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Would you like to attend a workshop on communicating to householders about energy / retrofit / heat?
2 workshops in London (Feb 20th) and Manchester (w/c 6th March)
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Sam Johnson-Schlee

December 2022

Mangers and Warm Banks
An argument for the abolition of the home and the redistribution of warmth.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee

October 2022

‘Brighter lives are lived by gas!’: how natural gas was sold to a sceptical public in post-war Britain
New piece in The Conversation + book news.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee

September 2022

Riffing on methane
The Essex Delta, Gas and Oil, Rhythm and Blues.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
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August 2022

Saving you money and the nation fuel
Researching one energy crisis in the midst of another.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
The Hay Wain, the refinery, and the Drilling Platform
The Hay Wain was painted close to where I live. The painting shows a cart for carrying hay crossing the river Stour at Flatford Mill. In the painting by…
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
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July 2022

At last sex is helping to sell a gas appliance
On modernity and desire in the marketing of gas central heating.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee

June 2022

Manager - just a man, an innocent man.
Privatising British Gas & Management secrets of the 1970s.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
Immaterial Alcoves
The architecture of heat and ventilation inside the home.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
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May 2022

Certain General Beliefs
On the meaning of efficiency before and after Thatcher
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
WE MUST GET IN
North Sea Gas at the Museum of the Home
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
Living with Gas
A newsletter about my British Academy project Gaseous Domesticities & other writing projects.
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Sam Johnson-Schlee
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