Events
Workshops, witness seminars and research seminars
OHEM will convene a series of workshops and events to inform interviewee selection, interview topics and in-depth discussion of the history of the environmental movement over the last fifty years, as well as reporting on progress with the research.
Seminar Series on the environmental movement (Spring 2025)
We are delighted to announce a series of free seminars on the environmental movement, hosted by the London Group of Historical Geographers.
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and all five seminars are available online and two are also available in person at the Wolfson Room I (NB01), Institute of Historical Research, North Block, Senate House, University of London.
For further details please visit the LGHG homepage or the seminar listing on the IRH website. These seminars are free and open to all but booking is essential. You just click the link on the relevant seminar listed on the IHR website and then have to complete a brief form so that you can receive a secure link 24 hours before each seminar.
21 January 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]
Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)
Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms.
4 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Toby Butler (Royal Holloway, University of London) with Mary Stewart (National Life Stories, British Library)
National Life Stories of the environmental movement in the UK, 1970–2020.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.
18 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]
Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield)
Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain.
4 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]
David Matless (University of Nottingham)
England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.
18 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]
Paul Merchant (National Life Stories, British Library)
Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories.
For supporting this seminar series, we are grateful to King’s College London; The Open University; Queen Mary University of London; Royal Holloway, University of London; UCL; and University of Sussex.
Convenors: Felix Driver (Royal Holloway), Margot Finn (UCL), Innes M. Keighren (Royal Holloway), and Miles Ogborn (Queen Mary).
