Chloé is a final year PhD student in History at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are located in the fields of coastal, environmental, social, and cultural history. Her current work focuses on histories of people’s interactions with the environments that surrounded them, more specifically the spaces where sea and land meet. In her thesis, she examines how seaweeds featured in the lives and identities of coastal dwellers in Brittany and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.