My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year. It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

🧵/ How far does the public support net zero? Support: 60% Oppose: 25% Net support by party Green: +81 Lib Dem: +67 Lab: +64 Con: +11 Reform: -44 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them. I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA. We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, provides a rundown of the Project Page opportunities at the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)! November is our fundraising month. Support environmental scholarship! 🔹 niche-canada.org/research/ 🔹 #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog

What’s the collective noun for a group of environmental historians/ environmental humanists?

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

‘Choose’

We're really staring at the abyss with how our employers in our sector are treating us.

Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

I am ... so confused about what universities do right now?

Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia

The island in the distance is Evia / Euboia / Εύβοια, which has the largest wind energy cluster in Greece! So it was extra thoughtful of this person to send me the photo of EW in the wild 🩵

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

One for @erikahanna.bsky.social 💧

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

We’re leading 5 days of industrial action at the University of Dundee. We’re calling on all our members to participate in this action. You can join us on the picket line or strike from home. You can legally join the strike if you aren’t a member of a union The people united will never be defeated.

Totally inappropriate and frightening. Police should not be intimidating students on campus.

i wrote on the nuances of racial tension and the possibility of political coalition, with much resonance today, through Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-...

I’ve been catching up working through all the titles of files released at the National Archives, August-October 2025 Here are the overviews followed by a vote for what might be interesting to look at and report…

I’m sorry but this is very funny

Whoa Rebecca Lawrence has resigned as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Sorry that this might mean more turmoil at an institution that is a critical part of UK research infrastructure www.bl.uk/about/press/...

Dry summer followed by wet autumn has resulted in a fungal explosion in the Wye Valley. Bit slow in posting, but here are some treasures.

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

The Eaton/Altadena Fire, nine months later: a personal and historical thread: Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

Forgive the direct tags - @tomgatti.bsky.social @robbiemillen.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Today #Wales remembers a catastrophic part of its environmental history - The Dolgarrog Dam Disaster #Dolgarrog100 with commissioned requiem, musical responses , prose, poetry, art & drama #envhist #reservoir #rememberance #reservoirsafety #community #legacy #heritage www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI91...

I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

Why tequila depends on Mexico's bats www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #bats🦇 play an important role in many habitats around the world. From eating millions of crop-damaging insects to pollinating important food plants and even helping with reforestation. Bats aren't scary, they are essential

This Halloween, celebrate the nocturnal rhythms of UK bats by ordering copy of Speculative Frequencies from your local independent book store, the Permeable Barrier website, or (if you’re feeling extra spooky) the book is on Amazon 🦇

Wow a UK university finally learnt the word scholasticide www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

📸 Pictured: a wonderful event at @bookhaus.bsky.social last night, where our authors @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social chatted all things climate, energy and sustainability🍃 Huge thanks to all who attended! Drifting North and Electric Wind are out now📚

Katja & I traded AI experiences at ESEH2025 - it made me feel less isolated in not wanting to grant rights for AI use. I've been swamped by emails from Bloomsbury to sign over permission - wearing peopledown is a tactic being used. (Have had great and HUMAN experience with MUP, I should add)

🎉 We are all thrilled to welcome Cllr Al-Maghrabi into the Green Group! 💚 Al is a kind, compassionate and diligent councillor - we are lucky to have him with us. 📈 @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social now has half the councillors in Bristol! 🤝 Welcome @alsayedpolitico.bsky.social!

I've had recent experience of caring for a dying parent; it was unbelievably awful. Every single good thing - hospice care, night relief, pain relief - was provided by charities. It has shaken my understanding of the NHS to its core. It is failing dying people and their families.

This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Also well done to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social on Electric Wind, a phenomenal work of public history with great lessons for our times, and nice to meet @noreenmasud.bsky.social whose book A Flat Place was very much a benchmark for Drifting North to try and reach.

This was an excellent 2 author event - bought this one and looking forward to reading

Tonight! Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social and @dominicmhinde.bsky.social at @bookhaus.bsky.social! Marianna will be discussing her new book Electric Wind, on the history of wind power in Britain🌩️📘 🎟️Details: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/reaping-the-whirlwind-britains-energy-transition/