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The Lea: A Suburban Industrial River, 1855-1915.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged East London, Environmental History, Industrial Rivers, River Lea, West Ham on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am working on a paper about the transformation of the Lower Lea River (including the Bow Back Rivers and Bow Creek) into an industrial river network, during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. As I write the paper I will be creating some GIS maps of the area [...]

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This webpage is intended to introduce some of the major themes of my research. My PhD dissertation in on the urban environmental history of West Ham.
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We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it." - Aldo Leopold (1938)
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