💥New | What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research
✍️ Paul Merchant & @angecass.bsky.social
#OralHistory #ResearchImpact #CoProduction
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
#Skystorians Exciting conference klaxon!
@katrinanavickas.bsky.social @erikahanna.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social @julialaite.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social May be of interest!
Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Thanks! Just what I was looking for 😀
Interested in who you went with and if they do 16mm film and/or cassettes too?
A room full of people with speakers at the front
The green cover of hwj100 with a pine tree
A packed house @bbkhistorical.bsky.social for History Workshop Journal's 50th anniversary/100th issue celebration! It's a joy to see so many wonderful historians here to mark @historyworkshop.org.uk's incredible 50 years.
I’d want to check out that mould in the bathroom!
Ross!!! Many, many congratulations. So pleased for you and can’t wait to read💖🎉🥳
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
A page describing the role of the zine in encouraging children to think critically about gaming.
A page from the zine showing a prompt about what a better phone design may look like
A page showing drawings from the zine
Are you a teacher, parent or youth worker looking for an engaging way to get young people to think critically about digital technologies?
Use our new zine series, which provides arts-based activities and prompts for children to explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of technologies.
Amazon literally hosts the Palantir ICE surveillance database -- so this is not even a hypothetical. Buy local!
AI cannot feel.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.
The Overall Winner is Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly by Zeke Rowe, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Capturing Ecology 2025 Ecologists in Action Winner: 'Ready for Everything' by Roberto García Roa
Capturing Ecology 2025 Interactions Winner: 'Lioness one eye behind birds' by Willem Kruger
Capturing Ecology 2025 Highly Commended: 'Fading Giants' by Ashane Marasinghe
The winners of last year's Capturing Ecology photography competition are truly amazing. You can see them all here:
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/capturing-ec...
Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!
I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.
For more information👇
My latest in History Today, on the Pride of Derby river pollution case of 1952. Now available in newsagents etc!
Do you have Zotero installed? This was happening for me a while back and discovered I had allowed Zotero to redirect these kinds of links via a proxy, which became really annoying when sharing links with others!
Huge news for the little owl! Its transformation from 'vermin alien' and 'worst bird in Britain' to 'cute little bird' is now almost complete 🦉
It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
Nice workshop on georeferencing coming up Jan 31 w/ @oldinsurancemaps.net @openhistoricalmap.org & more as a part of the @osmus.bsky.social virtual conference - openstreetmap.us/events/mappi...
We’ve got a stellar lineup for this term’s Modern British History Seminar in Oxford. Do come along if you’re around!
talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.
Nick Robinson's political interviews perfectly illustrate the invariable reality of the BBC: strong with the weak and weak with the strong.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...
