Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape

We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨

Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.

Finished painting of Thuidium cymbifolium (Hawaiian name: mākole mākō pi`i) #sciart #botanicalart #watercolor

Peter Watkins obituary

“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is one of the most extraordinary I have visited, with a beautiful collection of herbals and plant texts

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky shorturl.at/neVQ6

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

Had a great day with @trichocolea.bsky.social at @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about how to read herbarium records! #PalaeographySky

1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social

Time travel for a rainy Sunday! It's almost your last chance to listen to #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on BBC Sounds (the first episode expires in just two days). Why not climb inside a poem-time machine today? #history #listen #podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🔊 Join the IHR Digital History seminar Tuesday 21 Oct (17:30 BST, on Zoom) for Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre on 'Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland' #dhist ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives: bit.ly/4q4UGvD

This Monday, October 13. The event is blended - at 2 pm (Italy time). Contact me or email <[email protected]> for link and details #environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

Want to procure the paperback edition of my book? Go to Routledge's website and use the code TAOC25 to get a 25% discount. www.jenniferhowes.com/the-art-of-a...

'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.' Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:

I haven't read the David Wootton review of @philipcball.bsky.social's Alchemy book, but Philip's response is insightful and well worth reading #histSTM philipball86.substack.com/p/was-alchem...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲 We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along! On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination". All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...

I’ve been working in natural history museums since I was 16, in that time I’ve met very few researchers who look like me. AMNH opening an exhibit highlighting black scientists in natural history (esp in our current climate) is MONUMENTAL to say the least! This will be a must visit!

Zillions of mushrooms around in Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Today's finds include Boletus luridiformis, Russula claroflava, Cortinarius violaceus, and what I think is Volvariella bombycina

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'. In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...

Another classic AI fail as iRecord attempts to ID a stagshorn fungus

Evening walk to check out some Marsh Gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) on #AshdownForest

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Fascinating programme on the World Service on film archives, conservation and restoration www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... @moviessilently.bsky.social

Interesting options in iRecord. #wildflowerhour

I wonder what the equivalents are for UK vice counties (or even for each hectad in Sussex)? @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social xkcd.com/3118/

I had the pleasure of being handling editor for Ana Laura Zavala Guillen's @tibg.bsky.social paper "Geographies of slavery in the Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands" Read the Spanish version here: blog.geographydirections.com/2025/08/12/t...

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

I've been talking about this network a lot recently! If you're a UK ECR (you have your PhD in hand), sign up for it! You don't need an affiliation. You get access to their brilliant events (they fund your travel so you can attend), offer biannual conference funding, + access to larger funding opps.

I’ll be sharing some #envhum insights from *A Cold Colonialism* in a @greenhouseuis.net book talk next Monday, September 8th at 7 am PT / 10 am ET / 4 pm CET. Please join us! ❄️ Click below for more info, including the Zoom link ⬇️ #envhist #cdnhist newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

From Print to Prompts: Join The Economist’s Health Editor Natasha Loder at UCL STS on 15 October for the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Lecture on the future of science journalism. For full details and to register to attend, please visit: http://bit.ly/4poAV1R

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Job Klaxon: Lecturer (Teaching), Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms, and Society. A few more days to apply. Full time, open ended lectureship working with me and my team at UCL: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI086/l...

Exploring a part of the wet wood about a mile from home and found new sites for the moss Hookeria lucens and Narrow-leaved Buckler-fern (Dryopteris carthusiana) #bryology #Sussex #wildflowerhour

What should historians do when our sources do not tell us what we want to know? Submit your research to the American Historical Review's upcoming special issue. Submission deadline: September 16, 2025: oxford.ly/45Isir6 @historians.org

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

A new post from Sue on the Sussex Bryophytes blog in which she finds a new site for Habrodon persupillus #bryophytes sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/h...

Coming up tomorrow (Monday Sept 1st)! It starts at 4pm in Norway / 3pm in UK, 10am Eastern in Americas. I’d love to see a big audience to kick off our fall 2025 talks.

The rather splendid moss Hookeria lucens along a small stream in Paupersdale Wood in the Sussex Weald

"This dried sprig of thyme will always be Thymus polytrichus. It will not...channel the spirit of a long-departed thistle." Bennet's 1847 entry on his lost herbarium—a sharp, witty defense of empirical fact over spiritualist fads. bennetdiaries.github.io/entries/1847... #BennetDiaries