Starting with fragments from a ceramic figurine inscribed “Death of Nelson,” this chapter assesses the results of a long collaboration between Tim Murray and Alan Mayne to interpret the “Little Lon” archaeological site in Melbourne. Their debunking of the nineteenth-century “slum” stereotypes that clouded the understanding of this and similar inner-city neighbourhoods in Australasia, Britain, and North America has become widely known. So, too, is their telling of particular stories about obscure people and places in the past. “Death of Nelson,” found in the cesspit remains of a small house owned by John Moloney, an illiterate Irish labourer, epitomizes their approach. But have such stories advanced broader understanding of the history of modern cities? Have their efforts to interweave documentary and archaeological evidence produced anything methodologically new?