by Dr. Andrew Seaton (University of Manchester) The two-day workshop “Modern British History and the ‘Environmental Turn’” took place at Lincoln College, Oxford on 16 and 17 September 2026. This event brought together over 40 scholars from a range of career stages and academic specialisms to consider the impact of new environmental approaches on the historiography of modern Britain. I co-organised the workshop with Dr Max Long (Oxford). After advertising the event through social media, mailing lists, and academic networks, we were amazed by the response – receiving more than double the number of applications than we could accommodate. We are thankful to everyone who applied and see this level of interest as a healthy sign of broader engagement with environmental approaches and topics within British history. Our call for papers invited participants to consider how an environmental lens might reshape established narratives in the history of Britain and the World, as well as shaping new research agendas and methodologies. We suggested in an opening provocation that a recent uptick in interest in environmental history in the leading conferences, journals, and textbooks in modern British history suggested a ‘turn’ in the field. Although we were open to critiques of ‘turns’ […]