Alasdair Brooks is a heritage consultant in the United Kingdom and the editor of the journal Post-Medieval Archaeology and of Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter. He is the author of An Archaeological Guide to British Ceramics in Australia, 1788–1901.

• List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction: The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth CenturyAlasdair Brooks1. At the Center of the Web: Later Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Huntingdon Town Centre in an International ContextAlasdair Brooks, Aileen Connor, and Rachel Clarke2. Containers and Teapots: Archaeological Evidence for the Exported Wares of the Caledonian Pottery, Rutherglen, and Its Role in Glasgow’s Ceramic International Trade and IndustryChris Jarrett, Morag Cross, and Alistair Robertson3. “A Trifling Matter”?: State Branding on Stoneware Bottles, 1812–1834Jennifer Basford4. Uncovering and Recovering Cleared Galloway: The Role of Documents in Rural Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Lowland ScotlandC. Broughton Anderson5. The Fall of Big Hair: Hair Curlers as Evidence of Changing FashionsCarolyn L. White6. Food as Material Culture in a Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Community, Worcester, EnglandRichard Thomas7. “Perfection and Economy”: Continuity and Change in Elite Dining Practices, ca. 1780–1880Annie Gray8. Material Culture in Miniature: The Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Miniature ObjectsRalph Mills9. Artifacts of Mortuary Practice: Industrialization, Choice, and the IndividualHarold Mytum10. “Home”-Made: Exploring the Quality of British Domestic Goods in Nineteenth-Century Urban AssemblagesPenny Crook11. Shadows after Sunset: Imperial Materiality and the Empire’s Lost ThingsJames SymondsContributorsIndex

"This is an important volume, and historical archaeologists will undoubtedly find it immensely useful everywhere the British commercial empire left its material mark."-Charles E. Orser Jr., Journal of Anthropological Research "This strong volume of well-crafted papers enhances our understanding of nineteenth century British material culture."-Douglas E. Ross, BC Studies “This book is important to the field of historical archaeology as it provides the necessary comparative framework for all material culture studies worldwide. . . . The ideas here will spark a very important movement in England that will give historical archaeology or the archaeology of the modern world its proper spot in the legacy of archaeology in Britain.”-Stephen Brighton, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland and author of Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach