Completely obsessed with this advert from 1861 that uses the controversy over Darwin's recent publication to sell some watches.

Celebrate the new nature memoir LATE LIGHT by our own Michael Malay with a nature walk! Dr Malay will lead a group from Toppings in Bath from 9.30am on 27 August - get your ticket here toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/mi…

👏The Tallinn Prize Committee and @esehnextgate.bsky.social (NEXTGATe) received wonderful PhD theses in European #envhist Congratulations to the winner Dr Alice Would , the finalists Önder Eren Akgül, Lisa Cronjäger, Wout Saelens and all the other submissions eseh.org/2023-tallinn-d…

I’m trying to write and my writing nook is perfection itself but also LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING OUTSIDE?

Really excited that my book with Cambridge University Press - History Cambridge University Press, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45, will be out this Thursday on 2 November! Here's a glimpse of the contents page :) Order here: cambridge.org/gb/universityp… #hongkonghistory #hkhist #香港史

We're horrified to hear that our brilliant, dedicated colleague Dr Doseline Kiguru has been denied a UK visa for her six-year-old daughter. Doseline's a fantastic teacher - many of our followers will have benefitted from her guidance. Please spread the word 🙏

More recs for action via Madhu Krishnan (she/her) If you’re in the UK: please write to your MP If you’re international: please write to the VC of Bristol Uni Evelyn Welch asking her to ask the uni to intervene (so far to my knowledge she has not replied to staff emails about this)

This is the same house. Don’t you just love Bristol’s topography?

Every day of the last six months, the nights have gotten longer. This is because the crows are nibbling away at the sun. At sunset today, it will be so small that a crow will swallow it whole and there will never be a day again. Please spend today with the ones you love.

Hello Twitter mind (x mind? Urgh) I’m looking for examples of public facing projects related to the health/ medical humanities with at least one historian involved. For public history teaching. Bonus points for creative outputs. Things like the fab sensing spaces of healthcare

This term Dr Alice Would, Adrian Howkins and I have designed a brand new unit called 'Themes in Environmental Humanities,' which involves a series of field trips and workshops as well as classes nonhuman charisma, queer ecology, and sensory studies, etc. It's been so much fun! 2/2

Funny how some of the big voices around climate catastrophe and planet extinction seem to have very little to say about another unfolding catastrophe & national extinction. Again leading to the conclusion that there's alarm only if the West is threatened in any way.

Earthquakes can slow down your sense of time! Find out why this matters for historians in my new article in @PastPresentSoc. Thoughts on present day implications coming soon. academic.oup.com/past/article/d… @UCLIRDR