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Industrial Archaeology: The Challenge of the Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Neil Cossons
Neil Cossons
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The Old Rectory, Rushbury, Shropshire SY6 7EB, UK.
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Abstract

This paper is an expanded version of two lectures presented at meetings of the Society held on 12 October 2006 and 11 January 2007. It considers the changing contexts within which industrial archaeology in Britain has evolved and continues to develop, some of the issues affecting its wider realization and the challenges of conserving such physical evidence as will allow future generations to gain an understanding of the great age of industry as it affected British society, the economy and landscape.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 87 , September 2007 , pp. 1 - 52
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

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