From farmer to factory owner: models, methodology and industrialisation

Presents detailed studies of the landscape and social archaeology of the Industrial Revolution. The volume is divided into two sections, the first dealing with models and methodologies for approaching the period in North West England, and the second presenting a series of five case studies from around the region to show how landscape and social archaeology models and methodologies have been applied in the region. Includes

presents an overview of current theoretical and methodological approaches to industrial archaeology, and provides the background for the four papers that follow, which explore different aspects of industrialisation and attempt to provide different perspectives for the debate on industrialisation in the region

aims to draw attention to the contribution that archaeology is starting to make to the investigation of the origins and development of Manchester as an industrial city, focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

aims to show, focusing on Chester, that the model of industrialisation derived from the experience of places that acquired heavy industries in the nineteenth century is incomplete, and that a more social approach is needed, embracing both those communities that were dominated by heavy industry and those that were not

briefly explores the subject of settlement desertion in Lancashire, with particular reference to the abandonment of the settlement at Stock, near Bracewell, and at Grane near Haslingden, and looking at the causes of nineteenth-century desertion, the problem of site identification, and the management legacy presented by such sites

considers the development of mechanised forms of manufacture in the textile finishing industry during the eighteenth century, its impact on the landscape and the reflection of social relations in that landscape, looking in particular at bleaching, dying and printing processes and at the archaeological remains of the industry