Conflict and climate change in the Arctic: what the seventeenth century suggests about the future

Apr 20, 2021

By Dagomar Degroot   Environment & History, essay no. 13   In the final article of our ‘Environment & History’ series, Professor Dagomar Degroot looks to early modern climate change to ask whether arctic warming necessarily results in violent...

Thinking beyond the “vanishing coasts”

Apr 15, 2021

By:Coastal Connections- IHR Partnership Seminar: Young Rae Choi[1], Michael O´Rourke[2], Katie Ritson[3], Hsinya Huang[4] and Joana Gaspar de Freitas[5] Coasts are highly dynamic environments. Their constant mutability is what defines them best. However, they seem to...

The battle for land ‘in the national interest’ during Britain’s Second World War

Apr 13, 2021

By Gary Willis   Environment & History, essay no. 12   Our twelfth and penultimate contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by post-graduate researcher, Gary Willis, hones in on the much-contested “national interest” and its role in wartime...

Emotional leadership and environmental crises: a view from nineteenth-century Vietnam

Apr 7, 2021

By Kathryn Dyt   Environment & History, essay no. 11     For the eleventh essay in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Kathryn Dyt draws our attention to the importance of emotive responses to environmental disasters by political leaders....

Colonialism’s climatic legacies

Mar 31, 2021

By Harriet Mercer   Environment & History, essay no. 10   In the tenth article in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Harriet Mercer discusses how the history of knowledge production can help us understand whose voices are more privileged in the...

Deltas after rice: agrarian pasts, environmental futures

Mar 24, 2021

By Aditya Ramesh     Environment & History, essay no. 9   Our ninth contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by Dr Aditya Ramesh takes us back to waterways, this time in southern India. Reflecting on the historiographical positioning...