Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850

Nevell, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2827-9977 2011, 'Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850' , International Journal for Historical Archaeology, 15 (4) , pp. 594-606.

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Abstract

This paper looks at the recent archaeological evidence for industrial housing in Manchester, United Kingdom. The paper argues that a fragmented land-holding pattern developed in a number of city-centre areas during the second half of the eighteenth century. That this land-holding pattern made these areas susceptible to overcrowding through the domestic redevelopment of back yard plots and the conversion of older housing to tenements. This redevelopment was at its most acute during the peak decades of population growth in the city, 1800-40, and this led to the slum conditions of poverty, disease and overcrowding recorded in contemporary accounts from the mid-nineteenth century.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Built and Human Environment Memory, Text and Place
Schools:	Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences > Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal for Historical Archaeology
Publisher:	Springer
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	1092-7697
Depositing User:	Dr Michael Nevell
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2012 16:15
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 14:03
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/19367

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