The Ironbridge Gorge is an iconic industrial landscape, presented
as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a
national narrative of heroic Protestant individualism. However this
is not the full story. In fact this industrial landscape was
created by an entrepreneurial Catholic dynasty over 200 years
before the Iron Bridge was built. This book tells that story for
the first time. Acquiring land at the Dissolution of the
Monasteries, the Brooke family invested in coal mining and iron
production - and introduced a radical new method of steelmaking
which transformed that industry. Drawing together years of
painstaking archaeological and historical research, this book looks
in detail at the landscape, buildings and industrial installations
created by the Brooke dynasty between the Dissolution and the
English Civil War. It also explores the broader contexts -
religious, economic and political - which shaped their mind-set and
their actions. It considers medieval influences on these later
developments, and looks at how the Brookes' Catholicism was
reflected in the way they created a new industrial landscape. In so
doing it questions traditional narratives of English
industrialisation, and calls for a more sophisticated understanding
of this period by historical archaeologists.
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