The Alderley Sandhills Project: An Archaeology of Community Life in (Post)Industrial England

摘要

Despite a great and growing interest in the material culture of modern Britain, few studies shed light on how people consumed and attached meaning to it within domestic settings. Finding a successful methodological approach still proves difficult. Within this field, a particularly noticeable absence is the lack of coverage given to the material worlds of the rural working class. The Alderley Sandhills Project, although primarily archaeological in approach, uses multidisciplinary tools to offer an innovative means of examining how people living in a rural working settlement between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries used and understood the material culture they bought, appropriated and gifted.