Great to see Playthings & Playtimes published and free to read online (including my chapter on the curious place of the child in the city!)

Approaching the midpoint of the Melting Metropolis, project PI @chrisjpearson.bsky.social reflects on what to do with climate brokenness: www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/bro...

🌟 Join us at #ESEH2025 for a special NEXTGATe event! Failure Session: Monday 15:30, Humanities Theatre. We reflect on our academic journeys with the wonderful Sasha Gora, @wildpasts.bsky.social & @robgioielli.bsky.social Failure happens: what we do with it matters 🌿 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

This is going to be fab, hope to see lots of folk there...

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart

So excited that this project is going to be happening with us in History! Such a great job for someone too 👇

Interesting postdoc at Newcastle being advertised - oral history, archives, environment, wellbeing, with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

OTD in 1931 the British engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur Charles Wicksteed died. Best known as a manufacturer of playground equipment and founder of Wicksteed Park, he revolutionised children's play. Jon Winder (@drjonwinder.bsky.social) explores in this piece from our archive.

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

Starting a not-quite-so-grey day with more shiny new publications! My article with @drjonwinder.bsky.social & Ellis Spicer on bust cards & policing from the 1960s is now out in advance access in @mbhjournal.bsky.social! Read it open access here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...

Where a child lives - the built & natural environment around them – is crucial to giving them the best start in life. Our report reveals how better planning & urban design can help to raise the healthiest generation in history. www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/

Designed for Play is out today (I'm so excited!). It's free to read online and available to download from bit.ly/3VBUN4V

The history department at Liverpool have an opening for a fixed term lecturer in environmental history. More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN283/l...

I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the social and environmental history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online! #playgroundhistories

Join the fab Melting Metropolis team on a fully funded #PhD exploring heat, health and human geographies. Deadline for applications 28 June #phdchat #phdlife www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team! New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York. Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March. www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team! New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York. Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March. www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

I've booked a place at this History & Policy workshop on Mobilising the Environmental Humanities - and am really looking forward to exploring how #envhist and #envhumn can contribute to addressing climate emergencies... www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

I was excited to find another Jo(h)n Winder in the archive, but sad to hear his bike was stolen while he was swimming in St Pancras baths...

While exploring back copies of the British Medical Journal this morning, I came across the most gruesome treatment so far: The Hot Mustard Hip-Bath In Diarrhoea. Sounds like a pretty murky way to start your day...

If you're interested in a geography PhD looking at: ~ play, space, streets, communities ~ walking, cycling, wheeling (incl for children & YP) ~ social geographies of austerity/cost-of-living crisis ~ or similar then please get in touch! More info on studentships here: twitter.com/DtpNine/stat...

It's lovely to see everyone here - and the wintery blue sky out of the window this morning. Canterbury is looking good in the sunshine. Looking forward to sharing social, environmental and childhood history stuff in due course...