PEOPLE AND THE TYNE: 500 YEARS OF NEGOTIATION Over the last five
centuries, North-East England's River Tyne went largely with the
flow as it rode with us on a rollercoaster from technologically
limited early modern oligarchy, to large-scale Victorian
'improvement', to twentieth-century deoxygenation and
twenty-first-century efforts to expand biodiversity. Studying five
centuries of Tyne conservatorship reveals that 1855 to 1972 was a
blip on the graph of environmental concern, preceded and followed
by more sustainable engagement and a fairer negotiation with the
river's forces and expressions as a whole and natural system,
albeit driven by different motivations. Even during this blip,
however, several organisations, tried to protect the river's
environmental health from harm. This Tyne study offers a template
for a future body of work on British rivers that dislodges the
Thames as the river of choice in British environmental history. And
it undermines traditional approaches to rivers as passive backdrops
of human activities. Departing from narratives that equated change
with improvement, or with loss and destruction, it moves away from
morally loaded notions of better or worse, and even dead, rivers.
The book fully situates the Tyne's fluvial transformations within
political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual contexts.
With such a long view, we can objectify ourselves through our
descendants' eyes, reconnecting us not only to our past, but also
to our future. Let us sit with the Tyne itself, some of its salmon,
a seventeenth-century Tyne River Court Juror, some
nineteenth-century Tyne Improvement Commissioners, a 1920s
biologist, a twentieth-century Tyne angler, shipbuilder and council
planner and some twenty-first-century Tyne Rivers Trust volunteers.
Where would they agree and disagree? How would they explain their
conceptualisation of what the river is for and how it should be
used and regulated? This book takes you to the heart of such
virtual debates to revive, reconnect and reinvigorate the severed
bonds and flows linking riparian places, issues and people across
five centuri
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