Environment, Law, and History

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas recently published a review by Lorenzo Coccoli of Mario Ascheri's Rimedi contro le e...

Trionfo della morte (1446) (Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abbatellis) This coming November 6 the Centre d'Histoire et d'Anthropologi...

The US Library of Congress's online Herencia collection , containing royal decrees, papal bulls, legal opinions, judgments, and royal or...

This past Monday's  colloquium on the legal history of epidemics  went well, I thought. The speakers (Mario Ascheri, Tamara Morsel-Eise...

(Update:  Video of the colloquium here .) Next Monday, 25 May, the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Avi...

Ely Cathedral and the fens A new article by John Collins in Past & Present , "The Long Parliament and the Law of Necessity in S...

I've been busy with other things for a while and haven't had a chance to post, but I've just put up the first draft of a list of...

Yesterday's This Day in Water History had this quote from the AWWA's  Water Quality and Treatment  (3rd ed., 1971) (most comments re...

This Day in Water History recently reproduced a 1916 article from the Municipal Journal: Three Sue City for Typhoid Deaths. Milwaukee, W...

Following up on Sunday's post on disasters , here's more on the subject: Franz Mauelshagen recently posted "Natural Disasters a...

The latest issue of the  Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History  has an article by Christian Strother, "'A Danger Which More o...