Big fan of this work by Michael Yeo that attempts an urban history from the perspective of (serially) failed settlements.

Oh cool! I had the privilege to take part in various bits of the process that eventually yielded this special issue and I can assure you there's some great stuff in there.

This looks great! Can't wait to read. But, uh, I can't be the only one who thinks that the P&P asterisk makes all their articles look like a dodgy ad for mobile contracts or something, with the small print hidden away. Like, by this point some editor there must just be holding on to it out of spite.

You know the thing about how the US space programme was built on coding done by women left out of all historical narratives? Well, the closest thing Finland has to a space programme is the first national forest survey done in the 1920s. And guess who did all the maths and stats for that? Yup.

You know the thing about how the US space programme was built on coding done by women left out of all historical narratives? Well, the closest thing Finland has to a space programme is the first national forest survey done in the 1920s. And guess who did all the maths and stats for that? Yup.

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

Maybe I need to brush up on my eschatology but I don't see how you're going to bring about the apocalypse by *stopping* the coming of the Antichrist?

Sometimes when I'm working on a project I like to post red herring stuff to throw my academic rivals off the scent of what I'm actually doing.

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

"It is my pride and joy to be the shepherd of my country's trees." (The Caribbean Forester, 3:1 (1941))

Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying. 2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?” 🗃️#FRHistory frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/

Just received a peer review request that a) asks me to send in my CV so they can check if I'm a suitable reviewer; and b) gives no option to indicate refusal. This isn't exactly how these things are supposed to work in 2025..?

Another review in for Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe! "... an important voice in the discussion about European identity in relation both to itself, its constitutive parts, and the outside world", writes Marta Grzechnik. The full book is OA here: doi.org/10.5040/9781...

We are excited to announce that Volume 53 Issue 5 (2025) is now out! Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Absolutely wild to me that this guy gets a heroic feature in the NY Times when his clearly articulated climate policy throughout has been "let's not do a single thing to reach the previous government's climate targets but just keep them on the books anyway to point at in case anyone asks".

Another review in for Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe! "... an important voice in the discussion about European identity in relation both to itself, its constitutive parts, and the outside world", writes Marta Grzechnik. The full book is OA here: doi.org/10.5040/9781...

Reading the proofs!

Got to that point in the research process again where I stare at the page and try to convince my brain that it can in fact read Norwegian.

Explore our newest title: "Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka" by Mikko Toivanen. Learn more and order the book here: lup.nl/publications... #prototourism #colonialism #knowledgeproduction #transimperialhistory #travelwriting #SoutheastAsia

A big part of moving into a new subfield is learning new habits of writing, which can be difficult. For example, the first draft of this forestry article is currently coming out like "the foresters did a lot of forestry in the forests, which is interesting from a forest history perspective".

A conference taking place on moving trains sounds like a great idea, would love to try it, as long as it's not happening in Germany.

It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

It's publication day! 🎉🥳 Very soon I won't need to post about this anymore, but in the meantime, if you're interested in the colonial roots of modern tourism, or the role of leisure travel in producing knowledge about the world, check it out. Also as e-book on JSTOR: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

Simultaneously excited and nervous for @mekongreview.com’s upcoming tenth anniversary issue! Am working hard to make it a very, very good one 💪🏼

This Thursday, author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online. Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅 RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Bit of a long shot, this, but anyone have access to the Journal of the South African Forestry Association? Want to check out an article from 1940.

Very happy to announce that the CFP is now open for APSA26: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association! It will be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The keynote will be Craig Callender. Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2025. URL: tinyurl.com/APSA26

Okay today is the day I finally start writing Forestry Project Article Nr 1, wish me luck.

Really enjoyed my time at ENIUGH last week, good to see so many familiar faces and hear about exciting new work in global history. Especially appreciated the shoutout for our volume 'Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe' during the Wednesday plenary! doi.org/10.5040/9781...

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

I'm here! (soon)

Having the most cursed luck with night trains recently.

A lot of talk about copyright at the moment because of the Anthropic stuff so just a quick reminder that Taylor & Francis journals will ask you to relinquish copyright by default but if you just click 'no' their system automatically goes "oh okay then".

Heading out to Sweden tomorrow for the big global history conference, where 'Nordic Colonialism' will be one of the main themes. It's a pretty big field these days! But sometimes still a bit inward-looking in its ambitions. Here's my case for broader global relevance, in @jich.bsky.social in 2023:

Be sure to join us for this book talk with Tina Adcock on Cold Colonialism online on Monday, Sept 8!

Heading out to Sweden tomorrow for the big global history conference, where 'Nordic Colonialism' will be one of the main themes. It's a pretty big field these days! But sometimes still a bit inward-looking in its ambitions. Here's my case for broader global relevance, in @jich.bsky.social in 2023:

Three quarters into this essay and my argument has surprisingly just changed mid-paragraph. My brain is woefully inefficient.

Okay I've been informed the room for our panel has no speakers. Or computers. So let's see how this goes...

Publication day! My book The Colonial Way of War has finally appeared with CUP. The book is the first comparative & transimperial study of the violence of colonial warfare around 1900, based on an extensive empirical base &case studies from the British, German & Dutch Empire. It... shorturl.at/crWw2

Giving a paper next week at ENIUGH on historical counternarratives in modern Indonesian experimental music, I should be writing this stuff up right now but I keep finding new records to discuss...

The new issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social is finally out & it's the special issue I guest edited with Maria Stella Chiaruttini, entitled: Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’ snappy, I know... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Löytyyköhän täältä ketään, joka osaisi avata disability studies -alan käypää suomenkielistä termistöä? Kamppailen käännöskysymysten kanssa.

Oh, by the way, the book is pretty expensive! It's a shame. Get it for your library if you can, or some other way, but otherwise it will also become Open Access in 2028. That's courtesy of the JSTOR Path to Open scheme, for which I am grateful, as without dedicated funds it's the best I could do.

Okay this essay is ready to go: I've got the structure worked out, the quotes, the illustrative examples. It's all here. Even fiddled with all the formatting settings already. I just... don't want to start writing.

Decided to celebrate the book by registering for a half marathon in October. Better start training, I guess...

Andrey Kurkov wrote Death and the Penguin from December 1995 to February 1996, according to the book's postscript. Neon Genesis Evangelion was first broadcast in Japan from October 1995 to March 1996. There is a slight chance that Kurkov was inspired by seeing Pen Pen on early bootleg VHS tapes.

Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Brand new here and pleased to share news of the publication of our new @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book “Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975". Available for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...