How can Victoria’s rich botanical heritage support student exploration of the natural world and society through Environmental History? Sharon Willoughby explores this question in an article for Agora, the quarterly journal of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria.  

Introduction: What is Environmental History? "Sciences and the humanities – so often separated in our training and thinking – are now turning towards one another with a grateful and urgent sense of opportunity and collaboration." Environmental History is a relatively new area of inquiry within the history discipline, emerging since the 1970s, and an exciting development within the recent Australian History curriculum, especially in Year 10.2 This opens up rich cross-curriculum opportunities for student exploration of the historic interactions between people and nature.

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