Congrats to @hcraddock.bsky.social for making RHS shortlist of best early career articles with “The Absence of the Ackee Tree“. And congrats to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & @plantperspectives.bsky.social for publishing it. Great to see #envhist on the list! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/05/18/r...

We've added a post to our blog, by Shelley Kolstad on 'Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory', contextualising her recent #openaccess article in Plant Perspectives: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/05/20/m... #plantstudies #envhum #mangroves

Really pleased that my @plantperspectives.bsky.social article has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org early career article prize! doi.org/10.3197/WHPP...

We've published a new AoP article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Shelley Kolstad, 'Between "The Outlier" and "The Dead": Ethnographic and Phenomenological Encounters with a Mangrove Community'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP. #plantstudies #mangroves #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

In 'Women and Rural Property in Medieval Bologna', Rosa Smurra and Taylor Zaneri incorporate GIS, tax records and modern soil data to examine women landowners and their roles in 13th century Bologna's economy. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

More recent ahead-of-print articles! In 'Regulating the Wood Trade and Forestry', Cristiano La Lumia examines political & social tensions over timber tariffs in Imperial Germany. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

In 'From Conversion to Conservation', Nawiyanto and Pim de Zwart analyze this shift in environmental practices in colonial Java, driven by consequences of deforestation doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

New ahead of print articles! In 'Makhtesh Ramon as a Contested Landscape', Galia Limor-Sagiv examines the environmental history of Israel’s Makhtesh Ramon in the 20th century. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

We've published a new book review in 'Nomadic Peoples', by J. Terrence McCabe on Greta Semplici's 'Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #kenya #drylands #resilience

We've published a new article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya on 'The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in the Community Garden of the Limache Hospital'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies #chile

We've added a post to our blog, by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya, reflecting on 'What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital'; online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/04/22/h... #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social

We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation

We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs

We've posted a new book review online first in 'Nomadic Peoples', about Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio's 'Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya' (@uoftpress.bsky.social); #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #kenya #colonialism #settlers #nomadism

The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist

We've co-published a new blog post with ICEHO; J. Palmblad responds to S. Sörlin’s ‘Staying Open – Shaping Environmental History in Sweden’, from 'Global Environment' Feb 2026: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i... @iceho.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

We've posted a new #openaccess article online first in 'Global Environment'; G. Leghissa on 'Resurrecting the Ancient Granary: The Influence of the Classics in Western Imagery of Mesopotamia (Fifteenth–Twentieth Centuries)'; here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg... @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist

We're excited to announce that the new editor of 'Plant Perspectives' is Joela Jacobs (University of Arizona). Read more about the news on our blog, here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/17/p... #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Issue 30.1 of ‘Nomadic Peoples’ is live! This special issue on ‘Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa’ was guest edited by Giordano Marmone & Kelly Askew. #Openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism #nomads

A 2020 E&H article by Fiona Williamson was translated into Chinese by Li Ruipeng. Read "生活在污秽与对健康的漠视之中” (‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’) here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MDYJqHU2W1... 🗃️ #envhist #chinesehistory

New open access ahead-of-print article! In 'Landscapes of Caste Exclusion', Nivedita Nath evaluates the role of caste in the colonial transformation of entangled subcontinental landscapes of forests and fields. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 🗃 #envhist

Library support for Diamond OA publishing is also about supporting bibliodiversity - it's about giving unfunded academics the opportunity to publish OA #CopimConference

Stimulating discussion at the @copim.bsky.social conference - how do we take Open Access strategy out of the echo chamber?

Lovely to see the sun rise before 7 for the first time today! On my way to the @copim.bsky.social conference in London. Looking forward to meeting @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social friends.

We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social

A new issue of Plant Perspectives will be out next month - right on time for spring 🌸

In 'Squid and Socialists', Donghyun Woo analyses how squid in the East Sea undermined production quotas and eluded state planning from 1945 to 1964, showing how nonhuman herd agency exposed the limits of Pyongyang’s efforts to discipline oceanic nature. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

We've published a new #openaccess article in 'Plant Perspectives'. Marion De Schepper writes 'Violently Vibrant, Obscurely (Un)Alike: Surrealist Representations of Plants in the Avant-Garde Magazine "Minotaure"': doi.org/10.3197/WHPP.... #plantstudies #surrealist @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Here’s a preview of the cover and contents of ‘Plant Perspectives’ 3.1, forthcoming in April. #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index

There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie

We're delighted to welcome Dr. Leona Watson (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) as Editor of 'Environment and History'. Huge thanks to outgoing Editor, Dr. David Moon (@york.ac.uk), for his excellent work over the last few years. We look forward to seeing what's next for @eandhwhp.bsky.social! #envhist

Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist

We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Global Environment', by Sunny Ruchi Ecka on "Mahua: A Lifesaving Famine Food in the Nineteenth Century"; read it #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist #plantstudies @globalenvironment.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Nomadic Peoples' 30.1, forthcoming in March. 'Nomadic Peoples' is a #subscribetoopen title and we're within reach of our 2026 target to make vol 30 #openaccess. Please encourage your institution to subscribe, if they have not yet done so! #pastoralism

For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies

We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic

Happy Christmas from all at @whitehorsepress.bsky.social [image by Sarah's daughter Miranda]

And lastly, in "War: Wasting at Another Pace," Iris Borowy analyzes the multifaceted intersections between war and waste management, examining the ways in which industrial warfare waste has shaped landscapes. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', in which Sabrina Dookie considers 'Mangroves as Sacred Forests'. You can find it here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #mangroves #plantstudies #forests #planthum #envhum

In "Wearing Wild Birds", Laura Valls examines the late 19th century fashion trend of entire birds displayed on women's hats and clothing, exploring public reactions that led to the first preservation movements doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

In "Technocratic Environmentalism in Socialist Science Diplomacy," Barbora Buzássyová examines Czechoslovak geologists' use of the International Geological Correlation Programme to advance technocratic environmentalism in diplomacy during the late Cold War. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

2 more ahead-of-print articles! In "Visualising Icebergs," Björn Billing examines visual representations of icebergs in engravings and other works of art (c. 1570-1770), elucidating aesthetic and epistemological aspects of the early modern Arctic doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

We've added a new post to our blog, in which Chris Halsted contextualises his new article in 'Environment and History' on ‘Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve’: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/03/g... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #birds

In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

In "The Treatment of Smog in Britain," Caizhou Cui analyses the roles played by national organizations in raising public awareness and influencing policy on air pollution in 20th century Britain, which served as a model for other nations. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

3 new ahead-of-print articles available now! In "Germany’s Feral Rheas," Chris Halstead examines the establishment of a population of these flightless birds in northern Germany, facilitated by the creation of the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

We've published a new #openaccess article in 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability', by Theodore P. Lianos on 'Thomas More’s Utopia as a Steady State Economy'. Available here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #population #sustainability #utopia #economy