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're already looking foward to our next speaker, Richard Warren at the University of Bern, who will be speaking about 'Volcanos and Climatic Instability in Early Nineteenth-Century India' on the 2nd at 1500 GMT. Sign up to join us online here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/volcanoes-...

Still time to sign up for this next week!

This is going to be a really interesting talk next Tuesday afternoon!

Sign up is now open for our last talk before Christmas! ❄️ Richard Warren @unibe.ch is speaking about volcanoes, weather and climate in nineteenth century India 🌋 2/12 📆 15:00 GMT 🕒 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/volcanoes-...

We're looking forward to this comming up online on Tuesday afternoon, with our own @islayshelbourne.bsky.social! There's still time to sign up for tickets using the link below:

There's still time to sign up for @islayshelbourne.bsky.social talk on Californian health myths and contagion! #HSTM #Envhist @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social 🕐 Tuesday @ 3pm Sign up 👇

Come along next Tuesday to hear all about Californian health myths and their impact on perceptions of TB and the 1918-19 Flu. I'm excited to share my findings and delve into all the details that didn't fit into my recently submitted PhD thesis, reincarnating zephrys and mammoth oranges included!

New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

We’ve posted 2 new #openaccess articles in @globalenvironment.bsky.social: W. van Engelen et al., ‘African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana’; & a review of R.K. Barman’s ‘River, Society and Culture’ (@livunipress.bsky.social). Both here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/0/0. #envhist

We've posted another new piece ahead of print in 'Environment and History', being Claudia Leal's article 'Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs'; online here: doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #dogs #mongrels #colombia #latinamerica @eandhwhp.bsky.social

We're looking forward to @islayshelbourne.bsky.social's paper in a few weeks' time, on histories of contagion in modern California. To sign up, use the eventbrite link here: (Just look at the size of those oranges!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/california...

I wee reminder that this is comming up on tuesday afternoon!

A reminder that tickets are still available for Thomas Banbury's talk at 15:00 28/10!

New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available! 📆28/10 15:00 @eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Save the dates of these exciting upcoming seminars! Details on how to sign up will available soon. @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net @envhistnow.bsky.social @pages-ipo.bsky.social @climatehistorynet.bsky.social

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

In "The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope," Larsen revisits the 1990s scholarly debate over the ‘Ecological Indian’ as a pivotal moment in the history of Indigenous knowledge among anthropologists and conservation scientists. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3... #envhist 🗃️

2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be starting a new PDRA position @exeter.ac.uk tomorrow! AHRC-funded project: Informing Contemporary Land-Use through Sustainability Assessment of Medieval & Early Modern Farming Systems 👩‍🌾🌱🐑🐂 📷 Exeter cathedral nave

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

permanent Liberal Arts lecturership (= assistant professorship) in Glasgow: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

New #Skystorians job alert! The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. Details in the link below. 1/2

I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted! Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time. For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop! @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back — MPhil and PhD students from all universities are welcome to apply! @camhistory.bsky.social

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.

📣 A reminder that applications for the Thames Environment Fund close this Friday. 🌻 Applications are open to any project ideas that will be of environmental benefit to the tidal Thames. Find out more ➡️ pla.co.uk/thames-envir... #RiverThames #CleanThames #PortOfLondon #London #Essex #Kent

Interested in the historic environment? Want to help research, support and develop histories of place with the oldest and most ambitious (arguably) national local history project anywhere? Come and work with us!

I had a fantastic time @eseh.bsky.social 2025 in Uppsala. Incredible setting, fascinating new #envhist research and opportunity to meet new people & catch-up with old friends. @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @roblnaylor.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 9am 🕒 (Humanities Theatre, English Park, House 22), come along to our panel on ***New Sources of Early Modern Climate History***! There'll be: 📘weather diaries 🌊storm surges 🎣fish 💻 climate models @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @envhistnow.bsky.social #envhist

Out 28th August: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment & Identity in Modern England & Wales by Andrew McTominey published w/ @royalhistsoc.org & @ihr.bsky.social. The 23rd book in the #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, all of which are #OpenAccess w/ no author charge. uolpress.co.uk/book/watersc...

Looking forward to presenting on diaries as sources for reconstructing Little Ice Age weather and climate @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala next week! 📕❄️🌡️ #envhist 🖼️ ©️KHLC @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @roblnaylor.bsky.social

Just on time for the next @eseh.bsky.social #envhist #envhum bit.ly/4l5xQAj

Interested in contributing to E&H or want to learn more about the process? Come see us next week at ESEH in Uppsala! We'll be hosting two "meet the editors" sessions at the WHP @whitehorsepress.bsky.social stand. #envhist

I'll be at @whitehorsepress.bsky.social stand @eseh.bsky.social in Uppsala to answer your questions about @eandhwhp.bsky.social. If you have an article idea, want to know more about publishing your research, or are curious about our journal, come along!

If you're attending #ESEH in Uppsala next week, you are warmly welcome to come along to one of the informal 'Meet the Editors' sessions held by the editors of 'Environment and History', at the WHP table. More info in the attached flyer. @eseh.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

Interesting article I'm currently reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This dropped into my inbox from the Climate History network and might be of wider interest. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We're very pleased indeed to see research first published in 'Environment and History' making waves on BBC News – it was the third most read article on the BBC's UK news website as of this morning! @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist

Huge congratulations to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for the publication of a new article in the @royalhistsoc.org journal 'Transactions'! Alex's article is available here: doi.org/10.1017/S008... See also the blog post that Alex has written to mark its release: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...

To accompany the article, Alex has also written for the RHS blog, with 'Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History' bit.ly/4o6ZPCa Alex's post offers important advice on the skills historians bring to questions of climate change, and the skills historians need for this subject.