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An Environmental History of a River\u2019s Battle for Protection 1529\u20132015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Leona J. Skelton<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PEOPLE AND THE TYNE: 500 YEARS OF NEGOTIATION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Over the last five centuries, North-East England\u2019s River Tyne went largely with the flow as it rode with us on a rollercoaster from technologically limited early modern oligarchy, to large-scale Victorian \u2018improvement\u2019, to twentieth-century deoxygenation and twenty-first-century efforts to expand biodiversity. Studying five centuries of Tyne conservatorship reveals that 1855 to 1972 was a blip on the graph of environmental concern, preceded and followed by more sustainable engagement and a fairer negotiation with the river\u2019s forces and expressions as a whole and natural system, albeit driven by different motivations. Even during this blip, however, several organisations, tried to protect the river\u2019s environmental health from harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Tyne study offers a template for a future body of work on British rivers that dislodges the Thames as the river of choice in British environmental history. And it undermines traditional approaches to rivers as passive backdrops of human activities. Departing from narratives that equated change with improvement, or with loss and destruction, it moves away from morally loaded notions of better or worse, and even dead, rivers. The book fully situates the Tyne\u2019s fluvial transformations within political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual contexts. With such a long view, we can objectify ourselves through our descendants\u2019 eyes, reconnecting us not only to our past, but also to our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us sit with the Tyne itself, some of its salmon, a seventeenth-century Tyne River Court Juror, some nineteenth-century Tyne Improvement Commissioners, a 1920s biologist, a twentieth-century Tyne angler, shipbuilder and council planner and some twenty-first-century Tyne Rivers Trust volunteers. Where would they agree and disagree? How would they explain their conceptualisation of what the river is for and how it should be used and regulated? This book takes you to the heart of such virtual debates to revive, reconnect and reinvigorate the severed bonds and flows linking riparian places, issues and people across five centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE AUTHOR<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An environmental historian of water, rivers and sanitation infrastructure, Leona J. Skelton is Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow in the Humanities at Northumbria University in Newcastle. Her work focuses on the two-way interactions between people and the environment, developments in environmental attitudes and regulation and how dramatic environmental change has shaped economic, cultural and social lives and livelihoods across northern England and Scotland between 1500 and the present day. Her first monograph was Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700<\/em> (London: Routledge, 2015). Between 2012 and 2015, she contributed to two of Prof. Peter Coates\u2019 Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded environmental history research projects as a Research Assistant: \u2018The Places that Speak to Us and the Publics we Talk with\u2019 and \u2018The Power and the Water: Reconnecting Pasts with Futures\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Tyne after Tyne is an excellent book which warrants a broad readership. The book will be of interest not only to river historians and those with a specific interest in Northeast England, but to historians, and especially environmental historians, more broadly. The broad time-sweep taken within the book is of value to those wishing to trace environmental concerns more generally, whilst the methodological insights and conceptual arguments offer a useful blueprint for future historical scholarship.’<\/p>Mark Riley<\/strong> \u2013 Environment and History<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘\u2026 tracks the changing meanings of conservation alongside the changing set of conservators who managed and utilized a river that increasingly turned into an economic system.’<\/p>Elizabeth Hameeteman<\/strong> \u2013 Environmental History<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘Tyne after Tyne is an interesting and welcome addition to the field of river history.’<\/p>Leslie Tomory<\/strong> \u2013 H-Net<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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CONTENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1. \u2018Hurting the River of Tine\u2019: Protecting a Pre-Modern River Estuary, 1529\u20131850
Chapter 2. \u2018Tinkering\u2019 the Tyne: Increasing Demand for Structural Change, 1655\u20131855
Chapter 3. Creating a Grand and Deep River: The Tyne Improvement Commission, 1850\u20131968
Chapter 4. Fish in the Tyne: The Tyne Salmon Conservancy, 1866\u20131950
Chapter 5. Testing the Troubled Waters: SCORP\u2019s Tyne Sub-committee and a Succession of Unsuccessful Reports, 1921\u20131945
Chapter 6: \u2018A Medieval Street of Squalor\u2019: The Final Demand for a Clean-Up, 1950\u20131975
Chapter 7. Damming the Tyne: The Creation and Impact of Kielder Reservoir, 1975\u20132015
Chapter 8. \u2018A Big River?\u2019: Regeneration, Tourism and the Cultural Meaning of the Tyne, 1972\u20132015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publication date, 1 March 2017 (paperback 9 April 2021). 256 pp.
ISBN 978-1-874267-95-9 (HB) \u00a365
ISBN 978-1-912186-25-9 (PB) \u00a327<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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