This collection explores the interconnected histories of technology and the environment in the context of modern Britain, broadly speaking from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth. It is an extraordinarily rich subject, and one of immense potential. The histories of technology and the environment should be considered together for two compelling reasons. First, the artificial and the natural are not separate; technologies are made from materials that have been extracted and modified from environments, while nature has, to varying extents, been engineered. Technologies are typically assemblages, most often technological systems, with components that can be material or social
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