Rise and Fall of Imperial Chemical Industries

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London in the UK, where she is Co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and accreddited as a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

• 1. Synthetic Beginnings.- 2. The Highpoints and the Low Ones: In, Over, Around and Under the Chemical Factory.- 3. ICI and the Senses.- 4.History as Synthesis.