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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Julie (Finds and archiving manager at Headland Archaeology), author.

Ginnever, Matt, author.

Gaunt, Kimberley, author.

Series:

BAR British series ; 692.

BAR British Series ; 692

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. Peter's Church (Blackburn, England)--History.

St. Peter's Church (Blackburn, England).

Human remains (Archaeology)--England--Blackburn.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Blackburn (England)--History--19th century.

Blackburn (England).

Blackburn (England)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xxi, 232 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1407356496

9781407356495

OCLC:

1520326822