Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the development of and current in historical archaeology in Britain. Early post-war efforts towards the conservation of post-medieval sites and buried remains, and towards the consolidation of the academic study of modern archaeological remains, are sketched. The emergence of mature post-medieval and industrial archaeologies during the 1970s and 1980s is described, with particular reference to material culture studies, landscape archaeology, buildings and industrial archaeology, church archaeology, and maritime archaeology. The disciplinary fragmentation and academic critique of the 1990s is then considered, before an assessment of the contemporary vibrant diversity of historical archaeology in Britain that has emerged during the 2000s, with particular reference to heritage management, archaeologies of the recent and contemporary past, global and postcolonial contexts, and the archaeology of British identity. Prospects and challenges for the future are briefly considered.
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