Output list
Book chapter
An incompetent state? Britain and the traffic accident problem in the Twentieth Century
Published 30/11/2026
Accidents and the State: Understanding Risk in the Twentieth Century
Book chapter
Water for the multitudes: London and New York, 1800-2016
Published 03/2020
A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London 1800-2000, 194 - 214
Book
A mighty capital under threat: the environmental history of London 1800-2000
Published 03/2020
A Mighty Capital Under Threat is a synoptic overview of the environmental history of London from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the new millennium. This comprehensive collection is essential reading for London historians, scholars concerned with world cities in historical context, environmental historians and environmentalists, and all who are interested in the multiple processes of mass urbanization in the early twenty-first century.
Book chapter
Environment and daily life in London 1800-2000
Published 03/2020
A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London 1800-2000, 3 - 21
Book chapter
A once rural place: environment and society in Hackney, 1860-1920
Published 2020
A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London 1800-2000, 3 - 21
Journal article
Published 08/10/2019
Cultural and Social History, 16, 4, 530 - 531
Book review of :West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialised Marshland, 1839–1914, by Jim Clifford, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2017
Book chapter
Drunk driving, drink driving : Britain, c1800-1920
Published 2016
Governing Risks in Modern Britain : Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000, 171 - 194
Book chapter
"Interminably delaying what needs to be done" : Drink driving control in Britain 1970-1985
Published 2016
Transport Policy : Learning Lessons From History, 115 - 132
Book
Death and survival in urban Britain: disease, pollution and environment, 1800-1950
Published 2015
Journal article
Revisiting the idea of degeneration in urban Britain, 1830-1900
Published 2006
Urban History, 33, 2, 234 - 252
This article traces the evolution of the idea of degeneration in urban Britain between the early nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rejecting approaches that reduce this richly eclectic, though savagely negative, world-view to a random bundle of prejudices underpinning the emergence of the 'science' of eugenics, the article focuses on distinctive environmental, medical and anti-urban determinants. Strong emphasis is also placed on shifting interactions between moral and medico-environmental values and prescriptions which served as legitimation for the racially inflected view that residual elements of the inner city working class might soon be doomed to physiological and hereditary extinction.