Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101095

Funded Activity Summary

An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901. This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse distinctive trends in colonial Australian advertising and the promotion of domestic goods, along with the prices of thousands of goods sold by colonial retailers. The resulting analyses will underwrite new transnational histories of empire, commerce and the social impact of mass consumption at the height of the British empire.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 30-06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $326,489.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | British History | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeology | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | British History | Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Understanding Australia's Past

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