Category: Publications

New Publication

The University of Pittsburgh Press Twitter Feed announced that a new book, Urban Rivers: Remaking Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America, edited by Stéphane Castonguay and Matthew Evenden, arrived from the printers yesterday. This is particularly exciting, as I’m publishing a chapter in the collection. My contribution, chapter 2, examines the importance of the River Lea in facilitating industrial development in West Ham: “The River Lea in West Ham: A River’s Role in Shaping Industrialization on the Eastern Edge of Nineteenth-Century London.”

Photo Essay

Birds eye view of Thames Ironworks (Newham Story)

Two years ago I published a photo essay entitled “The Urban Periphery and the Rural Fringe : West Ham’s Hybrid Landscape” in a special environmental history issue of Left History (Spring/Summer 2008).  The issue is now online and I’ve uploaded the PDF of my essay here.  To see a lot more historical photos of West Ham take a look at the Newham Story website.