Historical Ecology and the History of ‘Individual Landscapes’: Oliver Rackham’s Field Visits to Liguria (North-West Italy)
(2024)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C., Cevasco, R., & Moreno, D. (2024). Historical Ecology and the History of ‘Individual Landscapes’: Oliver Rackham’s Field Visits to Liguria (North-West Italy). In I. D. Rotherham, & J. A. Moody (Eds.), Countryside History: The Life and Legacy of Oliver Rackham (218-232). London: Pelagic Press. https://doi.org/10.53061/KTIQ6027
All Outputs (23)
Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury (2024)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D., & Watkins, C. (2024). Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury. Rural History, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793324000013This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on... Read More about Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury.
Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy (2023)
Book Chapter
Piana, P., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2023). Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy. In R. Cevasco, V. Pescini, & R. Hearn (Eds.), Situating foodways and foodscapes: Dalla tavola al terreno (237-260). Genoa, Italy: Genova University Press
Trees and Woodlands (London, Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2023). By George Peterken. 242 × 166 mm. 416 pp. 300 illustrations. ISBN 978147287013. Price: £40 hardback. (2023)
Journal Article
Watkins, C. (2023). Trees and Woodlands (London, Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2023). By George Peterken. 242 × 166 mm. 416 pp. 300 illustrations. ISBN 978147287013. Price: £40 hardback. Landscape History, 44(2), 127-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2023.2284566
“In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens (2022)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Watkins, C., & Ives, C. D. (2022). “In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 77, Article 127736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127736While cultural ecosystem services (CES) provided by collective urban gardens have been researched for more than a decade, how knowledge of CES can inform the governance of gardens and enhance gardeners’ wellbeing remains a challenge. Retired adults a... Read More about “In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens.
From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services (2022)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2022). From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services. Land Use Policy, 120, Article 106309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106309The paper examines the links between the cultural ecosystem services concept, political ideologies and urban planning. In particular, it investigates the extent to which cultural ecosystem services were considered in urban planning in socialist and p... Read More about From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services.
Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests. Ecology, History and Management, edited by Alper H. Çolak, Simay Kirca and Ian D. Rotherham, Pelagic Publishing: London, xix + 468 pp., £49.99 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-78427-264-7 (2022)
Journal Article
Watkins, C. (2022). Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests. Ecology, History and Management, edited by Alper H. Çolak, Simay Kirca and Ian D. Rotherham, Pelagic Publishing: London, xix + 468 pp., £49.99 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-78427-264-7. Landscapes, 23(2), 167-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2022.2228560
Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
Book
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2021). Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & BrewerAfter the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.
Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918 (2021)
Journal Article
Tekić, I., & Watkins, C. (2021). Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918. Landscape History, 42(1), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2021.1928889Reforestation has been one of the main forestry activities in the karst terrain of Dalmatia, Croatia, for more than a century. This paper examines the history behind reforestation schemes in Dalmatia, a kingdom at the periphery of the Austro-Hungaria... Read More about Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918.
‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history (2021)
Journal Article
Tekic, I., & Watkins, C. (2021). ‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history. Sumarski List, 145(7-8), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.145.7-8.3The French administration in Dalmatia (1805-1813) was short but is often praised by foresters as advanced in terms of woodland management because of their establishment of so-called sacred groves or sacri boschi. Based on archival sources and 19th ce... Read More about ‘Sacred groves’- an insight into Dalmatian forest history.
Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34) (2021)
Journal Article
Law, S., Seymour, S., & Watkins, C. (2022). Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34). Rural History, 33(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793321000133There is a rich and increasing body of research pointing to the significant role elite women played in property management during the eighteenth century. In this paper we examine the contribution of an elite widow, Barbara Savile, to the management o... Read More about Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700-34).
Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services? (2020)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2020). Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?. Journal of Urban Ecology, 6(1), Article juaa016. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa016Despite being intangible, subjective and difficult to measure, cultural ecosystem services (CES) are more comprehensible and meaningful to people than many other services. They contribute greatly to the quality of urban life and achieving sustainabil... Read More about Can we plan for urban cultural ecosystem services?.
Measuring long-term landscape change using historical photographs and the WSL Monoplotting Tool (2019)
Journal Article
Watkins, C., & Gabellieri, N. (2019). Measuring long-term landscape change using historical photographs and the WSL Monoplotting Tool. Landscape History, 40(1), 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2019.1600946© 2019, © 2019 Society for Landscape Studies. This paper assesses the potential of software developed by the research group of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in order to georeference and vectorise historical... Read More about Measuring long-term landscape change using historical photographs and the WSL Monoplotting Tool.
Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene' (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Watkins, C. Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene'. 14 December 2018 - 7 April 2019. (Unpublished)The ways that people interact with trees and woods have varied dramatically through time and from place to place. Today many are concerned about the loss of woodland and might agree with Lord Byron’s Childe Harold in relishing the forest where ‘mort... Read More about Sylva: 'To slowly trace the forest's shady scene'.
'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape (2018)
Journal Article
Lisewski-Hobson, V., & Watkins, C. (2019). 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape. Landscape Research, 44(5), 507-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1493444Recent studies of children have argued that children are suffering from a deficiency in nature experience. Some argue that a lack of experience leads to poor affective relations which for wooded environments may be manifested as fear. This study inve... Read More about 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape.
Trees in art (2018)
Book
Watkins, C. (2018). Trees in art. London: Reaktion Books
Landscape Management (2017)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C. (2017). Landscape Management. In Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 by John ConstableTate ResearchThe viewpoint taken for Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 (Tate T13896) obscures the city and emphasises the rural landscape; much of the middle ground consists of trees, shrubs and grassland. This allows us to explore the way Const... Read More about Landscape Management.
The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree (2016)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C. (2016). The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree. In M. Guest, & M. M. Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. RoutledgeDouglas Davies (1988: 33-34) argued in his paper on ‘evocative symbolism’ that trees had a practical symbolism that derived ‘both literally and metaphorically’ from their being living entities ‘spanning many generations’. He saw trees as ‘historical... Read More about The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree.
‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39 (2016)
Journal Article
Allen, D., Watkins, C., & Matless, D. (2016). ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39. Rural History, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793315000175Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late ninetee... Read More about ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39.
Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines (2015)
Book Chapter
Cevasco, R., Moreno, D., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2015). Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines. In D. Harvey, & J. Perry (Eds.), The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (130-148). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724164