Today I finally got to see Nun Appleton House, home of Sir Thomas Fairfax and subject of Andrew Marvell’s 1651 poem 🤩 Here it is in all its glory 🤩🤩 Yes, that’s scaffolding. Literary Britain National Civil War Centre

I’m crossing the Tweed on this grey Northumberland morning, on my way to Edinburgh for the @ASLEUKI Early Career Conference, where I look forward to welcoming a new generation of ecocritics. More tweets to follow…

We’re off to a great start at the @ASLEUKI early career conference with a thought-provoking panel on “Connecting to landscapes and Post-Attentiveness” with Anne Gallagher, Toby Horkan, Andrew Lee, and Lissie Carlile.

Next at the @ASLEUKI Early Career Conference in Edinburgh is “Storied Trees and Forests” with contributions from Angie Hsu, Emma Bentley, James Weldon, and Matías González Marilicán. The session is in the astonishing Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, previously used for dissections!

Simon Hellewell, Sarah Upton, Dorothea Sawon, and Liam-Lucille Wright in discussion after giving excellent papers in the “Senses of Place” panel at the @ASLEUKI Early Career Conference in Edinburgh. And now the whole conference is going for a walk in Holyrood Park!

Day two of the @ASLEUKI Early Career conference in Edinburgh begins with a panel on “Poetics of Noticing/Attention”, featuring papers by Jeremy Allan Hawkins, the conference’s organiser Matthew Lear, Jeehan Ashercook, and Maria Sledmere that span three continents and 1500 years.

We’re heading into the final afternoon of the @ASLEUKI Early Career conference with a keynote address from Eva Haifa Giraud on human/nonhuman animal interactions.

Alnmouth evening.

"Abolitionism and Environmental Justice: Lessons from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century," an original essay by Brycchan Carey Carey, is now available! #history #environment yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030022…

It’s a beautiful clear and sharp night in Alnwick, with the stars bright and the northern lights just dusting the sky with purple and green.

"A huge victory for our environment." We're thrilled the High Court quashed planning permission for this harmful and unnecessary mine. West Cumbria must be at the forefront of a fair, green transition and benefit from green jobs that investment can bring: news.sky.com/story/coal-min…

Tied in to my new book The Unnatural Trade, I've just written a short article on "Abolitionism and Environmental Justice: Lessons from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century" for the Yale University Press blog. yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/09/10/abo…

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I’ve arrived in Manchester for a conference. The view of the sunset clouds from the hotel window gives the impression that the moors are on fire.

A misty Manchester morning. I’m at a conference on Clerical Lives in Britain, 1600-1800, which has been generously supported by 18th Century Studies. I’ll be speaking on my clerical naturalists project tomorrow morning.

I’m on top of the hill in Billinge Wood, Blackburn, Lancs. I’ve no direct evidence, but I suspect Rev. John White (1727-80), Gilbert’s younger brother, might have come up here to remember the Selborne Hangar or the Rock of Gibraltar. John was vicar here after leaving Gibraltar.

Who would like to review Brycchan Carey's book The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030022…). Email [email protected] if so. @brycchan

Very much looking forward to hearing Brycchan Carey talking about 'The ‘rational study of God’s works’: Eighteenth-century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences' at the IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar next Wednesday. history.ac.uk/events/rationa…

I've added 87 names to my list of clerical naturalists, most of them gleaned from the herbariaunited.org/atHome/ database. Many are identified from just a single herbarium item. Please let me know if you have any more information! View the full list at brycchancarey.com/naturalists/br…