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The Power and the Water
Приєднався 4 лют 2014
The Power and the Water: Connecting Pasts with Futures is an environmental history initiative that focuses on environmental connectivities that have emerged in Britain since industrialisation.
Researchers from several universities have come together to study how our 21st century sense of place, livelihood and community has been moulded by our links to the environmental processes of rivers, constructed watercourses, energy systems and infrastructure. It is through these environmental connectivities that our local actions are linked to planetary systems.
This video channel hosts the videos that have been produced as part of the project.
The Power and the Water is funded but the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Researchers from several universities have come together to study how our 21st century sense of place, livelihood and community has been moulded by our links to the environmental processes of rivers, constructed watercourses, energy systems and infrastructure. It is through these environmental connectivities that our local actions are linked to planetary systems.
This video channel hosts the videos that have been produced as part of the project.
The Power and the Water is funded but the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The Amphibious culture - historical floods in the Netherlands
Floods are world wide increasing while adaptation to floods is decreasing. In this video Petra van Dam uses the Netherlands as a case study to demonstrate how that culture was until quite recently “amphibious” and adapted to flooding. She will also highlight the fact that present day modern society is not so well adapted to flooding and why.
Petra van Dam is Professor in water management history at the Free University Amsterdam.
This Video was recorded during the first workshop of the Environmental Histories Network at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. The Network was a multi-disciplinary partnership that ran from 2010 until 2012 and was funded under the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Environmental Change Networks scheme.
Petra van Dam is Professor in water management history at the Free University Amsterdam.
This Video was recorded during the first workshop of the Environmental Histories Network at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. The Network was a multi-disciplinary partnership that ran from 2010 until 2012 and was funded under the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Environmental Change Networks scheme.
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The Lost Workscape of Tyneside
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Video about the transformation of Tyneside in Northeast England from an industrial to an post-industrial landscape. It charts the social and environmental consequences of these changes.
Where the North and South Tyne meet
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An aerial video impression of the confluence of the North and South River Tyne, Northumberland.
Arrival on Flat Holm Island, Bristol Channel
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Arrival at Flat Holm Island of ferry carrying some of the The Water and the Power project team members. Easter 2014.
Surfing in the Severn Estuary
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The Severn Bore is a periodical tidal wave that provide a challenge to surfers. This video sows the Bore and people surfing it. Video footage by Alaxander Portch.
Laziness and greed closed the shipyards
I think boats and ships of all types are engineering works of art
where the bottle hit the ship a raised v shaped piece had been put there was this later removed
I started my apprenticeship with Clark Hawthorn in Wallsend in 1981 and done my first year at the British Shipbuilders Training School in Hebburn, it was brand new and I used to cycle from North Shields through the pedestrian tunnel or in the winter on the mid tyne ferries, but its all gone now along with Clark Hawthorne along with all the other shipbuilding and engineering jobs.
I find these documentaries on the decline of shipbuilding and heavy industry in this country etc to be difficult to watch and that is speaking as someone who grew up in London. So many lost opportunities that everyone regrets now. What a waste of talent and spirit.
Then the Witch came along her name was Thatcher she waved her wand, and the shipyards disappeared and the witch sang with joy in her black heart the followers danced and celebrated.
I was onboard the NORTHUMBRIA when launched , I think it awesome it was launched down a slipway considering the size and weight .I know the keel blocks were cracking night before!
As the son of a man that worked in the shipyards as they started to fall apart this doc hit hard. Really well put together, it really stirred up feelings that had long been buried 😢
Very interesting footage, good interviews, no unnecessary over long intro ... well done!
One of the ships built on the Tyne carried me from Australia through the Pacific and canal to England back in 1967, the Northern Star Ocean Liner was the ship, some may remember her.
Like most western (especially British) industry, complacency, laziness and union action made the products lower quality and uncompetitive...
Nothing to do with abysmal management with a "that's the way we've always done it" attitude and lack of investment of course. Or a Government who saw no importance in supporting manufacturing industries.
Don't these come under 'complacency?'@@russellbaston974
I have no idea where anybody got the idea as to Consett being the largest steel mill in Europe. It was not even the largest in the UK. I used to work there.
Me my lovely lady & our little dog have sat many times on the seat at the point on our summer holidays
The rich have just moved their slavery some where else, i worked with Guys who worked at Consett Steel works, they said the place deserved to close, people where clocking each other in when not there and making stuff for themselves
Wonderful footage. A fantastic place to visit.