Eleanor Conlin Casella is a historical archaeologist, with particular expertise in colonial and industrial archaeology. Currently a Professor at the University of Tasmania, her work primarily focuses on 19th century institutional sites within their wider global historic contexts.
Michael Nevell is the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England, based at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and an Honorary Research Fellow in Industrial Archaeology at the University of Salford. He was also the founding Head of Archaeology at the Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford (2009-2020).
Hanna Steyne is an archaeologist with expertise in maritime, industrial, and post-medieval archaeology. She has worked on archaeological sites on land and in the inter-tidal zone, and as a qualified commercial diver and has also led research on sites underwater dating from the prehistoric to the modern period.

Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - have emerged over the last decade. This approach interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity, environmental impacts, and social legacy within our globalized world.
Through a broad international and multi-period set of chapters, this volume explores the complex origins, processes, and development of industrialization through both its physical remains and human consequences - both the good and the bad. It provides a diverse material framework for understanding our modern world, from its industrial origins through its future paths in the 21st century.