England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s
- Event type
- Seminar
- Series
- London Group of Historical Geographers
- Address
- Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- David Matless (University of Nottingham)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
Drawing on material from the book England’s Green (2024), this talk will consider the shaping of environmental concern in England since the 1960s, addressing cultural and political debates around agriculture, nature and climate, and setting environmentalism in relation to wider cultural attention to the ‘Green’.
David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of England’s Green (2024), About England (2023), In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014) and Landscape and Englishness (1998).
Please note that registration for this seminar will close 24 hours in advance so that the meeting link can be distributed to registered attendees.
All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but booking is required.
