'Meanwhile, it is still not known whether Gedun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama recognised by the Dalai Lama, is alive or where he is, 30 years after he was abducted at the age of five by the Chinese authorities...'

This is a very good piece on the policy changes at the BBC Written Archives at Caversham, which have closed off most of the archive even to established researchers. It may seem a small thing, but it’s indicative of the wider assault on public institutions. Do read & sign the petition.

Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists Elaine Stratford, Carol Farbotko, Phillipa Watson, Taukiei Kitara, Juno Berthelsen, Christopher Cozier, Ayano Ginoza, Julie Edel Hardenberg & Maria Hnraki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #islands

Have you listened to the new mountains podcast yet? Put on by @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social and @profpitches.bsky.social, the "Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures" podcast has published its first episode. Also, follow the podcast on Bluesky: @futuremountain.bsky.social .

I'm surprised, actually, that the #Republicans didn't rename it "Denial," after one the main planks in the party platform. #MountMcKinley #McKinley #Denali #NationalParks #NPS @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/national-par...

Hope you can join us for the launch of the Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast in 2026. Stay tuned.... IMAGE: Signal and heliotrope station, Monte Rosa, Switzerland, 1914. SOURCE: Swiss Topo, Memoriav Memobase shorturl.at/oqEEa

🌋 New international report reveals the unprecedented impact of the Hunga eruption, an underwater volcano that erupted in 2022. Priestley members were at the heart of this effort to understand the climate impact of this water-rich eruption. Read the findings here: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/interna...

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests #Climate

I've written an article about the polar bear William Scoresby Senior brought back to Whitby! I'm excited to announce that I've discovered the date of the bear's capture and some details about its time at the Tower of London menagerie. whitbymuseum.org.uk/whitby-and-i...

Raphael Tuck’s complete 6 card “Oilette” set for Tibet with cover, circa 1905. Early 20th century postcards were one of the main ways images of Buddhist material culture circulated in Europe/US.

'Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival.' By A. D. Manns 12 November 2025 @publicdomainrev.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-l...

'Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis' By Kevin Dann 7 May 2025 @publicdomainrev.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/essay/warbur...

The fiftieth post in this weekly series, on the Soviet historian Boris Porshnev, who worked on 17th century France, was read by Braudel, Foucault and others, and who had a side interest in cryptozoology, leading an expedition looking for the yeti. progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/14/b...

#Fellrunning #ForestofBowland #CloughaPike #Lancashire

Cold War insanity! 😱 In 1965, a plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of world’s highest mtns - Nanda Devi (7,816 m) - in a U.S. covert mission to spy on China! It’s likely still buried in a glacier feeding the Ganges - a river that supports ~600 M ppl! 😲 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mallory is melting...

Great short-format opportunity for busy early-career #EnvHist researchers!

This week, Clemens Wischermann writes about emotions in research, proposing an empathic difference to avoid misidentification and excessive sympathy. Read more here 👇 gtw.hypotheses.org/32681 #theoryofhistory

"The Land Kept Teaching: Climate, Survivance, & Residential Schooling in Inuuvik, Northwest Territories" by Crystal Gail Fraser is the latest in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education, edited by Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/09/t...

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration 31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

American escapist films grew in prominence during the Depression Era 1930s and Frank Capra’s 1937 film, Lost Horizon, was an important Buddhist entry to this genre. The early 20th century romantic imagery of Tibet helped raise interest in the film's Himalayan utopia of Shangri-la. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Tibet

#Fellrunning #Skelwith #SilverHow #LakeDistrict 30 November 2025

1/2 Historians of slavery & Empire have known all along that Lord Biggar’s & History Reclaimed’s interventions in these fields are wholly politically motivated, morally & logically inconsistent and founded on the cherry-picking rather than examination of evidence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our NiCHE Conversation with @sabinelebel.bsky.social is now on YouTube! LeBel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and interspecies solidarity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Q8... #envhist #envhum #orcas #animalstudies

This weekend is the next iteration of Terror Camp, a free online conference for polar exploration enthusiasts, which has the highest level of intellectual content and hilarity I have ever encountered: www.terror.camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social

Excited to see @jonwestaway.bsky.social and coeditors’ great collection in my local independent bookshop @grovebookshop.bsky.social Was going to offer to do signings of my chapter but thought again!

My latest for @canadiandimension.bsky.social “All we are doing is conducting a scientific investigation...we are discovering new species for science, which could disappear if the Vizcachitas mining project were to go ahead," says Cádiz-Véliz, local biologist targeted for opposing the Canadian mine

As a mounting number of Russia's shadow fleet ships sails across the Northern Sea Route to Chinese ports, a Beijing-led business delegation came to Arkhangelsk to discuss shipping

Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026. See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

'These monks also illuminate a lesser-known dimension of Buddhism: its patriarchal structure. Across south and south-east Asia, particularly within the Theravada tradition, male monks enjoy privileges systemically denied to women.' www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Coming out in February, this must read: "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing. The Untold Story of Intoxicants and the Biological Subject in Nineteenth-Century Germany."

'Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KalaallitNunaat #Greenland #IndigenousRights #Colonialism

Here's an excellent piece by Sverker Sörlin on his notion of integrative #humanities.. To solve some of the issues for #science raised in recent posts by @ersatzben.com @richardaljones.bsky.social @profserious.bsky.social we will need more of this thinking www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Profoundly beautiful account of the history of snow studies, the fragility of snow and the impact of the anthropocene by Sverker Sörlin. Also an appeal for a different way of doing #science

Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...

he Miners' Library, Wanlockhead. established 1756. Not quite as old as the one in neighbouring Leadhills, which opened in 1741, but still and important resource for working people. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway

Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'. 📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online 📅 Friday 12 December Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives

This battle to get these recordings released is important just for admirers of Dick Gaughan’s music, but for music fans in general. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

"Seasonality at the Bear Island Indian Day School" by @tweedwoodcabin.bsky.social is the latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/18/s... #envhist #cdnhist

Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

Four new books open up debate on why same-sex marriage has come to anchor queer politics in India, and how the notions and politics of Southasian queer life shift across local, diasporic and transnational scales of identity and belonging. A review essay by Rahul Rao :

Unfurling with a Song: Ecological Themes and the Question of Creative Labour in Contemporary Scroll-Paintings: Tomorrow at 17:30 p.m Join on site or online: univienna.zoom.us/j/6395063435.... (688384) Or in the seminar room 1 of the ISTB (Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7) stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism." Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/17/b... #envhist

It highlights novel ways that Tibetan & Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Edited by @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social and @wiselange.bsky.social Available in #openaccess at doi.org/10.11588/has...

"Climbers wanted her approval more than a certificate. Messner called her 'the only authority' on Himalayan records." ✅ Nice tribute to the founder of the Himalayan Database, Elizabeth Hawley 🏔️ explorersweb.com/remembering-...