This podcast explores the interaction between human societies and the environment in the past. The programmes feature interviews with scholars working in the field and cover topics such as climate history, pollution history, land use history and forest history.
Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:20:30 GMT Environmental history is a rapidly expanding subfield of history. This podcast will introduce listeners to what environmental history is and why it is needed. In the second part of the podcast Fred Milton, a postgraduate student at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, talks about his work on the development of children’s environmental societies in the period between about 1870-1914 in Britain.