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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Publications

(with Peter Neaverson) Industry in the Landscape, 1700-1900 (History of the British Landscape series Routledge, 1996)

(with Peter Neaverson) Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice (Routledge, 1998)

(with Peter Neaverson), 'Home as workplace in 19th century Wiltshire and Gloucestershire' (2004) Textile History, 35/1, pp. 27-57

(with Peter Neaverson), 'Handloom weaving in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire in the 19th century: the building evidence' (2003) Post-Medieval Archaeology, 37/1. pp. 126-158

(ed. with PS Barnwell and Malcolm Airs) The Vernacular Workshop: from craft to industry (CBA Research report 140, 2004)

(with Peter Neaverson) The Textile Industry of south-west England: a Social Archaeology (Tempus, 2005)

(ed. with David Gwyn) Understanding the Workplace; a Research Framework for Industrial Archaeology in Britain forming Vol.XXVII of Industrial Archaeology Review May 2005.

Archaeology as a Discipline – Industrial Archaeology in The Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed, Deborah Pearsall, Elsevier, 2007.

(ed. with PS Barnwell) Landscape History after Hoskins: Post-Medieval Landscapes, Windgather 2007.