About

Jim Clifford is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. He researches environmental and urban historian of Britain and the British World during the long nineteenth century. Using digital methods including historical GIS and text mining, he explores the industrialization in Greater London and global commodities. He is currently focused on ecological limits to industrial growth and how British industry came to rely on overseas “ghost acres” to maintain growth during the nineteenth century.

I am currently co-leading the Saskatchewan COVID-19 Archive project with Erika Dyck and leading the Building London with Canadian Resource (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant).

Book:

Jim Clifford, West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017.

Reviews:

• Bill Luckin, Cultural and Social History, 2019.


• Amahia Mallea, Canadian Journal of History, 2019.


• Ken Cruikshank, Labour/Le Travail, 2019.


• Carry Van Lieshout, H-Water, 2019.


• Nicola Tynan, The London Journal, 2018.


• William Cavert, Environmental History, 2018.