Find publications, photos and other media connected to the project by following the links below and clicking through the galleries.
In preparation
[In prepr. 2025] Reimagining Waste Landscapes [monograph]. London: UCL Press
In Press. “What Makes a Wasteland? A Contemporary Archaeology of Urban Waste Sites.” Historical Archaeology, (Special Issue: Urban Dissonance).
[view preprint here]
Published publications
2024. “How second world war bomb rubble was used to make 135 football pitches in east London”. The Conversation, 3 January. https://theconversation.com/how-second-world-war-bomb-rubble-was-used-to-make-135-football-pitches-in-east-london-218672.
2024. “Rubble Archaeology on the North Edinburgh Shoreline: Creative Research in the Time of COVID-19”. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 35(1), 24-57. 10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1650.
2024 [ebook out July 2023]. “Of Blaes and Bings: The (Non)Toxic Heritage of the West Lothian Oil Shale Industry.” In Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice, edited by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May, 35–49. London: Routledge. 10.4324/9781003365259-5.
2023. “Gaining Ground: Bomb Rubble, Reclamation and Revenance.” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 10(1), 25–48 . 10.1558/jca.25782.
2023. [with Matt Edgeworth and Jeff Benjamin]. “Introduction: Making Ground: The Archaeology of Waste Landscapes”. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 10(1), 1-7. 10.1558/jca.25622.
Exhibition Displays
Reimagining Waste Landscapes [2020-24]. University of Edinburgh, Festival of Cultural Heritage Research, 15th-20th April 2024. St Cecilia’s Hall.
View the posters below:
Fieldwork Photos
- Royston Beach, Granton
- Oil Shale Bings, West Lothian
- Leyton and Hackney Marshes, East London
- The Beckton Alp, East London
Recorded talks
- Talk for Edinburgh World Heritage: ‘The Spoils of Progress: Reimagining Edinburgh’s Waste landscapes‘ [12/10/2023; event details]
- Reimagining Waste Landscapes seminar series (2022) recordings
- ‘What makes a Wasteland?’ – 2021 SHA Conference Paper Presentation
Repositories