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Personal profile
Research interests
I am an historian of infrastructure and the environment across Britain, from 1450 to present, with greatest expertise in relation to northern England. Over two decades, my archival and oral history research has covered: urbanisation; proto-industrialisation and industrialisation; water history; transportation networks; sanitation and public health; flood mitigation; environmental regulation and pollution; and paving, lighting and housing.
Further Information
Funded Research Projects:
Leverhulme-funded 'Life Stories of Infrastructure', Co-Investigator, April 2023-March 2026, £184,000
'CLandage: Climate, Landscape and Heritage, Building Climate Resilience through Community Landscapes and Cultural Heritage', Co-Investigator, UKRI Climate Resilience Programme (August 2020-July 2022), £400,000
AHRC-funded 'Past Floods Matter', Co-Investigator (September 2017-August 2021), £379,000
AHRC-Funded 'The Power and the Water', Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (September 2013-August 2015)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, Sanitation in Northern English Towns and Scottish Burghs, 1560-1700, Durham University
1 Oct 2008 → 31 Oct 2012
Award Date: 1 Jun 2013
History, MA, Seventeenth-Century Studies, Durham University
1 Oct 2007 → 30 Sept 2008
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
BA (Hons), History, University of Sunderland
1 Oct 2004 → 30 Jun 2007
Award Date: 30 Jun 2007
External positions
White Horse Press, Cambridge
1 Sept 2022 → …
Surtees Society
1 Sept 2021 → …
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Interdisciplinary Working and Environmental History
Watson, L. J., 1 Nov 2024, In: Environment and History. 30, 4, p. 695-706 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'The Land is in Good Heart': Flood Mitigation and the Drainage Boards in Cumbria, 1844-1985
Skelton, L., 15 Jun 2020, In: Global Environment. 13, 2, p. 404-431 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Material Matters: Improving Berwick upon Tweed's Urban Environment, 1551-1603
Skelton, L., 19 Jan 2018, Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 . Green, A. & Crosbie, B. (eds.). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, p. 94-114 (Regions and Regionalism in History).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Mastering North-East England's 'River of Tine': efforts to manage a river's flow, functions and form, 1529-c.1800
Skelton, L., Mar 2017, Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World. Morgan, J. & Miglietti, S. (eds.). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, p. 76-96Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Regulating the Environment of the River Tyne’s Estuary, 1530-1800
Skelton, L., 1 Dec 2017, Environmental History in the Making: Volume II: Acting. de Melo, C. J., Vaz, E. & Pinto, L. M. C. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer, Vol. II. p. 241-261 21 p. (Environmental History; vol. 7).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Projects
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Life Stories of Infrastructure
Watson, L. (CoI), Wilson, S. (CoI) & Crapper, M. (PI)
3/04/23 → 2/04/26
Project: Research