Collection: Environmental History

Environmental history investigates humans’ changing ecological entanglements over time. Its practitioners work over different time periods and geographical regions and draw on methodological ideas and practices from various scholarly traditions such as history, archaeology, geography, visual art and the natural sciences.

This interdisciplinary approach is what makes environmental history such an exhilarating field, yet it can also be what divides it. Environmental historians often belong to different departments and faculties, and at Oxford they are yet to share a sub-institutional affiliation. Hence, they are not always informed of relevant work done by their colleagues within the same University.

The Oxford Environmental History Network wishes to foster a virtual community of environmental historians in Oxford. The aim of the network is threefold:

  • To connect researchers confronting similar conceptual and methodological challenges, even if working across different regions and time periods
  • To showcase environmental history research being undertaken at Oxford and elsewhere
  • To publicise relevant events and opportunities occurring both at Oxford as well as internationally

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This collection contains talks from the following series:

This collection contains talks from the following departments: