Charles-Francois Mathis Author

Charles-Francois Mathis is Senior Lecturer in History at Bordeaux Montaigne University (France). He specialises in the environmental history of Britain and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is currently preparing a cultural and material history of coal in Britain from the 1830s to 1940. Former chairman of the French network of environmental historians, he is also a member of the board of the ESEH and the editor of a series on environmental history 'L'environnement a une histoire', published by Champ Vallon. Emilie-Anne Pepy is Senior Lecturer in History at Savoie Mont-Blanc University (France). Her doctoral and post-doctoral research led her to explore the history of the relations between societies and nature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, based on two themes: man and the mountain environment; and the construction of knowledge about plant nature. Collaborating on collective research projects, she works on different but complementary subjects such as public health, botanical gardens and landscapes. Translation by Moya Jones, who is a translator and academic in the humanities.