What is it about?
This article is an overview of 16 years of targeted archaeological fieldwork to recover information about 18th, 19th and 20th century workers' housing in the cities of Manchester and Salford.
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Why is it important?
Manchester was one of the world's first industrial cities, but most of its early workers' housing has been demolished. archaeological evidence provides a unique way of recovering information about the living conditions of industrial urban housing within the city.
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This article studies other side to the industrialisation process - how people's lives were altered in the new urban cities of 19th century Britain. Increasingly, archaeological excavation is the only way to recover such evidence.
Dr Michael Nevell
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
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This page is a summary of: Excavating ‘Hell Upon Earth’ Towards a Research Framework for the Archaeological Investigation of Workers’ Housing: Case Studies from Manchester, UK, Industrial Archaeology Review, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03090728.2017.1387355.
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