ABSTRACT
Landscape history is a truly interdisciplinary field informed by, and informing, numerous adjacent subjects. These include anthropology, animal and plant sciences, ecology, biology, ethnology, forestry, architecture, urban studies, planning, environmental sciences, climate history, multispecies thinking and literature. This wide and diverse approach is greatly stimulating. The chapter briefly describes two of the relevant earth sciences – climate history and geology (at least the so-called Anthropocene), phenomenology and social history. Its paper is on the last of these topics, one that is having a profound influence in landscape history, yet one that is bedevilled by quasi-political assertions, often found to be erroneous in fact. This raises the important point that social historians should not assume that they are adequately prepared to write landscape history and vice-versa.
