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This is the personal site of Dr Louis Lorenzo, where I showcase my current work, past projects, and other personal interests.
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23rd March 2026 – I am delighted to be starting my new role as Research Associate with the Sheffield School of Architecture and Landscape today. Read more about the project on its website: ‘Negotiating Childhood Around the Pacific-Rim‘
4th February 2026 – Just uploaded Chapter 3 of my doctorate. This chapter is titled Byker: An Oral History of Outdoor Play Amongst Modernist Dreams and De-Industrial Ruination
29th January 2026 – I have released a new track! ‘This Land is Northumberland’, my version of Woody Guthrie’s classic. Listen here!
Featured Articles
Dead River: An Environmental History of the Tyne Improvement Commission 1850-1968CE
For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. – Alfred Tennyson, ‘The Brook’. Introduction The Significance of River History When searching for a location to build a home, the humans who founded the first settlements on the Tyne had several priorities in mind. First and foremost, they needed access to…
Chapter 1: Changing Childhoods and Changing Britain: Expert Discourse and the Universal Child – The Natural Habitat of Youth?
<- Introduction – Chapter 2 -> 1.1 Introduction This chapter looks at how expert discourse both in policymaking and academic circles sought to understand and shape children’s lived experiences of place and play in Britain leading up to and during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, bringing different categories of discourse into dialogue. The framework of…
Review: Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
Text: Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. By Alfred W. Crosby. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. 208pp. The experience of reading Children of the Sun feels more akin to a fable than a history volume, even the title rings of fairy tale. As if meant to…
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