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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.

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 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.

‘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.