Class 8: Themes in Industrial and Early Modern Archaeology

The slides for Class 8 are available to download from here.

Assignment 7

Take a look at Marilyn Palmer’s paper on the Leicester Framework Knitters.

Can you summarise the developments in this industry from the 18th to 19th centuries

How did the industry change over this period? What drove the changes? What is the nature of the evidence?

Class 7: The Post Medieval East Midlands

The slides for Class 7: The East Midlands 1500-1900 are available from here.

Assignment 6: The Post Medieval East Midlands

What changes overtook the East Midlands in the period 1600-1900?

Think about broad changes affecting towns and the countryside and in particular how each are best evidenced (by archaeology or by documentary history?)

Can you come up with one solid example of significant change (enclosure/industrial growth/population movement, etc.) that is evidenced best by archaeology?

Use the chapters from the East Midland Research Framework  as your guide.

Class 6: Towns in the Middle Ages

The slides for Class 6: Medieval Towns in the East Midlands are available to download from here.

You can explore a digital facsimile of the Pierce map on-line. Below is one panel the 1635 map. Other panels and the terrier (accompany field book) can be viewed on the Oxford Digital Library website and also on their Treasures of the Bodleian website.

Treasures of the Bodleian: Mark Pierce's Map of Laxton

Mark Pierce's wonderful 1635 map of Laxton (mentioned in this week's class) is owned by the Bodliean Library at the University of Oxford. Here Nick Millea the map librarian  introduces the map in all its glory.

Class 5: The Medieval Countryside

The slides for class 5: The Medieval Countryside, are available for download from here.