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Dr Ronan O'Donnell's Outputs (14)

The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture (2021)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & O'Donnell, R. (2021). The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture. In M. Müller (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194866-25

During the Middle Ages most people lived in the countryside. The residents of towns and elite sites and consumers of high-culture and high-art remained a minority, though they grew in numbers throughout the period. The mass of rural people features o... Read More about The pot, knife and the ring: an archaeology of later medieval material culture.

Material Responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England (2021)
Journal Article
Petts, D., O’Donnell, R., & Armstrong, K. (2021). Material Responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25(4), 1165-1193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00595-7

The Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s was a global economic crisis, yet to understand its impacts in material terms, it is necessary to recognize that they were situated within specific local and regional contexts. This article, drawing on the... Read More about Material Responses to the Great Depression in Northeast England.

The Long Process of Desertion (2020)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & O'Donnell, R. (2020). The Long Process of Desertion. In L. Butler, & C. Gerrard (Eds.), Faxton: Excavations in a Deserted Northamptonshire Village 1966-68 (261-263). Routledge

Place and Landscape (2020)
Book Chapter
Butler, L., O'Donnell, R., Hall, D., & Stamper, P. (2020). Place and Landscape. In L. Butler, & C. Gerrard (Eds.), Faxton: Excavations in a Deserted Northamptonshire Village 1966-68 (17-36). Routledge

The Medieval Village Plan (2020)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & O'Donnell, R. (2020). The Medieval Village Plan. In L. Butler, & C. Gerrard (Eds.), Faxton: Excavations in a Deserted Northamptonshire Village 1966-68 (254-257). Routledge

Reading Three Landscapes in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West (2020)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, R. (2020). Reading Three Landscapes in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West. The Western Historical Quarterly, 51(4), 381-408. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whaa113

Previous work examining the interactions between people and their physical environment in the U.S. West has tended to neglect the spatial scale between individual sites, such as settlements and regions. This study seeks a solution to this problem by... Read More about Reading Three Landscapes in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West.

The Archaeology of 20th Century Factory Management: Four Factories on the Team Valley Trading Estate (2020)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, R., & Armstrong, K. (2020). The Archaeology of 20th Century Factory Management: Four Factories on the Team Valley Trading Estate. Industrial Archaeology Review, 42(2), 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2020.1799523

This article seeks to determine whether changes in factory management during the mid-20th century can be archaeologically recognised.1 The 20th century witnessed significant changes in management practice which are understood historically. In order t... Read More about The Archaeology of 20th Century Factory Management: Four Factories on the Team Valley Trading Estate.

'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes (2019)
Journal Article
O'Donnell, R., & Petts, D. (2019). 'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes. Rural History, 30(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793319000049

This article examines the role of particular ideas of the countryside in unemployment relief schemes. While interwar thinking on the countryside has received attention, it has not been examined in the specific context of unemployment relief. This art... Read More about 'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes.

Field Systems and the Arable Fields (2018)
Book Chapter
O'Donnell, R. (2018). Field Systems and the Arable Fields. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (86-101). Oxford University Press

Medieval Colour (2018)
Book Chapter
Huxtable, M., & O'Donnell, R. (2018). Medieval Colour. In C. Gerrard, & A. Gutiérrez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain (742-758). Oxford University Press