Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Rowers on the Wear this morning

Autumn in Teesdale 🍂

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

This looks fascinating, seems like an interesting outgrowth of the sort of 'industrial' nineteenth-century tourism that made mines into tourist destinations. Or, indeed, tea/coffee/etc plantations in Southeast Asia, as I discuss in my book.

Some autumn woodland colours 🍂

The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social «Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸

We're thrilled to be taking part in Norsk Tinde Klubbe's Slingsby Week next July. The event celebrates British climber W C Slingsby's contributions to Norwegian mountaineering & coincides with the 150th anniversary of his ascent of Storen. Members can register here ➡️ alpineclub.org/event/slings...

I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.

#CFP: "Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice" (May 11-12, 2026, Switzerland). Deadline: 31.10.2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #envhist #envhum #hstm #ecolit

Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”. This would mean the death of research.

Bluesky historians - I have a student that has made a transcription of 'The Arctic Moon' a short-lived hand-written polar newspaper from 1881 housed in the National Archive. She'd like to share it or to archive it. Any suggestions?

Kvikk Lunsj on the BBC! I like how this article traces changing ideas of nature and recreation through what people ate outside: www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

Excited to see this chapter in print - it's about British travellers in Jotunheimen, travel infrastructure and the idea of remoteness: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

The centre-left bloc has won the Norwegian parliamentary election. I am temporarily relieved. We have a lot of work to do in the years ahead, but this could have gone so, so much worse.

Having decided I want my public scholarship to be properly public, rather than behind a paywall, I've decided to make everything I've written for my newsletter - going back over two years - free to read for the foreseeable future.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway." @sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.

Peter Wessel Zapffe bouldering near Tromsø in 1927 📷: Nasjonalbiblioteket

Vi står sammen i kampen mot rasisme! 🌻

Denmark PM apologises over ‘physical and psychological harm’ caused by IUD scandal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Seaside mosaics in Whitley Bay Metro station 🚇

From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas. Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

I want to write a new blogpost, academic pals! What’s your best advice for sustaining your motivation as an early career scholar, post PhD, without institutional affiliation? How can you feel supported in carrying on with your work? And what can those of us lucky enough to have jobs do to help?

The livestream of this is, like many things in Kiruna, mind-bending and moving in its mixture of care and destruction: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Summer evening in Durham ☀️

Abstract submission deadline is approaching (Sep. 1) for our Ghost of Empire in the North Sea workshop. Read more below or on our website where you also find a submission link (You have to scroll down below the introduction text on the website). www.uis.no/en/research/...

One like, one Norwegian mountaineering/glacier tourism photograph

Jonas er flink men nå ble jeg litt lei. Så nå kan dere få valgkamp anno 1936 i stedet for.

It's back!!! Part V of our Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series will happen this fall. Series editor @issygapp.bsky.social is joined by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social to explore "States of the Field – New Research in Arctic Pasts" Proposal Deadline: August 29 niche-canada.org/2025/08/04/c...

A town divided: how cruise tourism tore Greenland’s iceberg capital in two www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"There would have been some in this pocket of south London who will have experienced Test cricket for the first time on Monday. Firstly, welcome. Usually, it lasts longer than this. And no, you will never see anything like this again": www.espncricinfo.com/story/eng-vs...

"Arctic Twilight B 9/25, 1987" print by Naoko Matsubara. Via Abbozzo Gallery of Toronto.

The Lyngen Alps from the ferry 🚢

A historian of mountaineering in Norway on a mountain in Norway 🏔️

Sommer i Malangen ☀️

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Nordic Climate Histories' (Dominik Collet et al. eds), an essay collection exploring how the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability down the centuries: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #climatehistory #

ICYMI: "The podcast works as environmental history by reflecting on the relationships between women and landscapes, thinking about embodied experiences of ski touring and jumping." - @cjdrury.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r... #envhist #sporthistory #cdnhist #wmshist #skiing

What a remarkable day - Bashir will always have that match-winning wicket #ENGvIND

Lord's!

Today @cjdrury.bsky.social reviews the Ski Like a Girl podcast, a project by PearlAnn Reichwein, Charlotte Mitchell, and Lindsay Conrad. niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r... #envhist #wmnshist #skiing #sporthistory

I've got a review of the Ski Like A Girl podcast, about the history of women skiing in Canada, out in @nichecanada.bsky.social. The podcast is well worth a listen! ⛷️ niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r...

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

When you're out for lunch on Official University Business, it's important to look the part 🦤

Saltburn-by-the-Sea: one for the Victorian tourism fans

My article on infrastructure and photography in guidebooks to Norway has been accepted and should be out in a special issue next year. It will hopefully include lots of pictures like this! (Finse Hotel photographed by Wilse in 1910)

'Seeing climate change like this, it changes you': dance duo Bicep on making a new project in Greenland www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

If Carlsberg did contemporary British history projects... Oh, they do 🍺