Channel: Exploring Environmental History 


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Interviews, insight and highlights of the latest developments in environmental history
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Available Episodes (21)
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
Published: Thursday, 02 March 2006 15:20:30
Duration: 18:28
Size: 6.34 MB
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What are the important themes in environmental history? This podcast will examine some of the major themes in environmental history which have emerged over the past few decades. Themes...
Published: Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:20:00
Duration: 23:51
Size: 8.19 MB
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Joint meeting of the American Society for Environmental History and Forest History Society held in St Paul, Minnesota, 29 March-1 April 2006. Snapshots of some papers presented and
Published: Monday, 10 April 2006 15:50:00
Duration: 31:30
Size: 12.62 MB
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Report on the annual meeting of British Environmental Historians held at the Open University in Milton Keynes on 19 May 2006. The theme of this day conference was the use of sources...
Published: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 00:16:00
Duration: 22:01
Size: 9.36 MB
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This podcast looks at the thousand year history of river flood protection in the Netherlands and a report on a conference exploring the complex nature of the relationship between modernity...
Published: Saturday, 22 July 2006 22:25:00
Duration: 18:40
Size: 8.55 MB
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In this edition Poul Holm talks about the development of the new sub-field of Marine Environmental History and the History of Marine Animal Populations Project. The second part of the...
Published: Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:23:00
Duration: 27:27
Size: 11.0 MB
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In this episode climatologist Dennis Wheeler discusses the use of 18th and 19th century ship logs for historical climate reconstruction. In the latter half of the podcast John Perlin...
Published: Saturday, 09 December 2006 18:10:00
Duration: 30:11
Size: 13.83 MB
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This podcast is entirely devoted to Australian environmental history. Libby Robin talks about the unique nature of Australian environmental history including the connection between
Published: Friday, 26 January 2007 09:00:00
Duration: 30:27
Size: 13.94 MB
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Podcast exploring recent developments in Scottish Environmental History. Richard Oram, Director of the Centre for Research in Environmental History, University of Stirling, talks about...
Published: Thursday, 24 May 2007 09:52:00
Duration: 17:08
Size: 15.69 MB
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This special edition of Exploring Environmental History reports on the fourth conference of the European Society for Environmental History which was held at the Free University Amsterdam...
Published: Thursday, 14 June 2007 00:36:00
Duration: 41:27
Size: 18.98 MB
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Mark Levene, founder of Rescue!History, discusses why historians and other humanities scholars should get involved and contribute to the debate and understanding of global warming.
Published: Tuesday, 07 August 2007 22:03:00
Duration: 33:29
Size: 23.0 MB
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This edition of the podcast reports on a conference entitled History and Sustainability which was held at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and...
Published: Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:17:00
Duration: 32:06
Size: 22.04 MB
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This edition of the podcast explores the story of the ozone hole during the 1970s and 80s and what lessons can be learned from this environmental problem for dealing with global warming....
Published: Sunday, 07 October 2007 18:51:00
Duration: 21:33
Size: 14.8 MB
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First of two episodes devoted to environmental history of South Africa. South Africa is one of the most culturally and ecologically diverse countries in the world. Different cultures...
Published: Thursday, 29 November 2007 10:11:00
Duration: 26:31
Size: 18.21 MB
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Second of two episodes devoted to environmental history of South Africa. In this episode South African historian Phia Steyn explores the environmental consequences of the industrial...
Published: Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:01:00
Duration: 20:03
Size: 13.77 MB
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Urban air pollution is certainly not a new problem. During the Middle Ages the use of coal in cities such as London was beginning to increase. By the the 17th century the problems of...
Published: Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:15:00
Duration: 24:20
Size: 16.87 MB
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This podcast highlights two papers presented at a conference entitled An End to History? Climate Change, the Past and the Future that that was held at the Birmingham and Midland Institute...
Published: Friday, 11 April 2008 11:39:00
Duration: 17:31
Size: 12.19 MB
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This episode of the podcast returns to Scotland for a look at the environmental history of Flanders Moss, a raised peat bog west of Stirling. John Harrison, a historian from Stirling,...
Published: Monday, 19 May 2008 22:30:00
Duration: 17:31
Size: 12.19 MB
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This edition of the podcast is devoted to two countries of European Settlement: New Zealand and Canada. Both countries received a significant number of settlers from Scotland and Ireland....
Published: Thursday, 10 July 2008 18:29:00
Duration: 21:32
Size: 12.19 MB
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The topic of this episode of Exploring Environmental History is the history of severe river flooding in the north east of England. With the floods in the town of Morpeth in September...
Published: Friday, 21 November 2008 10:11:00
Duration: 19:45
Size: 13.73 MB
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The inter-relationship of human beings and the natural world, and the influence of the physical environment on a community’s social and cultural development, is very well demonstrated...
Published: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:16:00
Duration: 16:34
Size: 11.38 MB
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