This article examines people's responses to the material objects they inherit or discover in
their homes. Reflecting on interviews with inhabitants of a variety of English domestic …

The development of what Mayne and Lawrence (Urban History 26: 325–48, 1999) termed
“ethnographic” approaches to studying nineteenth-century households and urban …

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 …

The archaeology of modern cities has grown enormously over the past half-century, driven
in large part by developer-funded urban renewal. This activity has utilized a diverse array of …

This thesis has used building recording techniques, documentary research and oral history
testimonies to explore how concepts of the modern and new between the 1870s and 1930s …

The comparative analysis of artifact assemblages is simultaneously enticing and daunting.
New research questions can potentially be addressed but a number of limiting factors can …

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 …

An early twentieth-century assemblage dating to ca. 1913–21 associated with staff that
worked for and lived in the associated hostel of the Robert Sayle department store in …

This book explores how people encounter the pasts of their homes, offering insights into the
affective, emotional and embodied geographies of domestic heritage. For many people, the …

The study of British-made pottery with transfer-printed decoration has deep roots within
ceramics studies and the history of design. While the subject has attracted interest from …