ABSTRACT
The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as:
* the origins of modernity in urban contexts
* the historical anthropology of food
* the social and spatial construction of country houses
* the social history of a workhouse site
* changes in memorial forms and inscriptions
* the archaeological treatment of gardens.
The Familiar Past has been structured as a teaching text and will be useful to students of history and archaeology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
The Familiar Past?
chapter 4|15 pages
Building Jerusalem
Transfer-Printed Finewares And The Creation Of British Identity
part II|56 pages
Familiar Spaces
chapter 6|16 pages
The ‘Familiar’ Fraternity
The Appropriation And Consumption Of Medieval Guildhalls In Early Modern York
part III|57 pages
Breeding Contempt
chapter 8|15 pages
The Archaeology Of The Workhouse
The Changing Uses Of The Workhouse Buildings At St Mary's, Southampton
part IV|50 pages
Familiar Spirits
chapter 12|16 pages
‘The Men That Worked For England They Have Their Graves At Home’
Consumerist Issues Within The Production And Purchase Of Gravestones In Victorian York
chapter 13|16 pages
Welsh Cultural Identity In Nineteenth-Century Pembrokeshire
The Pedimented Headstone As A Graveyard Monument
part V|30 pages
Old Familiar Places
part VI|25 pages
Afterwords Across The Atlantic
