La Trobe Doctoral Research

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Resources and projects undertaken by doctoral candidates at the Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, as part of their candidature.

Site Name Keywords
Burslem Market Place (Stoke-on-Trent, England) • Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site (The Rocks) • Norfolk House (Lambeth, England) • Albert Embankment (Lambeth, England) • 129 Lambeth Road (Lambeth, England) • Viewbank Homestead

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • House • Domestic • Urban • Pottery • Industrial • Manufacturing • Rural

Other Keywords
Assemblage Analysis • Artefact catalogue • Archaeology of Consumption • Department store • Mail order • Trade catalogue • Quality • Middle class • Waster • Mail order catalogue

Culture Keywords
Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) (FOR 210108) • Historic • British • Australian • Euroamerican

Investigation Types
Collections Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Historic Background Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Glass • Building Materials • Metal • miscellaneous • Organic

Temporal Keywords
Victorian Archaeology • 19th Century • 18th Century • 19th Century • Victorian era • 20th Century

Geographic Keywords
London, England • Australia (Continent) • England (State / Territory) • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) • Commonwealth of Australia (Country) • Europe (Continent) • New South Wales (State / Territory) • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Stoke-on-Trent, England • Melbourne

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-20 of 20)

Documents
  • 'Superior Quality' Appendices - Price Data (2008)
    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". It groups each price by set and trade catalogue.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendices - Price Data (2008)
    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.

  • Superior Quality' Appendix - ALB ALA88 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    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.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendix - BMP98 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

    Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Burslem Market Place 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.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendix - BMP98 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

    Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Burslem Market Place 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.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendix - CUGL1994 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    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.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendix - LAM129_73 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    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.

  • 'Superior Quality' Appendix - NOR90 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
    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.

  • ‘Superior Quality’ Appendices - Artefact Catalogue (2008)
    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.

  • ‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology (2008)
    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...

Images Datasets
  • Quality Catalogue data - 129 Lambeth Road (2008)
    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".

  • Quality Catalogue data - Albert Embankment (2008)
    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".

  • Quality Catalogue data - Burslem Market Place (2008)
    DATASET Penny Crook.

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

  • Quality Catalogue data - Cumberland and Gloucester Street (2008)
    DATASET Penny Crook.

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

  • Quality Catalogue data - Norfolk House (2008)
    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".

  • Trade catalogue data (2008)
    DATASET Penny Crook.

    This dataset includes 35,610 individual prices for glass and ceramic tableware from 25 Australian, English, North American and Canadian store and mail-order catalogues dating from 1872 to 1907. It includes bibliographic information about each catalogue and detailed descriptions of each tableware set.

  • Viewbank Artefact dataset (2008)
    DATASET Sarah Hayes.

    Artefact dataset.

Projects
  • Cost, quality and value in historical archaeology
    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...

  • Viewbank Homestead (PhD Research)
    PROJECT Sarah Hayes.

    PhD research undertaken on the material culture of the Martins, a wealthy middle-class family in nineteenth-century Melbourne. The artefact assemblage used for this research was recovered by Heritage Victoria between 1996 and 1999 from the site of Viewbank homestead, in Heidelberg, Melbourne. Viewbank was home to Dr Robert and Mrs Lucy Martin and their six children from 1844 to 1874. In analysing the assemblage, this PhD is particularly concerned with the close relationship between material...