Manchester, UK. The focus is on what recent developer-funded excavations can reveal about the d... Read More about Salford's first quay : the Irwell waterfront 1755 to c. 1890.

Evolving approaches for recording the textile mill (2017)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2017). Evolving approaches for recording the textile mill. Industrial Archaeology Review, 38(2), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2016.1267889

This short paper notes some of the recent development s in textile mill recording in Britain focussing on developer-funded work. Targeted excavation of a mill's power systems can help to explain the site's development.