Andrew Seaton

Academic position: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Department:History

Email address: a.seaton@ucl.ac.uk

URL: andrew-seaton.com

Twitter: @AndrewSeaton 
 

Biography:

Andrew is a historian of modern Britain who writes about the history of medicine and the environment, politics, and social history. He trained in both the UK and the US, holding a Ph.D in History from New York University (NYU). His first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution (Yale, 2023), was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Andrew is currently researching a new book project on the history of the ‘ends’ of coal in Britain since the nineteenth century that considers the resource’s impacts and legacies on landscape, environmentalism, health, population, empire, and decolonisation. 

Research Projects:

Grants:

•   Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship: ‘The Ends of Coal’ (2023-2026)

Publications:

• Andrew Seaton, ‘Environment, Welfare, and Britain’s Place in an “Overpopulated” World’, in Sarah Crook Sarah Kenny eds. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History (forthcoming).
• Andrew Seaton, ‘Environmental History and New Directions in Modern British Historiography’, Twentieth Century British History 30, no. 3 (2019): 447-456.

Teaching:

• HIST0906, ‘Environmentalism in Britain and its Empire since 1800’, this course is currently being offered as an undergraduate advanced seminar.
• GEOG0183, ‘Anthropocene Studies’, this course will be taught in the 2024/2025 academic year.