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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Land for the Future: Coal\, Environmentalism\, and Popu
 lation in Post-1945 Britain - Andrew Seaton (UCL)\, Danny Dorling (Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251204T123000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251204T133000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Dr Andrew Seaton* will be discussing a chapter from his book 
 project\, _The Ends of Coal_\, which is a wide-ranging environmental histo
 ry of the resource's impacts and legacies in Britain and the world since 1
 800. This talk considers the National Coal Board's expansive 'land reclama
 tion' initiatives after 1945. These projects facilitated surprising connec
 tions between one of Europe’s largest fossil fuel industries and environ
 mentalists\, particularly by creating ‘productive’ land that might all
 eviate potential scarcity caused by ‘overpopulation’. The talk conside
 rs the practical dimensions of the Coal Board's land reclamation\, recover
 s its framing and reception\, and explains how initial justifications fell
  away in the 1980s.\n\nThe chapter will be discussed by *Professor Danny D
 orling* (Geography\, Oxford).\n\n*Dr Andrew Seaton* is a Leverhulme Early 
 Career Fellow at University College London. He is a historian of modern Br
 itain with interests in politics\, social history\, medicine and the envir
 onment. Andrew's first book _Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved In
 stitution_ (Yale University Press\, 2023) won the American Historical Asso
 ciation's Morris D Forkosch Prize and was shortlisted for the Wolfson Hist
 ory Prize.\nSpeakers:\nAndrew Seaton (UCL)\, Danny Dorling (Oxford)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory (Schwarzman Centre)
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