Environmental History in the Last Days of 2016: From ‘Trumpocalypse’ to Planet Earth II

December 15, 2016

By Karen Jones, Editor of Environment and History The closing days of 2016 provided the usual moments where my environmental historian brain intersects with the material everyday – walks with the dog in the hoar-frosted early morning, garden-bound cogitations on fruit tree varieties, trying to remember where the particularly good patch of horseradish was on … More Environmental History in the Last Days of 2016: From ‘Trumpocalypse’ to Planet Earth II

Democratic environmentalism in a globalised world

December 2, 2016

By Mark Luccarelli Mark’s book The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865 is published by The White Horse Press on 15 December 2016. We stand presented by something of a paradox: never has the environment been so important to modern human … More Democratic environmentalism in a globalised world

Nineteenth-Century Urban Trees: Britain and Europe: Part II

November 25, 2016

By Paul A. Elliott. Paul’s book, British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History, c. 1800–1914 was published by The White Horse Press in May 2016. The first part of this blog can be read here.   In the first blog we emphasised the importance of interconnections between British and European urban gardening and forestry. Here … More Nineteenth-Century Urban Trees: Britain and Europe: Part II

Nineteenth-Century Urban Trees: Britain and Europe: Part I

November 18, 2016

By Paul A. Elliot Paul’s book British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History, c. 1800–1914 was published by The White Horse Press in May 2016. As we supposedly strive to distance ourselves from Europe, it is always useful to be reminded how closely intertwined and mutually stimulating British and European cultures have been. The history … More Nineteenth-Century Urban Trees: Britain and Europe: Part I

Steps in Tyne: Walking to know the Flow

November 11, 2016

By Leona J. Skelton Leona’s book, Tyne after Tyne will be published by The White Horse Press in March 2017.  People have been enjoying north-east England’s River Tyne for centuries. Thomas Bewick, the renowned eighteenth-century engraver and author of A History of British Birds (1797), was raised on the south bank of the Tyne at Cherryburn near … More Steps in Tyne: Walking to know the Flow

The Estonian Environmental History Scene: publications, exhibitions, outreach

November 7, 2016

[reproduced from the ESEH society pages in Environment and History 22(4) (2016)] by Kadri Tüür, Coordinator, KAJAK (Estonian Centre for Environmental History), Tallinn University Kadri Tuur     The Estonian Centre for Environmental History (KAJAK) was established in 2011. Slowly but steadily, the habit of incorporating environmental perspectives into ‘classical’ historical research has gained a footing in Estonia. Ecocriticism … More The Estonian Environmental History Scene: publications, exhibitions, outreach