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Your Planet, Your History and The ‘S-Clause’ Mystery

A salmon with a Santa hat leaps out of the River Thames
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The Salmon Clause
Paleography
  • See, for example Harvard University, Geoffrey Chaucer Website, “How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography)” at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/how-read-medieval-handwriting-paleography, accessed 25 Jun., 2024.
London’s Population
The Thames Cleanup in the 20th century & beyond
  •  Sylvia Tunstall, “Public Perceptions of the Environmental Changes to the Thames Estuary in London, U.K,” Journal of Coastal Research 16, no. 2 (2000): 273. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4300035.
  • Rautanen, sanna-leena, antero luonsi, henry nygård, heikki s. vuorinen, and riikka p. rajala. “Sanitation, Water and Health.” Environment and History 16, no. 2 (2010): 173–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20723775.
  •  For a comparative chart of British cities’ acid concentrations in water, you can read Smith’s original report on Google Books: Robert Angus Smith, Air and Rain: The Beginnings of A Chemical Climatology (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872), 332.
  • Veronica Edmonds-Brown, “From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years,” published 21 Apr., 2022, in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/from-biologically-dead-to-chart-toppingly-clean-how-the-thames-made-an-extraordinary-recovery-over-60-years-180895, accessed 26 Jun., 2024.

By Doug

Doug Sofer, Ph.D., is a Professor of History at Maryville College in Tennessee. He's the creator of You Are A Weirdo, a media project that reaches beyond academia to share how history helps everyone understand the strangeness of now. Sofer hosts a podcast, writes a blog, and has penned a book manuscript on this same theme.

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