Hi
A lot of community archaeology projects deal with the 20th century. There are some good articles in the Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage on this. I would also look at Moshenka & Dhanjal 2012 'Community Archaeology. Themes, Methods and Practices'. Dig Greater Manchester has also been looking at early to mid-20th century deposits over the last five years - the recently published 'Archaeology for All: Community Archaeology in the Early 21st Century' covers some of this project and others in the UK. A lot of the developer-funded archaeology in the Greater Manchester region has looked at workers' housing in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Some of this is published in Industrial Archaeology Review.
Mike Nevell
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Hi,
I think you are correct in your perception.
My personal impression is that there are a variety of interests in 20th century archaeology. There is a long-standing interest in WWII and then there is the 'contemporary' strand which generally relates to the post WWII period. There is also a more recent interest in WWI linked to its centenary and a lot of classic i'industrial archaeology' that inludes the 20th century. This does leave a bit of a vacuum for the rest of the early 20th century, at least in terms of people with a specific research interest.
In the developer-funded work that I am most familiar with the 19th century is now relatively generally accepted as 'proper' archaeology although there are still some hold-outs, but the 20th century is more ambiguous. I think that there has been a fair bit of work in London by MOLA (eg. Crosse and Blackwell 1830-1921: A British food manufacturer in London's West End) and at Hungate in York that bridges the 19th-20th century. Here in Cambridgeshire we only rarely encounter early 20th century material but I have published two 1920s-30s assemblages (a department store group from Cambridge in IJHA and a household from St.
Neots in the local county journal).
One other thing that immediately comes to mind is the Alderley Sandhills Project by Eleanor Casella.
> Morning all,
>
> I'm currently pulling together a project proposal to look at the
> archaeology and landscape of the Great Depression in north-east
> England. In the process of doing this it is becoming increasingly
> apparent that in Britain whilst there has been a real burgeoning of
> interest in the archaeology of the recent past, the majority of this
> has focused on the post-WWII period. I've seen relatively few broadly
> archaeological interventions into inter-war period (1918-39), although
> obviously there is a lot of fairly straight architectural/historical
> material. This seems a real contrast to the situation in the
> US/Australia
> Given this I was wondering
>
> (a) Is this perception correct? Am I missing loads of great
> archaeology of the 1920s/30s? Any examples would be great!
>
> (b) If I am right, why is there this lacuna? Why do we find it easier
> to engage with the material landscapes of the modern day than with the
> earlier 20th century?
>
> cheers
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