Living and dying in a Lancashire cotton town : excavation at St Peter's church and burial ground, Blackburn, Lancashire
Franklin, Julie (Finds and archiving manager at Headland Archaeology)2025
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In 2015, archaeological investigations in Blackburn, Lancashire, uncovered the remains of the 19th-century St Peter's church and a large part of its graveyard. The remains of nearly 2000 of Blackburn's inhabitants were found, buried between 1821 and the 1860s. This study of the archaeological, artefactual, and osteological remains sheds light on 19th-century Blackburn, a period where the town was at its peak as one of the industrial powerhouses of northern England. Complimentary historical research into the church and the lives of some of those buried there allow a glimpse of the human side of the industrial revolution. The resulting picture shows Blackburn as a place full of prosperity, pollution, poverty, and opportunity, as it rapidly expanded over the course of the century.
Main title:
Living and dying in a Lancashire cotton town : excavation at St Peter's church and burial ground, Blackburn, Lancashire / Julie Franklin, Matthew Ginnever, and Kimberley Gaunt.
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Imprint:
Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
xxi, 232 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm.
Series title:
BAR British series ; 692.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781407356495 (paperback)
Dewey class:
942.7623081
Local class:
D83
Language:
English
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BRN:
4157214