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We will publish news updates on our work here as the project develops.
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Influence and impact: the environmental movement and policy change
12 Sept 2025How – and how far – has the environmental movement influenced policy and legislation in the UK over the past 50 years, and what lessons can be learned from this work?
Taking action together: The environmental movement in Scotland, 1970-present
01 Sept 2025What can be learned from the past 50 years of environmental protests, projects and policy work in Scotland, and how can this be taken forward into the future?
Artivism and the Environmental Movement: Creativity as Resistance
12 Aug 2025Earlier this year the project convened a witness seminar to discuss the role of "artivism" — the intersection of creative arts and activism — within environmentalism in the UK.
Discussing the history of the environmental movement in Wales
22 Jul 2025From dealing with the legacy of industry to helping develop the groundbreaking Wellbeing of Future Generations Act, the environmental movement in Wales has a rich and important history.
Listening to memories of a movement
21 Jul 2025Our undergraduate project assistant, Eddie Henry, summarised dozens of our interviews with environmentalists. So what did he make of them?
New podcast: Using Oral Histories for Research
25 Jun 2025Toby and Saskia went on the RGS Ask the Geographer podcast to talk about Using Oral Histories for Research!
Building and growing a greener future
02 Dec 2024Project Officer Chris Church reports on OHEM’s witness seminar on building green infrastructure
The Music Industry and the Environmental Movement
16 Oct 2024When it comes to environmentalism, has the music industry lost its voice? Project Officer Chris Church and Co-investigator Oli Mould look back over 60 years of protest music.
On the road with OHEM: reflections on interviewing environmentalists in the UK
23 Aug 2024Postdoctoral researcher Saskia Papadakis reflects on her experience of travelling the across the UK to record dozens of oral history interviews for the project.
The environmental movement in Northern Ireland
20 May 2024The OHEM project has a UK-wide remit. When we came to consider Northern Ireland, we quickly realised we would need the guidance and support from colleagues on the ground in order to ensure we could take the unique context of Northern Ireland into account, and to reach people who were not known to us.
