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The Rescue!History network has produced a multi-author book History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure, which is available from Humanities-Ebooks and in paperback from Troubador (Published April 2010). It includes pieces from a wide range of historians, archaeologists, social scientists and other (independent as well as university based) researchers considering the crisis we now find ourselves in, through prisms of both recent and distant past. See PDF flyer here.
However, the Rescue!History site is wide open for discussion, blogs and other relevant information. As a beginning we are publishing on this site the articles which appeared or are due to appear as a series under the auspices of History Today 2007-8, in their original or final form.
Mark Roodhouse, 'Carbon Copies?', History Today, July 2007
Kate Prendergast, 'The
Last Big Meltdown', History Today, August 2007
Mark Levene, 'Only Connect;
Why History Matters', History Today, November 2007 (the original unedited version 'Why history really matters' is available here)
Jean-François Mouhot, 'Free the planet: Jean-François Mouhot traces a link between climate change and slavery, and suggests that reliance on fossil fuels has made slave owners of us all', History Today, August 2008
These articles and others are also available on the Environmental History section of History Today's website here.
Mark Levene et al, 'Can history help halt the runaway train?', BBC History Magazine, April 2008.
Chris Callow and Jean-François Mouhot, 'A climatic warning from history', BBC History Magazine, July 2008.
Mark Levene, 'Historians for the Right to Work: We Demand a Continuing Supply of History', History Workshop Journal, 2009, 67: 69-81
Prof Colin Richmond, 'A Life's Task' For Rescue!History, August 2009.
If you have information, comments, or blogs of your own you wish to place on this site please contact Marianne McKiggan in the first instance.
Last updated: 11 April 2010