Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out! sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97 Take a look at the issue’s contents below. (Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’) 1/16

#Fellrunning with Rosie #ArnsideKnott #Cumbria

Upcoming workshop on spirituality at Kyudai this Friday For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)

Read "Microhistory: Silence as Possibility," made freely available for three months: buff.ly/j21EQeF

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

Join us for an evening of conversation with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner. Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more. Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... 📍 Warburg Institute | Free

Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism ‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.' ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3

Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism ‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.' ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3

But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies) blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....

Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....

Today we have "The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals" by Anatole Danto This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series. niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t... #envhist

📚TODAY📚 Join this free online event with The Marxist Education Project to learn about Mitch Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary 🗓️Sat, Nov 1 ⏰2 pm EST marxedproject.org/event/serge-...

Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...

David Graeber, sorely missed, was a friend of Treadwell's - we invite you to look at the events in his legacy.

We've long anticipated Mitch Abidor's book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, coming out next month. Mitch will be discussing Serge, "an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions" tomorrow at 2pm on Zoom with Jacob Plitman.

My piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies

How did elves and fairies become a firmly established part of Western popular culture? Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures. yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty... #folklore #folklorethursday

#OTD 139 years ago: Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals). Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Book about to be launched! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social @kathryn-seymour.bsky.social www.intellectualhistory.net/events-outsi...

Another pointer, if I may, to my contribution to The Conversation, arguing against the profoundly problematic changes to access for researchers at the BBC Written Archives Centre. theconversation.com/changes-to-t...

Ready to turn your research into real-world impact? The AHRC's follow-on funding scheme is evolving - with more flexibility, wider access and bigger awards. Find out what's changing, why it matters and how to apply👇 www.ukri.org/blog/evolvin... #AHRC

'I saw her going forth in the same fearless way that in 1924, when she was nineteen, she left Darjeeling for Tibet on her pony Graylock (“He ambled so nicely on the precipices”) to join her father in Lhasa...'

Index draft delivered! (So now I can get back to all the things I've put off for the past 3 weeks.) Just 10 days before we send 'Magic Rays of Light' to the printers - and it's still available for pre-purchase at a discount from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...

Join me & @mmuscolino.bsky.social discussing his book Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China tomorrow (Monday, 27 October 2025) at 4pm Central European / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific Live talk details: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhum #envhist

Venus Italica Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (after) Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, Lancashire. ‘I shall have a craftsman Make a likeness of your body And lay it in our bed...' Alkestis by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson, lines 309-313.

“I’m not afraid to die on a summit.” Natalya Nagovitsyna Jengish Chokusu/Pik Pobeda, 7,439 metres 16 August 2025 abenteuer-berg.de/en/drama-on-...

This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

Hey #EnvHum folks and #archaeologists! Are you involved in archaeological research into the history of forests? Then this call for papers might be of interest to you. Take a look: projektwald.hypotheses.org/527 #WoodStory #ProjektWald #Forstgeschichte #Archaeology #Archäologie

The Victorian Hand's #handoftheweek is all about the fingerprint and the handprint and roots in racialised ideologies. Do check it out and follow us!

A great review of my film, which plays today at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social in Sheffield followed by a conversation about the Christmas ghost story.

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V @julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2

The deadliest mountain in the world in 2025... #Mountains #Mining #Extractivism #Indigenous #HighAltWork

As the UK Nature’s Rights Bill is unveiled today in the House of Lords, explore how recognising nature as a legal entity could transform conservation. 🪶 Our Rights of Nature page offers blogs, context & resources: 🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/toolkits/rig... #RightsOfNature #NatureRecovery

One of the crazier stories in my book is that of Amar Nath Dutt, who tried to blackmail some of the Indian revolutionaries in Paris. His bluff was called and after a brief prison term, he left for Argentina to become a magician, later going by the name Linga Singh. thewire.in/books/servan...

CfP: Russia and the appropriation of the Arctic. Interests, instruments and identities from the late Tsarist period to the present day. International Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich 12–14 March 2026, Deadline: 30 November 2025 URL: mwsosteuropa.hypothe...

'Bad statues...'

The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

In the @nybooks.com, a review by Verlyn Klinkenborg of all three books of the 'Other Minds' trilogy, plus David Scheel's octopus book and one by Craig Foster (of 'My Octopus Teacher'). Quite an armful. (Image by Jason Logan.) 1/ www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Your Sunday read: "Neoplatonic Voyaging" Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/neoplat...

🔔 Event reminder! 🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future 📆 22-24 October 2025 ❗ fully booked in-person 🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social

Check out @waymarks.bsky.social's review of @sbilston.bsky.social's "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession," published in 2025 by @harvardpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #plantstudies www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

New to the series | Sports and sociability in Britain in the long eighteenth century edited by Alexis Tadié and Caroline Bertonèche. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/SportsandSociability #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Breaking News: Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first team that conquered Mount Everest, has died at 92.

It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

One reasonable explanation for spending so much money on AI is that it's the vehicle for the last gasp of fossil fuel expansion billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...

OTD in 1945, delegates from across the world gathered in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester to take part in the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Theo Williams on Black and anti-colonial politics and British radical memory.

Lady Ottoline Morrell ('A walk near Gastein') by Philip Edward Morrell vintage snapshot print, August 1908 NPG Ax140006 shorturl.at/BtfFO