PUBLICATIONS

Our research output

Trentmann, F., 'Getting to grips with energy: fuel, materiality and daily life', Science Museum Group Journal, 9 (2018).
Chappells, H. and Shin, H., 'Making Material and Cultural Connections: the fluid meaning of ‘Living Electrically’ in Japan and Canada 1920–1960', Science Museum Group Journal, 9 (2018).
Shin, H., 'Energy/Culture: a reading guide for historical literature', Science Museum Group Journal, 9 (2018)

Rebecca Wright, Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann, From World Power Conference to World Energy Council: 90 Years of Energy Cooperation, 1923-2013 (London: World Energy Council, 2013). [PDF]

Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann, 'Energy lessons from history'. A contribution to The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Guest Blog series.
Hiroki Shin, 'The Paris Climate Agreement and the Year 1965: How Much Can We Achieve in 50 Years (Or Less)?' Contribution to the Reluctant Internationalists blog series.
Rebecca Wright, Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann, Power, Energy and International Cooperation: A History of the World Energy Council (Oekom, 2019).

Vanessa Taylor and Heather Chappells (eds.), Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Rachel Carson Center Perspectives Issue 2019/2
Vanessa Taylor, Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain, Rachel Carson Center Perspectives Issue 2020/1 'Women and Energy'.
Hiroki Shin, ‘At the Edge of the Network of Power in Japan, c.1910s–1960s’, in Simone Abram, Tom Yarrow and Brit Ross Wintherik (eds.), Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Frank Trentmann and Hiroki Shin, ‘Energy Shortages and the Politics of Time: Resilience, Redistribution and ‘Normality’ in Japan and East Germany, 1940s–1970s’, in J. Brewer, N. Fromer and F. Trentmann (eds.), Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800–2075 (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann, ‘The Material Politics of Energy Disruption: Managing Shortages Amidst Rising Expectations, Britain 1930s-60s’, in D. C. Needham (ed.), Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton (Boydell and Brewer, 2019).

Frank Trentmann and Rebecca Wright, ‘The Future is Now’, for the play 'OIL', 2016.

Heather Chappells and Frank Trentmann, 'Disruption in and across Time’ in Elizabeth Shove and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Infrastructures in Practice: the Evolution of Demand in Networked Societies (forthcoming).

Frank Trentmann, Materielle Kultur und Energiekonsum: Verbraucher und ihre Rolle für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung (oekom verlag München, 2016), ISBN-13: 978-3-86581-826-3. For details, see here.

Frank Trentmann, 'The Lessons of War: Reordering the Public and Private Capacities and Dynamics of Consumption', in Hartmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann and Felix Römer (eds.), The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 331–356.
‘Experts: Past, Present and Future’ blog-series (Trentmann as a co-editor of the series), including a contribution from Frank Trentmann and Rebecca Wright 'Energy Futures: Through the Looking Glass of “Experts”'
Vanessa Taylor and Heather Chappells,'Transitions in Energy Landscapes and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'. Conference report on the Rachel Carson Center blog website.
Trentmann, F. and A. Carlsson-Hyslop, ‘The Evolution of Energy Demand in Britain: Politics, Daily Life and Public Housing, 1920s-70s’, Historical Journal (2017, open access).
Finding Sheet: Energy Disruption
Finding Sheet: Energy Futures
Finding Sheet: Public Engagement
Finding Sheet: Everyday Life
Finding Sheet: Connections and Disconnections
H. Shin, S. Majima and Y. Tanaka (eds.), Moving Around: People, Things and Practices in Consumer Culture (Forum for History of Consumer Culture, 2015)

H. Chappells and F. Trentmann, ‘Sustainable consumption in history: ideas, resources and practices’ in Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption, eds. Lucia A. Reisch and John Thøgersen (Cheltenham, in press), pp. 51–70.

Blog post: Frank Trentmann, ‘When the Lights Go Out’ (4 December 2014) blog post on the ‘Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past’ website
Blog Post: Hiroki Shin, ‘How to make cooling measures cooler?’ (19 August 2014) blog post on the Sustainable Consumption Institute, Manchester University
Hiroki Shin, ‘Kongo no Enerugi ni tsuite kangaeru dodai wo kizuku [Laying the foundation for thinking about future energy]’, Tsuruoka Kerosene Archive Newsletter (2013), vol. 5, p. 1.