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978-0-521-86419-0 - The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850 - by Sarah Tarlow
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abbatoirs 113, 120, 141

Abbott, W. 116, 117, 120

Aberdeen 96, 106

Aberystwyth 75

Addy, J. 40, 55, 60, 63

advertising 163, 175

Africa 163

Akroyd 135

Albarella, U. and Davis, S. 64, 65

Alcester 143

Allen, R. 38, 58

America 149, 152, 163, 168, 170

Andover 146

Andrén, A. 4

Ardrossan 39

argand lamps 175

Argyll 27, 87

Arkwright 71

Ashmolean Museum 185–7

Ashurst, D. 174

Ashworth brothers 132

Asia 163

aspiration 9

asylums 136, 137, 141, 145, 148

Atcham 146

authority, local 94, 122

town 94, 95, 122, 188

Ayrshire 39, 62

bad character 126

bailtean 79

Ballycastle 173

Barnes 109

Barnet 137, 143

Barnsley 167, 174

Barnwell, P. and Giles, C. 70

Barra 128

Bath 90, 105, 108

Baudrillard 21

Beaudry, M. 182

Bedford 65, 139, 142

Bedfordshire 57, 139

beggars 125, 103, 141

Belford, P. 127, 134, 135, 187

Belper 111, 128

Bentham, J. 153

Bentley Brook 166

Berkshire 185

Bettyhill 84, 85

Bewcastle Fells 54

Birkenhead 112

Birmingham 105, 158, 173

Blackett, Sir W. 110

Blaenavon 132

Blair, G. 114

Blairdrummond Moss 52

bleach 33, 164–8

Blean 143

Board of Guardians 142, 148

Board Schools 138

body 144, 149

Bolsterstone 172, 174

Bolton 132, 166

Borsay, P. 91, 96, 110

Botany Bay 150

Boud, R. 36

Bourneville 71, 133

Bradwell 54

Braintree 184

Branigan, K. and Merrony, C. 128

bread 170

Bridge Union 143

bridges 94

Bridport 187

Briggs, A. 12, 103, 199

Brighton 95

Bristol 194

Britain 28, 194

British Library 13, 15, 200

Broadbottom 166

Brooks, A. 179, 180, 182

Brora 84

Buckinghamshire 68, 180, 193

Bucklebury Common 185

Bunting, J. 166

Burton, J. 111

Bury, J. 18, 28

Busteed, M. 194

Butlin, R. 58

Buxton 54, 123

Cadbury family 71, 133

Calcutta 171

Caledonian canal 84

Cambridge 103

Cambridgeshire 46

Campbell, C. 176

Canterbury 186

capital punishment 148, 149, 156

capitalism 6, 7, 10, 30, 58, 72, 86, 99, 150, 163, 190, 198

Cardiganshire 48, 76

Careys 179

Caribbean 58, 163

Castle Hedingham 185

categorisation 153

cattle 64, 65, 81

ceffyl pren 149

cellars 185

Celtic past 179

cemeteries 112–15, 120, 141

ceramics 68, 91, 97, 163, 164, 170, 171, 186

-Chinese 178, 180

-transfer printed 33, 178–83

Cervantes, M. 180

Cessnock 62

Chadwick, G. 110

Chambers, J. and Mingay, G. 61, 62

Chance brothers 173

Chapone, H. 16

charity 11, 121, 124, 136, 138, 147, 151, 199

Charlestone, R. 173

Charlestown 57

CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology and Theory) 3

Cheshire 70, 175

Chester 109, 133

Chesterfield 185

Chichester 90, 157, 160

Chichester Literary and Philosophical Society 90

child labour 133

Chilterns 39, 59

China 179, 195 see also ceramics

cholera 187

Christchurch and Bournemouth Union 142

Cistercians 11

civic pride 11, 90, 114

clachans 79, 84, 85, 87

Clare, J. 48

Clarewood 70

Clark, G. 120, 122

Clark, M. 38

class 6, 26–7, 86, 97, 132, 136, 156, 157, 160, 161, 171, 192, 197–200

classical past 25

classical style of architecture 93, 96–9, 105, 118, 157, 160

classification 143–5

cleaning 92, 94

-street 103–5, 119

cleanliness 67, 73, 86, 114, 126, 128, 132, 133, 150, 152, 160, 169, 170, 184, 195, 197

clearance narratives 79, 87

clover 51, 53, 56, 57

Clyde, River 71

Cobbett, W. 130

Colley, L. 28, 194

colonialism 190

Colyer, R. 59

Commission for Highland Roads and Bridges 84

commoners’ rights 47, 48

communication and transport 16, 33, 91, 163

compost 184

Condorcet, 156

consciousness-raising 6

conservatism 18, 24, 40, 41, 81, 130, 131, 157, 169, 181

consolidation of land tenure 57–9

consumption 164, 177, 196

contradictions 7

Cornewall, Sir G. 58

Cornwall 46, 70

Cossons, N. 164, 165

Courtney, P. 2

Coventry 142

Cowper, W. 85, 99

Cranstone, D. 2, 4

Crawshawbooth 166

crime 136, 141, 150

criminals 103, 152

crofts 79, 84–6

Crofts, Sheffield 134

Cromford 128

crops, new 51

Crossley, D. 3

Crystal Palace 173

cultivation 41, 62

culture 169, 170

Cumberland, G. 76

Cumberpatch, C. 170, 171, 182, 187, 196

Cumbria 54, 62, 193

Dale, D. 71

Dalglish, C. 27, 87

Daniell, W. 16

Darnton, R. 21

Darwin, E. 35, 63, 95

Davis, E. 62

Davis, S. and Beckett, J. 64

debtors 148

deer 80

Deetz, J. 6

Defoe, D. 58

Derby 111

Derbyshire 48, 54, 143, 166

deviants 136

Devine, T. 81

Devon 46, 54, 167

Dewhurst, L. 135

Dickens, C. 147, 181

Diderot and D’Alembert 174

discipline 6, 143

disease 108, 112, 151

-miasmatic theory of 102, 112, 113

DiZerga Wall, D. 134

Dodgshon, R. 81

Dore 142

Douglas, John 70

Doulton Pipe Works 102

drainage 47, 51, 66

-field 59–62, 88

-marsh and fen 59–62, 88

-storm 102, 103, 133

-tiles 60

dress 169

Driver, F. 125, 127

drunkenness 110, 126, 133

Dudley Flint Glassworks 174

Dudley, T. 119, 121

Duke, P. and Saitta, D. 190

Duncan, J. 39

Dundee 106

Dunfermline 106

Durham Ox 65

Dyos, H. 83

Earl of Abergavenny 171

Earl of Elgin 57

East Anglia 57, 60, 140, 193

East India Company 171

East Matfen 70

Eastbourne 142

Easter Island 55

Economic History Forum 38

Edgeworth, M. 100

Edinburgh 79, 90, 93, 105, 106, 108, 117, 154, 194

Edinburgh School of Arts 158

Egerton 132

Ellis, J. 90, 91, 93

Ely 143

emancipation 24, 125, 157

emigration 79, 81

emulation 124

Enclosure 32, 42–50, 66, 78, 83, 88

-Acts of 36, 43, 46, 116

-by agreement 42, 43, 48

-Parliamentary 42–6

-piecemeal 42

Engels, F. 73

English Heritage 2, 5

Enlightenment 19–21, 23, 28, 72, 122, 169, 178, 198

-Scottish 17–9, 28, 87

Ernle, Lord 37, 46

Essex 185

Etherow, River 166

etiquette 127

eugenics 126

Europe 28, 30, 183

Exeter 102, 103, 149, 151, 153

familiarity of recent past 10

farmhouses 58, 67

farms 58

-increasing size of 43

-machinery 63

fashion 97, 163

fens 44, 46, 51

ferries 84

field boundaries 42, 44, 45, 52

Fife 57

fisheries 84, 85

fishing ports 84

Fleming, Sir M. 70

floating meadows 56–7, 62, 74, 88

forestry 46, 75

Foucault, M. 21, 23, 149

Fourier, C. 73

Fraser, D. 138

Frazer, B. 48

Fry, E. 151

Gaimster, D. 2

gaols 148

garnish 149, 153

gas lighting 94, 100, 119, 132

gender 6, 134, 144, 168, 169

General Views 36, 39, 131

Georgian Order 6, 25, 96, 181

Georgian town 90, 108

Gilbert’s Act 139

Gilbert’s workhouses 139, 142

Giles, K. 136

Girouard, M. 12, 95, 108, 131, 175

Glasgow 114, 154, 165

glass 168

-blown cylinder 172–3

-broadsheet 172

-crown 172

-manufacture 172–5

-plate 173

-window 33, 164, 171–8

glasses, drinking 92

Glassie, H. 6

glassworks 173

Gloucester 151

Godwin, W. 19

Goffman, E. 177

Gold, J. and Gold, M. 83, 84

Goldsmith, O. 48

Gordon riots 154

Gosden, C. 41

Graham, A. and Gordon, J. 84

Gravesend and Milton Union 143

graveyards 144

Great Exhibition 173

Green 16

Greenock 158

Greenwich 145

Grenada 58

Gressenhall 142

Greystoke 62

guano 55

Gwynn, J. 97

Hafod 32, 67, 75–8

Halifax 135

Hall, M. 7–9

Hammond, J. and Hammond, B. 46

Hampshire 72

hand tools, agricultural 63

Harbottle 52

harbours 84

Harrison, J. 73

Harrogate 123

Harvey, N. 46, 52, 60, 61

Hayfield 143

Head, Sir F. 143

Hebrides 83, 128, 193

Helmsdale 84, 85

Helvetius 156

Henderson, W. 200

Henley-on-Thames 186, 187

Herefordshire 58, 142

Hertfordshire 101

Hexham 110

high farming 36, 68

High Wycombe 180

Highland Clearances 32, 78–87

Hindle, P. 45

historical archaeology 3, 9, 197

Hitt, T. 34

Hobsbawm, E. 21, 30

-and Rudé, G. 48

Hobson, J. 95

horses 63, 68, 75

Horsham 150

hospitals 138, 139, 141, 146, 148

housing 33, 125

-back-to-back 108, 131

-rural 35

Howard, J. 150, 151

Howell, D. 76

Howlett, Rev. J. 50

hub 145, 153

Hughes, S. 127

Hugo, V. 102

hulks, prison 150

Hull 101

humanism 21, 31

hunting 44, 74–5, 85

Huntingdonshire 46

husbandry 12

-convertible 55

hygiene 91, 113, 120, 151, 169, 183, 188

ice-houses 84

identity 7, 9, 144, 178, 194

-Scottish 79

ideology 6

Ignatieff, M. 148, 149, 151, 155

illegitimacy 110

immorality 113, 126, 134

improvement 26, 28, 32, 35, 155, 161–2, 182, 190–201

-as cross-cutting ethic 16

-aesthetic of 67, 74, 122, 168, 183, 192

-agricultural 11–3, 32, 34–66, 131, 191, 198, 199

Improvement Acts 32, 119, 187

Improvement Commissions 32, 94, 95, 119

India 171

indigenous people 16, 41, 86

individual 7, 23–5, 72, 82, 125

freedom of 122, 130, 192

individualism 72, 86, 106, 136

indoor relief 139, 141, 147

Industrial archaeology 2, 5, 33, 164, 196, 197

industrial production 30, 91, 190

inequality 6, 7, 9

infectious disease 101

inns and pubs 92, 115, 136, 149, 159

Institute for the Formation of Character 72

institutions 33, 103, 125, 135–60

Ipswich 154

Irish, attitudes to 82

Jewell, A. 65

Johnby Wythes 62

Johnes, T. 75

Johnson, M. 8, 49

Jones and Son 179

Jones, D. 48

Jones, E. 40

Jones, E. and Falkus, M. 94

Kames, Lord 20, 52

Kent 143, 185, 186, 193

Kerkham, C. and Briggs, S. 76

Kerridge, E. 38

Kettering 149

Killock, D. 102

Kilmarnock 158

kilns, lime 54

Klein, T. 182

Kumar, K. 26

Lake District 70

Lambeth 188

Lampeter 144

Lanarkshire 71

Lancashire 52, 165, 166, 175

landlords 47

landscape 13, 32, 34, 161

-rural 67–89

later historical archaeology 4, 5, 10, 29

Launceston 64, 65

Laurie, D. 17, 31

Leam, River 117, 119, 120

Leamington Spa 100, 115–23, 157, 200

leases 47

leBlanc system 165

Leeds 95, 139, 146

Leeds Moral and Industrial Training School 146

Leicester 109, 114, 159

leisure 118, 122

Leominster 142

Leone, M. 6–8

Leslie, M. and Raylor, T. 41

less eligibility 140, 141, 146, 151

Lever brothers 71

Leverhulme, Lord 83

Lewis and Harris, island of 83

libraries 157, 181

light 67, 126

lighting 92, 94, 100–1, 114, 119, 178

lime 54, 57, 88

Lincolnshire 52

literacy 21, 156, 158, 181, 200

Literary and Philosophical Societies 126, 136, 157–9

Liverpool 95, 105, 112, 115, 154, 158

livestock 39, 47, 53, 64–6, 68, 84

local and national 115, 178, 193

London 79, 83, 91, 100–3, 105, 107, 108, 111, 113, 117, 119, 142, 143, 149, 150, 178, 186

London Bridge 109

Loudon, J. C. 111, 113

Louw, H. 177

Lowe, J. 72, 132

Lucas, G. 68, 146, 179–82

lunatics 103

Lytham Moss 52

machinery, agricultural 68, 70

MacKendrick, N., Brewer, J. and Plumb, J. 163

MacKenzie, A. 83

Malthusian check 40

Manchester 97, 105, 146, 159

manuals, agricultural 41

manufacture 163, 164, 196

manuring 47, 51, 53, 55, 63, 68, 105 see also compost

Markus, T. 136, 146, 148, 150, 154, 156, 158

marl 51, 54, 88

Marx, K. 20, 47, 73

Marxist archaeology 6–10

material culture 5, 29, 49

Matlock 166

Matthews, K. 133

Mawson, D. 54

McCloskey, D. 46

McRae, A. 41

Mechanic’s Institutes 33, 115, 136, 156–60

medieval period 25, 64, 136, 139, 149, 191

medieval/post-medieval transition 3

Melton Mowbray 75, 138

Merseyside 112

Merthyr Tydfil 147

middle ages, see medieval period

Middlesex 91

Mill, J.S. 22, 23

Millar, J. 17

mills, 87

mineral extraction 46

Mingay, G. 43, 46, 47, 129, 131

Mintz, S. 170

Miskell, L. 106

model farm 68, 69, 74

model villages 35

modernity 10, 11

mole 61

moral duty 41

moral economy 99, 106, 200

morality 99–101, 106–7, 114, 125, 133, 136, 144, 170

Moreland, J. 4

Morrison, K. 140, 142, 145, 146

motivation 9

Municipal Corporations Act 94

Murray, W. 52

mutuality 24

Napoleonic Wars 30, 49, 51, 125

narratives 79

National Penitentiaries 150

National Prison Inspectorate 151

nationalism, Scottish 28

nature 169

neo-Palladianism 96

Nevell, M. 164–7

New Eagley 132

New England 168

New Harmony 73

New Lanark 20, 71–3, 127

New River 101

New York 134, 188

Newcastle 105, 172

Newgate 149–51, 154

Newman, R. 2, 3

nightlife 101

Norfolk 57, 78, 80, 142, 147

Northampton 150, 185

Northamptonshire 46

Northumberland 52, 70

Northwich 141

Norwich 66

Nottinghamshire 140

Nuisance Removal Act 122

numbers, house 96, 106

Ogborn, M. 103, 105

Old Bailey 148

order 67

Orkney 193

Orser, C. 3, 8, 28

Osterley Park 173

outdoor relief 139, 141, 147

overcrowding 72, 91, 125, 126, 128, 131

-prison 150

Overton, M. 38, 40, 48, 51, 53

Owen, R. 19, 20, 71–3, 121, 200

Oxford 176, 182, 185–7

Oxfordshire 39

Palmer, M. 2

Palmer, M. and Neaverson, P. 5, 128

paper mills 167

Paris 102

parish relief 129

parks and gardens 10, 33, 35, 46, 70, 74

parks, urban 99, 110, 122

past, attitudes to 16, 22, 25, 35, 67, 89, 97, 169

paternalism 82, 124, 125, 132, 135, 137, 192

Paterson 147

Paul, G.O. 151

pauperism 126, 138, 140, 141, 143

paving 94, 105, 119

Paving Commission 105, 106

Pearce, J. 92

Pentonville 155

perfectibility of man 19

Perth 166

Peru 55

Philanthropic Society 124

philanthropy 9, 122, 135–7, 192, 200

Phillips, A. 60–2

phrenology 126

physiocrats 19

physiognomy 126

pigs 65–6, 113, 120

Place, F. 175

planning, town 91, 92, 108, 119, 134

plantations 7, 58, 72, 163

ploughs 63

Pluciennik, M. 19, 35, 87

polite society 181, 182

Pollard, S. 19

Poor Law -Amendment Act 141

-Commissioners 142, 146, 194

-New 24, 31, 138–43, 146, 147

-Old 139

-Scottish 141, 147

Poor Relief Act 139

poor, the 24, 33, 47, 88, 129, 161, 198, 200

popular justice 149

population 30, 39, 40, 48, 81, 91, 116, 129

Port Sunlight 71

Porter, R. 21, 23, 31, 95

Portland Bill 171

Portland, Duke of 62

Portsea 143, 145

Post Medieval Archaeology, Society for 2, 3

post-medieval archaeology 2–4, 9

Post-Medieval Archaeology journal 5

potato 82

poultry 65, 66

poverty 136, 138

power, social 9

Prebble, J. 80

Preston 151

Prestwick Carr 52

Price, R. 17

prison hulks 150

prisons 31, 33, 113, 126, 136, 137, 141, 143, 148–56, 160

privacy 130, 133

private ownership 50

productivity, agricultural 38, 39

profit 35, 66, 86

progress 6, 12, 18–20, 87

Quatt 146

Queenwood 72

race 6

rationality 22, 25–6, 40, 50, 73

Ravenhead 173

reason, see rationality

Rebecca riots 76

Reed 40

Rees, A. 165, 168

religion 25, 36, 41, 197, 199

Repton, H. 74, 103

residency in parish, see settlement (in parish)

resistance 7, 8, 48

Retford 143

revolution 30

-agricultural 37–42, 46, 62, 65

-consumer 163–4, 176

-industrial 37, 81

Rhos-gelli-gron 48

Richards, E. 80, 81

riding the stang 149

roads 43–5, 52, 74, 94

Roberts, J. 12, 15, 64, 110

Roberts, M. 124, 125

Robey, A. 103

romanticism 53, 74, 78, 82, 169, 176, 179

Romney Marsh 52

rookeries 107, 127

rotations, crop 45, 47, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63

-Norfolk 4-course 53, 56

Royal Agricultural Society of England 60

rubbish disposal 105, 195

rubbish pits 33, 105, 183–8

Rugg, J. 113

rural people 35, 37, 47, 129

rus in urbe 101

Rye 52

Sackett, H. 59

Salford 151

salt 169

Salt, T. 71

Saltaire 71, 127

sanitation 72, 101, 102, 125, 131, 134

Satchwell, B. 116, 117, 120, 121, 200

Scarborough 111

Scarborough, Earl of 62

scavengers 185

Schiffer, M. 183

schools 31, 72, 74, 121, 135, 136, 156

Schopenhauer, J. 175

Schuyler, R. 9

science 16, 158

scientific farming 36, 69

Scotland 36, 54, 57, 71, 78

Scott, Sir W. 180, 181

Scottish highlands 45, 57, 67, 78–87

secularisation of building types 136

segregation 126, 128, 130, 132–4, 139, 140, 142, 145, 147, 148, 150, 152, 153, 160, 198

self-cultivation, see self-improvement

self-improvement 12, 16, 121, 124, 137, 157, 160, 170, 176, 182, 183, 193, 198

self-presentation 177

separate system 155

settlement (in parish) 130

settlements 16

-rural 67–73, 83, 88

-abandonment of 70 see also towns

sewers 102, 113, 120, 122, 188

sheep 64, 65, 80, 84, 85

Sheffield 134, 135, 187

shipping and fisheries 16

shops and shopping 101, 175

-window 101, 176

Shropshire 178

silent system 152, 153

SingSing 152

Sinnott-Armstrong 22

skimmingtons 149

Skinner, Q. 27

Slaney, R. 15

slaves 7

slum clearance 91

slums 133, 134

Smith, A. 19, 20, 22–4

Smithfield 105

Smollett, T. 51, 170

Smout, T.C. 16, 28, 47, 52, 57, 73

Snell, K. 24, 129, 130

sobriety 160

social science 125

socialism 30, 72, 135

societies, agricultural and scientific 36

Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle 53

society, concept of 11, 22–3, 110, 125

sociology 23

Somerset 54

South Uist 87

Southampton 146

Southey, R. 82

Southwell 140, 145

Spitalfields Mathematical Society 158

squatters 48, 74, 76

St Helens 173

St Kilda 178

St Mary Cray 185, 186

St Mary’s, Southampton 146

St Marylebone 139, 143

stadial view of history 19, 35

Staffordshire 175

state, control by 138, 198

Statistical Accounts 36, 39, 131

steam engine 63, 68

steam pump 52

stigma 141

St-Leonard’s-on-Sea 111

Stormontfield 166

Stowe, H.B. 83

street layouts 127

Strutt, J. 111

Styal 128

subaltern groups 6, 7, 23

sugar 169

surveillance 107, 134, 143, 145, 146, 153, 154

Sussex 150

Sutherland 83

Swansea 127

Swing riots 48

symmetry 142

Symonds, J. 87

systems theory 39, 192

tai unnos 48

Taplin, W. 200

taste 192

tea 163

technology 164

tenant farmers 47

Tennant, C. 165

text-free zones 4

Thirsk, J. 41

Thomas, J. 21

Thomas, R. 64, 65

Thompson, E.P. 46

Thomson 180, 181

Thomson, W. 193

threshing machines 63

tile tax 61

timber 74, 78

Times, The 141

Timmins, G. 132

tobacco 163

Tories, see conservatism

towns 32, 90–123

Toynbee, A. 46

transportation of prisoners 148–50

treadmills 151

Tull, J. 63

Tunbridge Wells 108

Turner, M. 46

turnips 51, 53, 56

Tylecote, M. 159

typhus 113, 150

Tyrconnel, Lord 103

Tyson, B. 70

unemployment 130

uniforms 143, 144, 155

union workhouse 24

unions, parish 139

United States 58, 73, 182

universities 158

upland 46, 51

Upper Clydesdale 57

utilitarianism 22

utopianism 19, 20, 26, 72, 73, 137

Uxbridge 91, 92

ventilation 107–12, 114, 126

vernacular architecture 115, 131, 193

Verrerie Angloise 174

Victoria Parks 110

Victorian city 90, 91

views 105, 176, 177

Vincent, D. 21

visiting 127

voluntary organisations 124, 136, 147

Vose 172–4

Wade Martins, S. 12, 68

-and Williamson, T. 56

Wakefield, P. 16

Wales 48, 59, 75, 128

Walker, G. 113

Warminster Common 184

Warwick 117, 121, 185

Warwickshire 116

waste 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 74

water supply 101–3, 113, 120, 122, 132, 133, 188

wax, candle 168

Weber, M. 176

wells 185

Westmorland 49

wheat 53

whiggishness 6, 17

whiteness 168–71

Whyte, I. 49, 71

Wilberforce, W. 72, 199

Wilkes, R. 63

Williamson, T. 10, 12, 35, 42, 56, 60, 61, 80, 193

Wilmot, S. 36, 199

Wiltshire 184

Winchester 143

windows -sash 177

-shop 176

Winter, J. 18, 34, 62

Woburn 57

women 7, 23, 24, 128, 145, 156, 160, 169

woodland 46, 47, 51

workhouse 31, 33, 121, 126, 136–48, 155, 156, 160

workhouse test 141, 147, 198

working people 16, 72, 86, 124–62

Worsley 96

Worth, D. 100

Wrathmell, S. 70

Wrigley 40

Wurst, L. 8

Yentsch, A. 168, 171, 182

yeoman’s revolution 38

Yield 35

Yorkshire 62, 100, 174, 175

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations 193

Young, A. 35, 39, 64, 88, 89

Ystwyth, River 78


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