We are pleased to announce this week 10 recipients of two new funding programmes for 2025-26: the RHS Public History Grants and the RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/3UB5djw Both programmes are generously funded by the Scouloudi Foundation and will run again in 2026-27 #Skystorians 1/2

Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ ‘“Piling up a treasury of knowledge”: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm’, by Rachel Dishington. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.001 18/31

Workshop at University of Glasgow on 15th May 2025, titled Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge. Info here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... To register to attend please complete one of these forms: forms.office.com/e/ZDzNVeedvb (in person) Or forms.office.com/e/vmJrvmgGSR (online)

Lovely end to the semester - hearing fieldwork stories from @peterrmartin.bsky.social @lauraloubio.bsky.social and other colleagues from the School of Geography (not on this site). Now time for mince pies, Christmas music and not checking my emails until January… 🎄

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

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Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

New open access paper out in Geography Compass draws on historical geography of science to argue for what we could learn from an historical geography of engineering #HSTM #histsci #histtech tinyurl.com/5v7y38nc

Trying out a new site - I’m a historical geographer working on 19th and 20th century engineering (primarily of rivers, oceans & water more broadly). Interested in science, knowledge & expertise.