Revolution and continuity? Reassessing nineteenth-century moorland reclamation through palaeoecological and archival research
dc.contributor.author | Baker, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Rowney, FM | |
dc.contributor.author | French, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Fyfe, RM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-10T10:54:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-10 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-08-10T09:39:25Z | |
dc.description.abstract | The upland moorlands of Britain are environmentally and culturally important ecosystems. Yet, our understanding of historical attempts to ‘reclaim’ these landscapes is often based upon incomplete accounts of agricultural ‘improvement’. Studies of historical landscape change have frequently focused on singular ‘revolutionary’ moments due to the limitation and biases of surviving historical sources, which has created a contemporary fixation on ‘reversing’ singular interventions. By combining palaeoecological data (pollen, coprophilous fungal spores and microcharcoal) from a recent study of five upland sites with newly rediscovered archival documents, this paper details the differences between how nineteenth-century actors described ecological interventions and some of their actual characteristics and consequences. Through interdisciplinary synthesis, we reveal how perceptions of ecological change were filtered and shaped by the sensibilities and motivations of ‘improvers’. This enables us to position ‘reclamation’ within a sequence of long-term management practices that shaped these complex ecosystems. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 1-16 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 10 August 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2023.2244904 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RPG-2020-045 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133747 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-5101-4782 (French, Henry) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinary | en_GB |
dc.subject | Moorlands | en_GB |
dc.subject | peatlands | en_GB |
dc.subject | palaeoecology | en_GB |
dc.subject | reclamation | en_GB |
dc.subject | restoration | en_GB |
dc.subject | perceptions | en_GB |
dc.subject | motivations | en_GB |
dc.subject | nineteenth century | en_GB |
dc.subject | landscape history | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental history | en_GB |
dc.subject | agrarian history | en_GB |
dc.subject | landscape change | en_GB |
dc.title | Revolution and continuity? Reassessing nineteenth-century moorland reclamation through palaeoecological and archival research | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-10T10:54:09Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-9710 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Landscape Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Landscape Research, 48 | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-07-27 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2023-04-21 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-08-10 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-08-10T09:39:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | EVoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-08-10T10:54:15Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-08-10 |
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