Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks? – Future directions in the archaeological study of post–1550 Britain and Ireland: Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series

Foreword Introduction - Audrey Horning Introduction From crossing paths to sharing tracks - Marilyn Palmer Section One Introduction: Of Practice and Paradigm - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer The Dialectics of Scale in the Historical Archaeology of the Modern World - Charles E. Orser An amorphous farrago? The Contribution of Industrial Archaeology - David Gwyn People versus machines or People and Machines? Current Research Directions within British Post-medieval and Industrial ArchaeologyIndustrial Archaeology - Mike Nevell A Review of the Archaeological Contribution to the understanding of the Industrial Past - Shane Gould Twenty years a'growing: University-based Teaching & Research of Historical Archaeology on the island of Ireland - Colin Breen Irish 'post-medieval' archaeology: time to lose our innocence? - Tadhg O'Keeffe Encouraging interest in the recent past - Tony Crosby Post-Medieval Archaeology: a personal perspective - Paul Courtney An Archaeological Avant-Garde - James Dixon Section Two: Analytical Approaches Introduction - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer Science for historic industries - glass and glassworking - Sarah Paynter and David Dungworth and Justine Bayley Bones of contention: why later post-medieval faunal assemblages in Britain matter - Richard Thomas Finds, Deposits, and Assigned Status: New Approaches to Defined Relationships - Michael Berry Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, Ireland, c. 1816-1832. A new archaeological perspective on Ireland's 'coloniality' - Colin Rynne English Industrial Landscapes - divergence, convergence and perceptions of identity - Paul Belford Historic Landscape Characterisation, More Than a Management Tool? - Caron Newman The Whitehaven coast 1500-2000 - Post-Medieval, Industrial, and Historical archaeology? - David Cranstone The changing countryside: the impact of industrialisation on rural settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries - Richard Newman Understanding landscape: inter-disciplinary dialogue and the post-medieval countryside - Chris Dalglish Section Three: Of People and Things Introduction - Marilyn Palmer and Audrey Horning Lancashire Cotton Mills and Power - R N Holden Material concerns: the State of Post-Medieval Finds Studies - The View From Afar: International Perspectives on the Analysis of post-1750 Ceramics in Britain and Ireland - Alasdair Brooks Post-1550 urban archaeology in a developer-funded context: an example from Grand Arcade, Cambridge - Craig Cessford Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Rupert Featherby Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Nigel Jeffries Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Alastair Owens Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Karen Wehner Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Dan Hicks Underneath the Arches: the afterlife of a railway viaduct - Emma Dwyer 'You knew where you were:' An archaeology of working households in turn-of-century Cheshire - Eleanor Casella Pulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World - Stephen Mrozowski Conclusion: The Way Forward? - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer