Contents. Lists of figures. Contributors.1. Introduction, Susie WestThe Familiar Past.2.The Processional City: Some Issue For Historical Archaeology, Roger Leech3. The Material Culture of Food in Early Modern England Circa 1650-1750, Sara Pennell4.

Building Jerusalem: Transfer-Printed Finewares and the Creation of British Identity, Alasdair BrooksFamiliar Spaces5.Reconstructing Castles and Refashioning Identities in Renaissance England, Matthew Johnson6. The Familiar Fraternity: The Appropriation and Consumption of Medieval Guildhalls in early Modern York, Kate Giles7. Social Space and the English Country House, Susie WestBreeding Contempt8. The Archaeology of the Workhouse: The Changing Uses of the Workhouse Buildings at St Mary's, Southampton, Gavin Lucas9. Planning, Development and Social Archaeology, Shane Gould10. Familiarity and Contempt: The Archaeology of the 'Modern', Keith MatthewsFamilar Spirits11. Wormis Clay and Blessed Sleep: Death and Disgust in Later Historic Britain, Sarah Tarlow12.

'The Men That worked for England They Have Their Graves at Home': Consumerist Issues Within the Production and Purchase of Gravestones in Victorian York, Susan Buckham13. Welsh Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century Pembrokeshire: The Pedimented Headstone as a Graveyard Monument, Harold MytumOld Familiar Places14.Bolldy Meadows: The Places of Battle, John Carman15. The Archaeological Study of Post-Medieval Gardens: Practice and Theory, Tom WilliamsonAfterwords Across the Atlantic16. Strangely Familiar, Sarah Tarlow17. Negotiating our 'Familiar Pasts', Charles E. Orser. Jr Index.