Everyday Histories of Heat and Health in London, New York, and Paris since 1945.
Based at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Queens College, New York, Melting Metropolis is a Wellcome-funded project exploring how Londoners, New Yorkers and Parisians have thought and felt about heat and its impact on their health.
Archival images reproduced with permission of Queens Public Library, New York. Credits: Family in the surf at Rockaway, 1905, by William J. Murray, Astoria Pool, August 10, 1975, by Joseph A. Ullman. Photograph of a summer park in London by Ewelina Ruminska, 2022.
