The role of land ownership and use on industrialisation.

What is it about?

This paper summarises some of the results of a continuing long-term landscape study into the history and archaeology of modern Tameside as a response to a widespread call for archaeology to make a distinctive theoretical contribution to the study of the era of industrialisation. Whilst there are many modern studies of the industrial development of the cities and towns of England, there are comparatively few by archaeologists dealing with the rural fringes where the contrast between pre-industrial and industrial society were often most dramatic.

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Why is it important?

This paper sets out the detaisl fot he Manchester methodology, a landscape archaeology theory approach to tracing the impact of industrialisation.