🎤 Voices for Change: Stories from the Environmental Movement - Public Launch Event. British Library. 23rd October 2025. Tickets: www.tickets.bl.uk/3805/3806 Find out more: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new... #RHULGeogResearch #EnvironmentalMovement #PublicEvent #BritishLibrary #OralHistories

Check out the new issue of #PlantPerspectives on the #arborealhumanities! Including my own first published paper 🎉 whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #envhum #envhist #history #historicalgeography #planthumanities #culturalgeography #RoyalHolloway #KewGardens #RGS #Archives #treebiographies

It has been 20 years since we published this paper. It has been cited at least 278 times since then.

Pre-order my new book Postcapitalist Cities if you like. Or just wait till it's out and steal a copy. Whatever you do, DO NOT use Amazon, please (I would say get a copy from the library, but not sure they'll exist by the time this comes out)

138 bn unworn clothes/ yr by 2050 99% of a t-shirt's lifetime in a wardrobe Some shocking numbers here - and I should know, as @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social and I crunched them for @oxfamgb.bsky.social Months aside, buy more vintage clothing. It's better. www.theindustry.fashion/oxfam-launch...

Members of CQR joined the 2025 INTIMATE Meeting in Cluj-Napoca 🇷🇴. Keynote on Dansgaard–Oeschger events and sessions on ocean, atmosphere, humans & chronology. Wrapped up with a field trip in Transylvania to visit Turda Salt Mine, Cheile Turzii & Rimetea. Huge thanks to the organisers!

For those who might be interested, a recording of my lecture is now available: youtu.be/xD51buje-ts

New blog post: "Imaginary readers" inneskeighren.com/williammacin...

Happy #Publication Day to #AmongtheGiants, a year at the #Kew Arboretum. #OctopusBooks #KewPublishing #KewGardens #gardenhistory #trees #science #climateresilience #climatechange #urbantrees Available at all good book stores now!

Come along if you’re in Brum on the 26th; I certainly won’t be advocating for the imposition of anti-capitalist narcoticism into mainstream geographical thought

🚨 We’re hiring a Lecturer (FT 7.1 months) in Human Geography with particular strengths in cultural geography to support teaching until April 26 (maternity cover). 🗓 Closing date: 21 August 2025 🗓 Interviews: 26 August 2025 🔗 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

BTF V has arrived from the printers! This time we have truly been working in stone time and befittingly the issue is centered around the subsurface: what can be found in the ground under our feet, the rocks that act as conduits to the soil, the depths of the imaginary subterranean…

Find out more about 'Among the Giants' here: www.waterstones.com/book/among-t...

Discount klaxon! My new #book is 25%off preorder this week only at #Waterstones #WPreorder. Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.

Great to be interviewed for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Ask the Geographer podcast series! Toby Butler and I chat to Rachel about oral histories and research. It's a lovely resource for A Level students and anyone interested in how oral history can be used in geography!

📣We will be saying fond farewells to two of our Geography Department legends this summer! After 41 and 25 dedicated years respectively, Don Thompson and Professor Phil Crang will both be retiring from the department at the end of August. #RHULGeogUndergrad #RHULGeogPostgrad #RoyalHolloway

Why are there wildfires in Scotland? This summer's heatwaves are triggering destructive wildfires across Europe. Beyond climate change, Dr Catherine Smith gives a reason why Scotland, often associated with 'cooler' weather, is suffering damage.

Oral History of the Environmental Movement project researchers Toby Butler & Saskia Papadakis went on the Royal Geographical Society’s 'Ask the Geographer' podcast to talk about Using Oral Histories for Research. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and... #RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #oralhistory

New research by academics from @rhulgeography.bsky.social rewrites Ice Age migration timeline. The new paper reveals that parts of Southern Britain began warming nearly 700 years earlier than previously believed. Read more: ow.ly/ZJPE50WkXgC @natecoevo.nature.com

VERY excited to share our new @oppressive_heat paper: Towards a decolonial heat-health nexus We show how heat stress science and policy has been - and is - shaped by colonial and post-colonial interests, from the 19th century to now More here👇: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New blog post: "Dreaming of Constantinople" inneskeighren.com/williammacin...

We've just published a paper on human occupation of the NW European margin and the importance of local climate reconstructions during the Lateglacial period. The paper represents a lot of work by myself and my coauthors over many years, we're all happy to see it published at last rdcu.be/eusdJ

⭐ Geography Super Stars ⭐ In addition to Professor Katie Willis recently winning a Royal Geographical Society Taylor & Francis Award, Professor Phil Crang & Laboratory Technician Iñaki Valcarcel have won @royalholloway.bsky.social Education Excellence Awards! #RoyalHolloway #geography 🧵1/2

It was great chatting with people about #wetwoodland biodiversity at the RHUL Research Festival. My first introductory poster for my PhD! Many more to come... @wetwoodlands.bsky.social

New blog post: "All (archival) roads lead to Rome". inneskeighren.com/williammacin...

Coming this Autumn....

new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man! this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃 blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

Congratulations @lauraboyall.bsky.social for passing her PhD viva with (very) minor corrections! A unique integration of modern monitoring, palaeoclimate, Bayesian modelling, data model comparisons & sci-pol. Expertly examined by Prof Caitlin Buck & Prof Jonathan Holmes. @rhulgeography.bsky.social

I could talk about The Wire all day, but alas, I only had an hour or so with these wonderful guys. It was still a great conversation about the police, capitalist realism and everything in between. Have a listen!

How has the Environmental Movement developed in Scotland? A Witness Seminar Thursday, 5th June 2-6pm University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building, George St, Glasgow Would you like to join as part of a small audience? Free entry. www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh... #RHULGeogResearch

🎉 New Journal Article Alert rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @sazpaps.bsky.social #RHULGeogResearch #royalholloway #royalhollowayuniversity #rgs_ibg

Had the immense pleasure of seeing the maestoso @inneskeighren.bsky.social of @rhulgeography.bsky.social for his inaugural professorial lecture. A tour de force detailing the life of William Macintosh & his place in geographical lore. A superb lecture by a superb (and immaculately dressed) academic.

Join us for 'The archive in the armoire: rediscovering the global lives of William Macintosh' - Professor Innes Keighren's Inaugural Lecture. 20th May, 6:15pm, Moore Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway University Admission is free, booking is essential www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Huge congratulations to Professor Katie Willis on receiving the @rgsibg.bsky.social Taylor & Francis Award for excellence in the promotion and practice of teaching and learning in higher education. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new... @royalholloway.bsky.social

We are looking forward to it too Siobhan! Join us in person to hear Siobhan give the 8th Cosgrove Lecture today at 5:30pm in the Queens Lecture Theatre #royalholloway www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camera-geo...

Visit to Chat Moss area yesterday to plan our new long-term monitoring site with @naturalengland.bsky.social looking at tree establishment and understanding more about trees and #peat in the context of restoration. The work is part of the @wetwoodlands.bsky.social network of monitoring sites.

Fantastic day of insightful discussions and ideas on #peatland #resilience at the @bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social workshop yesterday. Excited to collaborate on the next steps with such a great group! @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

'I can see the sea' teacher resources designed by the @rgsibg.bsky.social and @royalholloway.bsky.social (RHUL) win a Highly Commended Geographical Association Publishers' Award. The work was funded by the RHUL impact accelerator scheme. www.rgs.org/about-us/our... www.rgs.org/schools/reso...

Dr Toby Butler is chairing a discussion at the Turner Contemporary Gallery on environmental campaigning, in part reflecting on Steve McQueen's exhibition Resistance which covers 100 years of documentary photography. turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/eve...

A last plug for my inaugural lecture—"The archive in the armoire: rediscovering the global lives of William Macintosh"—which will be held in person at 18:15 on 20 May at Royal Holloway (a recording will be published online afterwards). All details here: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

Very happy to share the publication today of a new blog post on Transforming Society with Bianca Vienni-Baptista on progress with inter- and transdisciplinary research methods and results: lnkd.in/eDHACE7C and our recent special collection in Julie Thompson Klein's memory: lnkd.in/e7EPAtgm

NEWS!!! If you're in #Glasgow in June and want to hear about the history Scottish environmental movement, we've assembled a 'witness seminar' of activists and policy makers, and the event is public - get your free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

Earlier this month I visited the excellent "Sector 2: Nicosia" exhibition at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia and have reviewed it for the @jofhistgeog.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... #Cyprus

Fabulous evening at the Private View of the new Kew #exhibition The Power Of #Trees! Including 20 new works of art by the #Bedgebury Florilegium Society. Wonderful variety of pieces of #art across the different galleries. New book out for the exhibition including a history of Bedgebury by ME!!!

🚨 We are inviting applications for a 12-month, teaching-focused Lecturer position in Human Geography to teach on our Political Geography and Cities modules and contribute to our MRes programmes. 🗓️ Apply by: 23:59 BST, Friday 2nd May 2025 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography (esp. urban and political geography) @rhulgeography.bsky.social. Salary: £49,325 p.a. Application deadline: 2 May 2025. Starting date: c. 1 September 2025. Details: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands - new paper in Nature. Professor Ian Candy's research on the sediments within the cave helped to understand the pattern of human habitation that the deposits contain. rdcu.be/eg7vK #environmentalreconstruction #rhulgeogresearch

My ode to the cats of Nicosia: I’m really more of a dog guy, but this city brings out the ailurophile in me

Lovely day chatting all things #peat wet woodlands for @eduley.bsky.social PhD meeting at Goss Moor Cornwall.Fascinating site & lots of interesting research to understand more about these ecosystems! @scootjd.bsky.social @tomroland.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @wetwoodlands.bsky.social