New Thinking: Flooding and Energy
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
How decoding Erewash, Trent, Averham and other field, river and place names from old maps can help us understand flooding patterns in Britain. Dr Richard Jones, Associate Professor of Landscape History at the University of Leicester is one of Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough’s guests. Her second guest is Dr Rebecca Wright, a Social and Cultural Historian of Energy from Northumbria University.
The research projects featured are:
Flood and Flow: https://waternames.wordpress.com/team/ Forthcoming manuscript Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb which explores the birth of an ‘energy consciousness’ in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.
This episode was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI
Producer: Paula McFarlane
You can find more conversations about New Research gathering into a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
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| 0:40.3 | Hello, energy and environmental problems are closely connected. |
| 0:45.0 | If the world keeps using fossil fuels at the present rate, it's been estimated that we'll |
| 0:49.7 | run out of oil and gas in under 50 years and coal by the end of the century. And the effects of using |
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| 1:08.6 | I'm Eleanor Rosamond Baraklough, and on this new thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas |
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