Please join us on Tues 10 March at 5pm at @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Giacomo Bonan (Turin) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s–1910s)'. Click for abstract and further information.

📢 New out! Simone Schleper @moneschleper.bsky.social traces the origins of corporate environmentalism and flexible interpretations of sustainable development to the 1970s. #globalenvironmentalgovernance #privatesettings #economichumanism #counterculture Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 📍 Lyon, France 📅 21–24 April 2027 ⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026 We will post more info below. #EnvHum

North Sea oil brought big changes to small places in the Scottish Highlands and Northern Islands. I've published a new essay about how oil rig manufacturing at the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland transformed work, community and everyday life.

We are delighted to share a new essay on the 1800 Histories website by Emma Rothschild, a micro-history of Tonopah, Arizona, from a methane plume in the desert to solar power plants and data centers.

Please join us on Tues 3 Feb 5pm @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Mariia Koskina (Cambridge) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'Little Corners of Freedom, Green Dictatorship, & the Sublime in the Late-Soviet Nature Reserve'. Click: 
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_kosk...

Our book is out today! 🎉 "Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by Julian Giordano exploring how satellite data and photography reveal the hidden geographies of methane emissions in coal and gas regions.

Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

Enjoyed listening to @johnmerrick.bsky.social interviewing @davidedgerton.bsky.social for @thebreakdownab.bsky.social on his histories of production and innovation and why we should be sceptical of much vaunted claims that technological innovation is the key to resolving the climate crisis.

📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 16 JANAURY ! #histstm #histtech

In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe. @fdonoff.bsky.social

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

CfA: IEG Mainz Writing-up Doctoral Fellowships in European History between 6 and 12 months, Deadline for Applications 15 February 2026 bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/a...

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

Über Jahrzehnte bemalten Frauen Schweizer Uhren mit radioaktiver Farbe und opferten so ihre Gesundheit. Warum schritt die Politik nicht ein? Die drei letzten Teile unserer Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit».

the most anticipated book of 2026: bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !! www.versobooks.com/products/334...

Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO ist erschienen! Special Issue zum Thema Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union. Gastherausgeber:innen sind @corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social, Timm Schönfelder. biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

The room is packed for the panel "Transatlantic Exchange and Imperialism" at the Central European History Convention #ceh-c in Vienna @univie.ac.at

CFP: Rohstoffe, Handel und koloniale Verflechtungen in der Regionalgeschichte, ca. 1800-1950 https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413 Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

We are inviting abstracts for Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop in November. We look for papers that help us confront and rethink the concept of imperialism in the context of the North Sea's extractive history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...

The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!

It's finally here! Our edited volume is out with @mitpress! And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:

Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July ugapress.org/book/9780820...

We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project. Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories Dates: October 20-21, 2025 Location: Maastricht University Abstracts due: April 4, 2025 managingscarcity.com/waeh/

Join us on 6 Feb at the @nlireland.bsky.social for the launch of our exhibition RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times. It is the outcome of a project using early 19th-century maps & recent geospatial data to assess land-use change over the past 200y 👇 www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e.... With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.

Monuments and Territory is now available in open access on JStor: www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...

What a buzz to see my essay, on Finnish colonial adventure fiction from a century ago, in print! And not in some boring academic journal but in the country's oldest and finest culture magazine, Nuori Voima.

We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory

The first book from our junior research group "Contrasting East Central Europe" at #GWZO is out! 🎉 Hana Antal's comparative study of populism in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria link.springer.com/book/10.1007...