All Outputs (16)

England's Green: Nature and Culture Since the 1960s (2024)
Book
Matless, D. (2024). England's Green: Nature and Culture Since the 1960s. Reaktion Books

England is known as a ‘green and pleasant’ land, but what does this mean? England’s Green explores how the country’s connection with the environment has shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s, when pollution, pesticides, indus... Read More about England's Green: Nature and Culture Since the 1960s.

Somewhere downstairs: Re-animating a departmental geography collection (2024)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2024). Somewhere downstairs: Re-animating a departmental geography collection. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.003

This paper discusses the re-animation of a geography departmental collection through a study of the archives and map collection of the School of Geography, University of Nottingham. The discussion is situated within parallel examples of work on geogr... Read More about Somewhere downstairs: Re-animating a departmental geography collection.

Seeing more flatly: The Regional Book (2019)
Book Chapter
Matless, D. (2019). Seeing more flatly: The Regional Book. In C. Forsdick, A. Leak, & R. Phillips (Eds.), Georges Perec's Geographies (170-185). London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354418

Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932 (2019)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2019). Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932. Rural History, 30(2), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793319000207

This paper examines coastal defence in east Norfolk between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. From 1802 until 1932 sea defence between Happisburgh and Winterton was the responsibility of the Commissioners of Sewers for the Eastern Hu... Read More about Checking the Sea: Geographies of Authority on the East Norfolk Coast, 1790-1932.

The anthroposcenic: landscape in the anthroposcene (2018)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2018). The anthroposcenic: landscape in the anthroposcene. British Art Studies, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-10/dmatless

Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic (2018)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2018). Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic. Journal of Historical Geography, 62, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.05.013

This paper considers the Anthroposcenic, whereby landscape becomes emblematic of processes marking the Anthropocene, through a specific site, Eccles on the northeast coast of Norfolk, England. The coast has become a key landscape for reflections on t... Read More about Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic.

The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum (2018)
Book Chapter
Matless, D. (2018). The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum. In J. Agar, & J. Ward (Eds.), Histories of technology, the environment, and modern Britain (101-122). London, UK: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576570

Seaview: the Anthroposcenic (2018)
Book Chapter
Matless, D. (2018). Seaview: the Anthroposcenic. In T. Dee (Ed.), Ground Work: writings on places and people

The anthroposcenic (2017)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2017). The anthroposcenic. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), 363-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12173

This paper presents the ‘Anthroposcenic’ as a geographical contribution to debates around the Anthropocene, deploying the insights of cultural and historical geography to ask how thinking through landscape and time might shape understanding. The pape... Read More about The anthroposcenic.

Writing Regional Cultural Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2017)
Book Chapter
Matless, D. (2017). Writing Regional Cultural Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads. In J. Riding, & M. Jones (Eds.), Reanimating regions: culture, politics and performance, 9-25. Routledge

‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new (2016)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2016). ‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new. Area, 48(3), 384-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12291

This paper reflects on Cosgrove and Jackson's (1987) Area paper ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101), discussing its place within British geography in the 1980s, the associated conferences organised through the Institute of Briti... Read More about ‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new.

‘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/S0956793315000175

Otter 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.

Stifle a chuckle: the fields of Kibbo Kift (2016)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2016). Stifle a chuckle: the fields of Kibbo Kift. Journal of Historical Geography, 54, 103-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2016.02.008

Climate change stories and the Anthroposcenic (2016)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2016). Climate change stories and the Anthroposcenic. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2862

Landscape and Englishness (2016)
Book
Matless, D. (2016). Landscape and Englishness. (2nd). Reaktion Books

In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014)
Book
Matless, D. (2014). In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118295687

© 2014 David Matless. All rights reserved. The research informing this book has been undertaken over two decades or more, beginning as a sideline, moving through various divergent projects on specific themes and individuals, and coming together as a... Read More about In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads.