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PROJECT Penny Crook.

This doctoral research program explored three key concepts in nineteenth-century consumerism - cost, quality and value - and the role they play in examining the archaeological material culture of the modern world. It encompassed two primary strands of inquiry: one, a consumption-theory driven study of trade catalogues to analyse the cost and promotion of 19th-century tablewares; and two, a close study of production flaws observed in archaeological sherds. These culminated in a consideration of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon DeWitte.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Crisis mortality, a dramatic but temporary increase in mortality rate above the baseline level resulting from a single extraordinary factor, was an important phenomenon in past human populations and continues to affect living people in ways that might be preventable. One of the most important mortality crises in history was the Black Death; in Europe alone, the epidemic killed tens of millions of...

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from 129 Lambeth Road compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from the Albert Embankment site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from the Norfolk House site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Complete summary of price data compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology" in PDF format. It groups each price by set and trade catalogue.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Albert Embankment site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Cumberland/Gloucester Street site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from129 Lambeth Road compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Norfolk House site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Complete catalogue of artefact and quality data compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

This dissertation represents an exploration of three key concepts in nineteenth-century consumerism: cost, quality and value. Broadly conceived as an archaeology of consumption, it evaluates the role these concepts play in approaching the archaeological material culture of the modern world. It interweaves two primary strands of inquiry: one, a consumption-theory driven study of trade catalogues to analyse the cost and promotion of 19th-century tablewares; and two, a close study of production...