SCHOLARSHIPS FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION MAY 2016

SPACE WEATHER Synthesis of real and virtual data

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Peopling the Green Sahara Reconstructing ecological and demographic history of the Saharan Holocene

The urban development of Roman Ostia FLOOD AND FLOW MERMAIDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES Nature and mechanisms of urban change Scrutinising the ‘water-names’ A cultural history, c.450–1500 and the social structure of urban space of England and Wales

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 1 17/05/2016 05:47 DIRECTOR’S NOTE FUNDING UPDATES TRUST TRUSTS SCHEME NEWS

Academic colleagues and readers of this ‘scholarships for research and education’, GRANTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Newsletter may not be aware that there are because Lever simultaneously established UPGRADE actually two Leverhulme-sponsored Trusts a second Trust – the Leverhulme Trade registered at our offices in Pemberton Row. Charities Trust – with a quite different At the end of August the Trust will Many will be familiar with the mission, ‘to make grants for the benefit of be upgrading its Grants Management Leverhulme Trust, and may well have chemists, grocers and commercial travellers, System to provide enhanced benefitted from one of our grants and for their families’. In the early 1920s functionality. Please note that during for research projects, fellowships or he (quite reasonably) imagined that this this essential maintenance there will be collaborations. The pages that follow give charitable trust would help meet the welfare no access to the online system from 26 details of the Trust’s latest awards for a needs of the growing army of ‘specific trades’ August to 4 September inclusive. We typical selection of Research Fellowships, which were at the heart of his expanding apologise for any inconvenience caused International Academic Fellowships, food and detergents multinational (the to applicants and grant holders. and Research Project Grants. The Board company we now know as Unilever). currently makes competitive awards Personal hygiene and high-quality fresh such as these via fifteen schemes, ranging food were needs that would always be with CLOSING DATE CHANGE from large grants for Research Centres us – but scientific research? At that time the (many millions of pounds), through to so-called ‘Knowledge Economy’ was but a International Network and Research small awards (of a few thousand pounds) gleam in the eyes of a very few people. Project Grant detailed applications: for Visiting Professorships or Artist in Today, the Leverhulme Trade Charities please note that the next closing date will Residence Grants. It also works closely with Trust continues to honour the founder’s be brought forward from 1 September to the National Academies to fund Senior intention, by distributing small grants for 4pm on 25 August, for decisions by the Research Fellowships and (in the case of the everyday essentials to commercial travellers, Trust Board in early December. British Academy) Small Project Grants, the grocers and chemists who find themselves latter being particularly valued by the social in financial difficulty (via front-line charities science and humanities communities, but with whom we partner), and bursaries for FUTURE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES increasingly hard to source in a funding undergraduate and postgraduate study environment that has been moving towards to enable their children to fulfil their The next round of each of the Research fewer but larger awards. Typically, the aspirations for university-level study. In a Fellowships, International Academic Leverhulme Trust distributes some typical year the Leverhulme Trade Charities Fellowships, Study Abroad Studentships £80 million per annum in this way (last Trust will distribute £2.5 million in this way. and Emeritus Fellowships schemes opens year’s £110 million was exceptional), which Occasionally, we have the great pleasure to applications on 5 September. places the Trust firmly within the largest of receiving a letter of gratitude from a twenty charitable foundations in the world. Leverhulme Trust grant holder, who also William Lever – the first Viscount reveals that he or she was able to continue Leverhulme, founder of Lever Brothers and in education only because of a Trade benefactor of the Trust – would no doubt Charities bursary that had been received have been delighted by all of this and by the two decades earlier. William Lever would path-breaking research that has been funded have been tickled pink – even though the by the Trust over the past eight decades. But relative significance of his two Trusts hadn’t he would also have been surprised at the quite worked out as he had imagined. sheer volume of research activity that has been sponsored by his philanthropic gift of Professor Gordon Marshall

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2 May 2016

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 2 17/05/2016 05:47 Peopling the Green Sahara

Richard Evershed and his team will use trends? In our project, we will attempt to Expanding upon earlier work, new a radical new approach to explore the investigate these questions. To achieve high resolution palaeohydrological maps economic, ecological and demographic this we have brought together colleagues will be produced by Nick Drake and Paul history of the ‘Green Sahara,’ addressing from the University of Bristol and King’s Breeze at King’s College, through multi- how Holocene climate change affected College London who have world-leading spectral analyses of satellite images, and population dynamics expertise in archaeology, palaeogeography using digital topographic data. These maps and archaeological chemistry. of lakes and rivers will be correlated with The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert. My work with Julie Dunne at the existing palaeoecological and paleoclimate With only 2.5 million people living in an University of Bristol will involve gas records from the region and the new area of >3.5 million square miles, it chromatographic, mass spectrometric palaeoenvironmental data from the pottery currently supports one of the lowest and stable carbon and hydrogen isotope assemblages, to determine when the rivers population densities on Earth. Hard as it analyses of organic residues, specifically and lakes were active. We will then use may be to imagine today, only 10,000 years animal fats, plant oils and waxes, these maps to determine the contemporary ago the ‘Green Sahara’ was a vastly different preserved in archaeological pottery distribution of fresh water and relate their environment. The ‘A frican Humid Period,’ cooking vessels. Such pottery occurs positions to the distribution of prehistoric which emerged after the last Ice Age, widely in the Saharan archaeological human settlements. transformed the Sahara into a humid record, and our large-scale pottery All the interlinking strands of the savannah with vast grasslands supporting analyses will provide novel information project will ultimately combine to provide herds of large game, and extensive lakes relating to food procurement, detailed temporal and spatial maps of and rivers, home to aquatic species such palaeoecology and palaeoclimate. ancient ecosystems in the region, including as crocodile and hippopotamus. These We will also use the new Bristol waterbodies and native fauna and flora. We favourable conditions led to a rapid Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass will use these to explore how the human population of the area by human groups Spectrometer to radiocarbon date the populations exploited these dynamic previously living at the margins of the same pottery lipids, allowing us to ecosystems, including changes to their Sahara, who exploited these abundant directly date changes in subsistence food procurement strategies over time. resources. strategies related to ecological change. Yet our understanding of the true These new 14C dates will feed into Professor Richard Evershed nature and extent of the ‘Green Sahara’ the work of Katie Manning at King’s University of Bristol is patchy. The rate of climatic change, its College London, who will build on her Research Project Grant spatial distribution and the ecological recent summed radiocarbon probability implications for human settlement distribution work to investigate are poorly understood. How did these fluctuations in regional population ABOVE Palaeohydrology of the Sahara prehistoric Saharan people adapt to such size. Her data will be further used to Desert from earlier work (Drake et al., 2011), extensive climatic and environmental investigate relative population dynamics showing lakes, alluvial fans and rivers. Our change? Did their diet and subsistence and derive evidence for population new analyses will refine this data spatially and practices change over time and how did dispersal in relation to climate driven temporally, to produce detailed maps of fresh this impact on regional demographic ecosystem changes. water locations for the African Humid Period.

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LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 3 17/05/2016 05:47 The third mode of life

The network structure of fungi fungi form extensive mycelial networks nutrients needed to supply regions that allows organism-wide information that connect patches of ephemeral are growing the most rapidly (C). Th e transmission via hydraulic coupling; resources. As these organisms forage, actual pattern of nutrient movement Mark Fricker will be investigating the they continuously adapt to local is then determined experimentally resulting developmental, behavioural nutritional or environmental cues, using non-metabolised radio-tracers and computational consequences through a limited developmental and photon-counting scintillation repertoire of growth, branching, fusion imaging (PCSI, D). Th e model is Fungi cause major crop devastation on and regression. Th eir fi tness depends surprisingly effective at predicting the a global scale with substantive knock- on both the ability to fi nd and colonise distribution of the nutrients based on on consequences for food security. new resources, and to remain connected growth-induced mass fl ows, even in Furthermore, the incidence of disease is in the face of damage and predation. such complex and dynamic networks. exacerbated by climate change, intensive Our aim is to understand how these We now need to understand whether agricultural practices and increased organisms behave in a co-ordinated such a mechanism is universal in trade, and is predicted to increase in manner with no central control system, all the different types of fungal the short-term. However, fungi also and how local developmental processes networks, and whether information provide critical ecosystem services are effective in producing globally transfer in such hydraulically-coupled through extensive carbon and nutrient efficient networks. networks represents a third mode of cycling in the soil through decay of As a starting point, we have communication in multicellular life woody debri, or as trading partners developed a set of novel methods to distinct from chemical and electrical with plants in mycorrhizal symbioses, characterise biological networks of signalling. and are an essential part of the below- fungi. Th e network architecture (A) One surprising observation ground biota. Despite the difference is automatically digitised using state- that emerged early on in videos of in global impact, all these different of-the-art image analysis to give the radiolabel movement was marked fungi share a unique growth form as length and thickness of each part synchronised oscillations fl owing an interconnected fi lamentous network of the network (B). Th ese data are throughout individual colonies or in with highly adaptable morphology. input into a mathematical model that super-colonies arising from fusion of For example, saprotrophic woodland predicts the movement of water and separate individuals. Such dynamics have never been seen experimentally before (although they are remarkably similar to the closing sequences of the A B science-fiction movie Avatar). At this stage we do not know the mechanisms leading to oscillations, their functional significance, or indeed whether they are present in all fungi. Th is provides a rich source of exciting new hypotheses that we aim to test during the grant.

Professor Mark Fricker University of Oxford Research Project Grant

C D

LEFT Th e network formed by a foraging fungus (A) can be automatically digitised to give a quantitative measurement of fungal network architecture (B). Th e growth of the network is used to drive a mathematical model of the internal fl uid fl ows to predict nutrient allocation (C) that is then measured experimentally using scintillation imaging of radio-labelled nutrients (D).

4 May 2016

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 4 17/05/2016 05:47 Mermaids of the British Isles: a cultural history, c.450–1500

The first in-depth study of the importance inhabiting the borders of richly illuminated of mermaids in the arts and cultural manuscripts, swimming through the imagination of Medieval Britain, Sarah decorative stone and woodwork of churches, Peverley’s research will explore our adorning images of the world like the ancestors’ persistent reimagining of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, frolicking on royal sea-maids’ nature embroideries, and parading across the heraldry of noble families like the Berkeleys. Mermaids are slippery creatures. At home In the ubiquitous animal compendiums in a surprising range of contexts, they have known as bestiaries, mermaids were often figured in the visual, oral and written inseparable from the Homeric sirens, cultures of every continent and epoch branded as allegories of temporal pleasures since the dawn of civilization in ancient that lead men to their doom. Yet this Mesopotamia. Nowhere is this more ongoing link with the classical sirens also apparent than in the creative outputs of connected mermaids with man’s eternal medieval Britain, where the figure of the quest for knowledge. Other texts developed sea-maid was indissolubly bound to an this aspect of the sea-maids’ nature or oceanic community identity.I am writing furnished them with more complex guises, a history of mermaids in the arts and as witnessed in the fourteenth-century our Western European neighbours – and cultural imagination of our islands, which mystery plays known as the Middle Cornish to offer fresh insights into our ancestors’ will map the place of these beguiling, Ordinalia, which feature mermaids in a relentless negotiation of topics like religion, and often deadly, figures in the national positive light, using their hybrid bodies monstrosity, gender, war, and authority. maritime imaginary, and explore our (part woman, part fish) to exemplify the Beyond this,I hope that the research ancestors’ persistent reimagining of the two natures of Christ (part man, part God). generated by my project will help us to mermaid’s mutable and elusive nature. By situating British mermaids better understand our own relationship Mermaid sightings were within their broader European context, but with the sea, its legends and its allure. commonplace in the Middle Ages. According attending to subtle variations to determine to chronicles and speculum literature like how and why the creative and intellectual Professor Sarah Peverley Gervase of Tilbury’s Otia Imperialia (c.1215), minds of the British Isles communicated, University of Liverpool the waters encircling our archipelago were rejected, and reshaped Classical models of Research Fellowship home to a burgeoning population of merfolk for different audiences, I hope to www.sarahpeverley.com seductive sea-maids with sleep-inducing demonstrate the centrality of the mermaid @Sarah_Peverley voices and a propensity for shipwrecking to our islands’ various identities – to think sailors. But mermaids and their male about what connects our submarinal counterparts also had a foothold on land, agents to, or separates them from, those of TOP Mermaid making music in Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 143, f. 130v.

ABOVE Mermaids and merman with bow in The Smithfield Decretals, British Library MS Royal 10 E IV, f. 3 and f. 47.

LEFT Sirens planning an attack on sleeping sailors in The Queen Mary Psalter, British Library MS Royal 2 B VII, f. 96v.

COVER Mermaid in a sea of flowers, British Library MS Harley 4372, f. 79v.

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LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 5 17/05/2016 05:47 Space weather: synthesis of real and virtual data

The Earth’s magnetic field forms a the Earth on different magnetic field hitting it, and this is the subject of my protective bubble that shields us from lines. The conditions in the ionosphere research. The protective environment a stream of material/solar wind coming are just right for producing visible light. surrounding the Earth is called the from the Sun; Andrew Wright’s unique The process is the same as when a current magnetosphere and has been studied for research will use computer simulations flows through a fluorescent light bulb and the last 50 years via data recorded from to provide a complete interpretation causes the gas inside to emit light. satellites. These studies have established of satellite observations of this The solar wind does not always that the magnetosphere is highly magnetosphere flow in ooa sm th manner. Sometimes nonuniform, and that we can interpret loops of magnetic field lines attached the response of it in terms of its natural What do the aurora and national power to the solar surface can release energy wave-like oscillations. My research will grids have in common? To answer this explosively and hurl a cloud of material focus on computer simulations of these we need to look at how the aurora comes along with loops of magnetic field out waves and will allow me to conduct to life... into space. Occasionally these explosions virtual experiments to see how the The orst y can be traced back to are heading our way and can give the magnetosphere behaves. The results will our star, the Sun. The material in the Earth’s shield a serious jolt. During such provide a new route to understanding atmosphere of the Sun is so hot that an event the terrestrial field lines and the and predicting space weather. it cannot be held down by the Sun’s material on them shudder and shake. The gravitational pull, and streams away, ever result is that all the electrical currents Dr Andrew Wright outward, forming solar wind. All the are intensified, so we are likely to see University of St Andrews planets in our solar system are bathed spectacular auroral displays. However, Research Project Grant in the solar wind, and life on Earth it is not only auroral currents that are is protected from it by the terrestrial enhanced during such an event: large magnetic field which provides an surges of current can flow along national invisible shield. power grids which can cause failure and ABOVE Earth is surrounded by a giant The interaction of the solar wind power blackouts. magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere. with the Earth’s magnetic field gives These space weather events can As it travels through space, a complex rise to a rich variety of phenomena, and also affect radio communications and system of charged particles from the Sun the aurora is just one of these. They are GPS navigation. Both the UK and USA and magnetic structures pile up in front of located about 100 km above the Earth’s now fund centres focussed on predicting it. Image credit: NASA/GSFC. surface in a region called the ionosphere. and forecasting space weather. The aurora are part of a global electrical The key to understanding space COVER NASA astronaut Scott current circuit where current flows along weather is to know how the material on Kelly captured the green lights of the magnetic field lines and down to the the Earth’s magnetic field will shudder aurora from the International Space ionosphere, before flowing away from in response to lumps in the solar wind Station, image credit: NASA.

6 May 2016

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 6 17/05/2016 05:47 The poetics of plants in Latin American literature

Lesley Wylie’s project will provide the first full-length examination of flora in Latin American literature; drawing also on the fields of anthropology and botany, this interdisciplinary project will show that plants are key to artistic and literary forms originating in the Americas

The pervasiveness of botanical imagery in Latin American literature, as well as the frequent recourse of authors to the garden, the jungle and the plantation, are indicative of the defining role of the natural world in Latin America and of an enduring concern with the relationship between people and plants. South America and the Caribbean are home to over a third of the world’s plant species, and from the early writings of Jesuit priests to the work of contemporary Amazonian poets, flora has been central to the definition of identity in the Americas – an identity that is often posited as ‘tropical’ and considered a cosmic tree in many parts juxtaposed with that of temperate Spain. of the American tropics, appearing in This project addresses the Mayan mythology as the ‘axle’ that holds significance of plants in Spanish American the world together. The tree is also central literature, situating itself in the emerging to Caribbean folk culture, especially in field of plant studies, which starts from Cuba. An understanding of the cultural the recognition of the importance of significance of this tree encodes its plants to culture, including literary felling and burning in Andrés Bello’s culture. A major part of my work will 1826 Silva a la agricultura de la zona be to examine the role of flora in Latin tórrida – a poem which on the surface American literature from the colonial celebrates the agricultural promise of period to the present.I will show how post-independence Latin America – as plants have been key to literary identity not only a shocking act of environmental in the Americas from early modern destruction but, given its cosmological taxonomies of trees and flowers to post- significance, desecration. independence poems about agricultural The research will be conducted production, exploring how plants are partly in Chile where I will spend time at not only fundamental to the subject- the Pablo Neruda Foundation, exploring matter and imagery of much Latin the significance of tree imagery in American literature, but also key to forms Neruda’s epic Canto general, and in Cuba. originating in the Americas, such as the During both these trips I hope also to New World baroque, described by the see at first-hand the flowers and trees twentieth-century Cuban writer Alejo so fundamental to Spanish-American Carpentier as ‘born from trees’. Topics literature. to be examined include references to human hair – considered in early modern Dr Lesley Wylie thought to share the same physiology University of Leicester as plants – in the nineteenth-century Research Fellowship Colombian romance María by Jorge Isaacs, and the dissolution of boundaries between people and trees in recent writing on the Amazon. Although there is a wide range ABOVE A wind-blown Ceiba tree on the of flowers and trees referred to across north coast of Cuba. The Cuba Review, the corpus of texts I will be examining, 1907–1931. one recurrent point of reference is the Ceiba pentandra or silk-cotton tree which LEFT Giant Lupuna, Ceiba pentandra can reach heights of seventy metres and tree, Ivan Mlinaric. Reproduced under diameters of up to three. The Ceiba is the CC BY 2.0.

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LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 7 17/05/2016 05:47 The urban development of Roman Ostia

Based primarily on a close interrogation The project will concentrate on almost twice that of previous estimations, of the physical remains, Janet DeLaine’s four key themes: the formation of urban and revealing its developed road network project will complete a substantial new identity; the nature and mechanisms of and dense urban texture. Complementary interpretative account of the urban urban change; the social structure of urban to this, a fine-grained 3D laser scan development of Ostia – providing a space; and the functioning of urban life. of the standing remains has produced contextualised topographical study of Key questions include: how was the built the first completely accurate ground the Roman harbour city environment developed to facilitate the plan and vertical relief data for the city, essential functions – political, social and contributing to understanding issues The Roman Empire was a network of cities, economic, public and private/domestic – such as the potential effects of flooding. but only two are sufficiently well-preserved of urban life? Who provided the structures None of this vast amount of material, for the full complexity of urban life in the which housed these functions, and the however, has yet been integrated into Roman period to be examined in detail: infrastructure which enabled the city as a the kind of structured interpretative the world-famous Pompeii, and the much whole to operate? What was the balance framework proposed here. By providing less well-known Ostia, harbour city of between private enterprise, municipal a contextualised topographical study of Rome. My project aims to complete a aspiration, and state intervention? How one of the key cities of the Empire, based substantial new interpretative account of did the city adapt to local natural and on a holistic treatment of a wealth of up- the urban development of Ostia, based on a man-made disasters, or respond to to-date evidence and the new questions it close interrogation of the physical remains, broader political and economic shifts? raises, this project will make a significant particularly the built environment, in How did it accommodate a diverse and and original contribution to our broader conjunction with artefact studies and the often transient population? What was understanding of the dynamics of Roman rich evidence from inscriptions. Broad Ostia’s relationship to the imperial harbour urbanism in the Mediterranean. diachronic coverage will be combined at Portus, and to its rural hinterland? with a focus on the second century AD, There has never been a better time Dr Janet DeLaine where the physical evidence is greatest; for a broad-scale re-evaluation of Ostia, University of Oxford exceptionally, even small changes through given the extensive and wide-ranging Research Fellowship time can often be dated very closely, thanks research on Ostia in recent decades by to the extensive use of datable brickstamps both Italian and foreign scholars. In in construction, providing an opportunity addition to many focussed excavations unique in the Roman world for the process in specific areas, large-scale geophysical ABOVE Ostia, view over a section of the of urban renewal to be studied in real-time survey and test excavations around Ostia second-century CE city, showing a paved and as the results of individual human have produced unexpected results, street flanked by wide-fronted commercial actions, as well as in the longue durée. demonstrating the full extent of the city as units, with a residential complex behind.

8 May 2016

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 8 17/05/2016 05:47 The Gascon Rolls project

History has all but forgotten the pivotal role that the people of medieval Gascony played in the political and cultural history of England and France; Carolyn Allen, of the Trust, reports on how a freely accessible and searchable online edition of these unique manuscripts, recently published by Anne Curry, has uncovered their hidden stories

Famous for its quaint thirteenth- and fourteenth-century market towns, its wine, and its ‘douceur de vie’ – or ‘sweetness of life’ – the French often refer to Gascony as real France. The medieval Dukedom of Gascony, which stretched south from Bordeaux to Bayonne, may no longer be on the map, but many locals proudly proclaim themselves ‘vrai Gascons’… unaware that for hundreds of years, most true Gascons considered themselves more English than French. Gascony first fell into English hands in 1152, when the future King Henry II married Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. The lands in Eleanor’s dowry covered a vast area of southwest and central France century to the middle of the fifteenth exchanged and reused across different and the inevitable disputes that led century. In 2006, work began to enable projects. Throughout the research, digital from Henry’s claim to them, eventually online access to this unique resource technology specialists worked closely triggered the Hundred Years War (1337– and, from 2013, the Leverhulme Trust with historians, including Guilhelm, 1453). In 1360, Edward III leveraged the supported a two-year project, led by whose expertise proved invaluable capture of the French king, John II, at the Professor Anne Curry of Southampton for identifying the places and people battle of Poitiers (1356), to negotiate full University, to enable digital publication mentioned in the rolls. sovereignty of Aquitaine, completely of the Gascon Rolls compiled after 1360. Images of the original manuscripts, independent of France; and, although its The project built on knowledge gained along with their translations, are now borders fluctuated, the heart of the area – from earlier work, but also explored the freely accessible at www.gasconrolls.org. Gascony – remained a loyal base of ways digital technologies can be used There is also a wealth of supporting support for the English side until the to enhance access to historical sources, material including maps and short surrender of its capital, Bordeaux, in 1453. for example by allowing data to be summaries to highlight and explain Despite its importance for many of the entries in each calendar. understanding the political and cultural Visitors can search the calendars by place histories of both England and France, and name, in French or English, and the history of ‘English’ Gascony is not the site is proving particularly popular well known, as Dr Guilhelm Pépin – one with people in France keen to trace their of the few experts in Gascon medieval family history. history – explains: “Research on the Hundred Years War and the history of Anglo-French relations has – and still is – focussed too much on northern France. So we have the paradox that – even in ABOVE Coat of arms and nobility Bordeaux itself – most people don’t have granted to the Gascon Bernard Angevin a clue about what happened in English (11 March 1445) in the Gascon Rolls C Gascony.” 61/133B. The entries in the Gascon Rolls The most valuable source of cover a wide range of themes and subjects information on relations between the from high-level diplomatic activity to more King of England and his Duchy is stored local matters including orders to resolve in The National Archives at Kew. Known conflicts and feuds. as the Gascon Rolls, and mostly written in Latin, these manuscripts document all LEFT Each Gascon Roll is made from three the orders made by the English Chancery or more individual pieces of parchment, Court concerning Gascon lands and sewn end-to-end with a sprawling wide- people from the end of the thirteenth gauged zigzag stitch.

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LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 9 17/05/2016 05:47 Women, mining and participatory photography in the Peruvian Andes

Katy Jenkins will use participatory of the social, economic and environmental photography to explore the experiences transformations brought by large-scale mining and perspectives of women living in exploration and exploitation. The women communities impacted by proposed and will be supported to develop narratives to actual large-scale mining exploration accompany a selection of their photographs, and exploitation in Peru explaining why these are important to them, and I will also interview each of them to elicit Large scale mining is big business in Peru, their reflections on taking part in the project. accounting for approximately 60% of the The analytical side of the research country’s exports, with mining concessions project will involve using the women’s covering an ever-increasing expanse of photographs and narratives to evaluate the the country’s territory. However, this gender dimension of processes of resistance, extractives-led development is by no means perspectives on mining, using a participatory continuity and change in relation to the arrival an uncontested process, and the negative photography approach. Participatory of mining, and how women conceptualise environmental, social and health-related photography is a practice particularly suited ideas of wellbeing, development and progress impacts of mining are well documented, to research with marginalised groups, and it in this context of ongoing social conflict both in relation to Peru and across the is widely understood to provide opportunities and change. The project will culminate in world. In many contexts it has been shown for balancing power inequalities and enabling an exhibition of a selection of the women’s that women are particularly affected by the voices and perspectives to be heard that images and accompanying narratives, which arrival of extractive industries, both in terms might otherwise remain hidden, making will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne, and of the types of impacts they experience, space for participants to reflect on their in Northern Peru, in collaboration with the and also the severity of these impacts. lives. I envisage that the project will enable women themselves, and will also be available This project therefore aims to go beyond the women to reflect not only on the direct online. the economic dimension, to explore the impacts of mining, but, more broadly, to everyday experiences and perspectives of consider what ideas of ‘development’ and Dr Katy Jenkins women living in communities affected by ‘progress’ mean to them, their families and Northumbria University proposed and actual large-scale mining their communities. Research Fellowship projects in Northern Peru.I will work with Over several trips to Peru,I will work local grassroots women’s organisations with a group of 12 women, giving them ABOVE Cajamarca, Granja Porcon. Image involved in opposing proposed and existing cameras and training them to use these to by MINAMPERÚ, reproduced under CC mining developments, to capture their varied capture images that explore their perceptions BY-NC-ND 2.0. Water out of place

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, in the past, how people came to understand the 2013–2014 floods. Equally interesting, Richard Jones brings together and map its behaviour, and their practical among many hundreds of other potential toponomasts, landscape historians, and responses to it. How was it that people were examples that could be cited, are the river geoarchaeologists to offer perspectives able to live so successfully and securely at the Severn’s continuing propensity to flood at on the ecological information contained water’s edge when now we find this so hard? Buildwas (Shropshire), whose second element within historical water place-names The achievements of our early *wæsse means ‘alluvial land which floods and medieval predecessors are all the more drains quickly’, and the regular inundation This winter Storm Desmond brought flood impressive when realised that they lived of the village of Averham (Nottinghamshire) devastation to north-west England after the through a period of dramatic climatic ‘[settlement] at the floods’ on the river heaviest rainfall ever recorded in a single change. While still poorly understood, Trent (whose name incidentally means ‘the day fell on the Lake District. Since 2000 there is a growing body of data suggesting trespasser’ i.e. ‘flooder’). such extreme weather events have become that average temperatures rose sharply Few of us now stop to think about uncomfortably commonplace. Major between c.600–1100 CE leading to higher what place-names mean. Perhaps we flooding is becoming an almost annual precipitation and increased storminess. should. One of the principal objectives event. The Environment Agency now Unable to cope with the quantity of water of Flood and Flow is to encourage our estimates that one in six homes in England entering their systems, Britain’s rivers reacquaintance with these names, and to is at risk from flooding, a figure set to rise flooded at an unprecedented scale to form provide the tools to read them once more. over the next few decades. the floodplains of today. In short, the Place-names offer unparalleled windows on This project, Flood and Flow, aims period of place-naming was coincident with the past; but water-names in particular also to address this contemporary threat from the last major episode of global warming appear to hold valuable insights that might an unusual starting point – historic place- on historical record, offering us the closest inform renewed responses to the threat of names. When first coined, place-names parallel we possess for what we are now flooding for all our todays and tomorrows. were designed to be more than convenient experiencing. Anglo-Saxon place-namers geographical tags. Thousands of them it would seem faced Storm Desmonds too. Dr Richard Jones provided detailed descriptions of the local This is where our project turns its other University of Leicester environment. Among them, by far the eye to the present and future. Might it be that Research Project Grant largest group report on the presence of these archaic place-names are once more water. Our project, then, has one eye on perfectly describing how water is behaving? COVER 2013 flooding of the Severn Ham the past. Scrutinising the ‘water-names’ of Muchelney (Somerset) is an obvious example, (OE hamm ‘water-meadow, land hemming England and Wales, we will discover much reverting to the state predicted by its Old in by water’) at Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire). more about the natural dynamics of water English name Myclaneya ‘big island’ during Image credit: Philip Halling (CC BY-SA 2.0).

10 May 2016

LEVERHULME MAY16 NEWSLTTR.indd 10 17/05/2016 05:47 ‘Heartbreak Hill’ and beyond

Drawing on archaeological, architectural, and historical sources, David Petts’ project will examine, through comparative case studies, landscapes of the Great Depression in north-east England in the 1930s

Working in the north-east of England it is not possible to be unaware of the very real impact of the recent economic crisis. Empty shops and closed factories are daily reminders of the consequence of global economic instability being played out in the local landscape of the region. Eighty-five years ago, the north of England was reeling under the impact of another financial catastrophe, the Great Depression of the 1930s, which saw unemployment rates in some areas reaching a staggering 90%. The Jarrow March of 1936, a protest march from Tyneside to Westminster, remains one of the iconic images of this period. Several years ago I stumbled across the story of ‘Heartbreak Hill’, a co-operative allotment scheme in other similar projects in the north-east of The aim of this new research Teesside that had been set up by an England, including forestry labour camps, project is to explore these impacts from unexpected alliance of Tory landowners, industrial estates and new colonies for an archaeological perspective and to unemployed miners and trade unions. unemployed people set up in the heart engage with the direct consequences of As an archaeologist with an interest in of rural Northumberland. Some survive economic catastrophe on a landscape. We historic landscapes I couldn’t resist taking today as ephemeral ruins, others were still will investigate in detail four case studies: a trip out to the site, which lies on a in use, although for different purposes ‘Heartbreak Hill’ itself, a forestry camp in steep hillside close to a former ironstone than originally planned. As well as leading Hamsterley Forest (Co. Durham), the mine. Although, at first there was little to the construction of new settlements, Team Valley Industrial Estate in Gateshead obvious surviving, a closer inspection the Depression also had other effects on and Swarland, a colony for unemployed revealed that there were still traces of the the landscape, some old mining villages workers set up by a private charity. Through infrastructure. I’d always associated this were cleared and spoil heaps moved, and documentary research, recording buildings kind of practical intervention to tackle the farming practices altered. It was clear and even potentially archaeological impact of the Depression with Roosevelt’s that as well as the obvious impact on excavation we hope to try and understand New Deal.I had never realised that there the economy and socio-political life, the the evolution, development and afterlife of was a host of similar initiatives taking Great Depression had also had a very real these important physical interventions into place across Britain throughout the 1930s. impact on the physical environment of a social and economic crisis. We will also Further research brought up evidence for north-east England in the 1930s. take a wider perspective, drawing on land- use survey data, aerial imagery and historic photographs to address the changes across a larger landscape in terms of settlement patterns, building and demolition and developments in farming practices. As a discipline, archaeology engages fundamentally with material traces of past societies, such as buildings and landscapes. This project is going to be an exciting opportunity to apply these approaches to the more recent past.

Dr David Petts Durham University Research Project Grant

ABOVE AND LEFT Remains of the ‘Heartbreak Hill’ co-operative labour scheme, Margrove, Cleveland © David Petts.

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