S. 12. 2. – “The Last Ice Age”: The trade in natural ice as an agent of modernisation and economic integration in the 19th and early 20th century

Chair: Per G. Norseng (the Norwegian Maritime Museum / University of South-Eastern Norway)
Discussant: David Atkinson

• David Atkinson (Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull) – Following the icy thing: When natural ice was a commodity
• Eyvind Bagle (Norwegian Maritime Museum / University of South-Eastern Norway) – ‘Nature’s Factory’: The system of Norwegian natural ice production 1850-1920
• Knut M. Nygaard (University of South-Eastern Norway / Oslo Metropolitan University) – Two shipping conferences in the natural-ice trade
• Effie Dorovitsa (Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull) – Ice Wars: Imported Norwegian natural ice versus artificially manufactured French ice in Northern France 1890-1920