Exciting PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews School of Art History School of Art History, University of St Andrews: ‘Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art’ >>>

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHH237/sgs…

Fantastic opportunity for someone to do a PhD at Keele on the social and environmental history of peat and current implications of its extraction, with the super sharp Ben Anderson as supervisor >>

keele.ac.uk/surf/currentca… 12. The Peat District: Telling Stories about Extraction, Storage and Landscape Change. Contact: Me! [email protected]. This is about Peat: a real treasure of these islands, with unique cultural resonances, ecologies, pasts and futures...

Join us Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 13-14 March for a Symposium on Art, Activism & Ecological Extraction, by Dr Sria, Mark Sealy @Bindi_Vora Autograph.

I will talk about Black Ecofeminism in Court: Litigating for Climate Justice & Reparations.

Register here: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forth…

OK, break from SURF to promote... ANOTHER PHD opportunity. Come and work with The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust me, Dr Charlotte Wildman and Dr Mike Nevell on a brilliant project connecting New Towns history, critical heritage and participatory research. Deadline 20th March. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGD061/phd…

Fantastic lecture this evening by Ruth Craggs on the experiences of South African geographers under apartheid. Do look out for the recording. >>

Another fab event at the Paul Mellon Centre. >>

A brilliant PhD opportunity for anyone interested in researching rural modernism and reservoir building across the British isles. >>

🔔Call for Papers🔔: ‘Environmental histories of Scotland: mapping out a way forward’

We invite proposals for contributions to this workshop co-organised by Prof. Annie Tindley and myself

Hosted at the University of Stirling w/c 15 April 2024 (date tbc)

Deadline: 19th Feb 2024

The Department of Architecture at MIT seeks candidates to fill two tenure-track faculty positions focused on sustainability, resilience, and equity within the built environment in the context of the climate crisis. Deadline: 1/15/24

Learn more: architecture.mit.edu/jobs

Join us for a Research Seminar with Alex Bremner

In this talk, Bremner will discuss some of the salient cultural, political and technological themes from his recent book Building Greater Britain.

🎟️:paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forth…

’Shopping’ in Luleå, Sweden, last week — the first purpose built indoor shopping centre. Opened in 1955, it was designed by Ralph Erskine. Much has changed but the labyrinthine interior remains.

Amazing opportunity to do a funded PhD, on Kew's records of plant exchanges -a little known wonderful series! Come & explore it with the support of a great team from University of Southampton University of Exeter Kew Gardens Library and Archives #Plants #People #DigitialHumanities #ColonialHistory tinyurl.com/mz5auzz9

When constructing the popular dry ski slope from waste land in east London (early 1980s), according to Mark Hobbs, soil was taken from the construction of the basement levels of the British Library’s new building to resurface and sculpt the waste heap.

Wonderful essay on the potential, practicalities and ethics of reuse, by my colleague Simone Ferracina >>

NCAP needs a Collections Manager! If you are experienced in managing multiple collections mgt systems inc info transfer, data mgt & cataloguing to intl standards, then this could be a great opportunity for you. #NCAP #HeritageJobs #Archives #ArchiveJobs applications.historicenvironment.scot/intranet/job_s…

A great new article on landscape architects and the quest for leisure in derelict Britain. Wonderful discussion on developments in the Potteries among other areas.

💫 hot off the Heritage & Society press 💫

I wrote this article as part of the #NuSPACES project- it examines the increasingly fast-paced research re the materialities, communities& locations of nuclear cultural heritage

Open access, so available to all

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An update! Aerial Investigation and Mapping Data is now accessible via Historic England’s Open Data Hub …endata-historicengland.hub.arcgis.com. Available to download, via various ArcGIS applications or as an API. 100,000+ sites recorded from aerial photographs and LiDAR for you to explore.

This is a great post on the over 400 modern pithead baths built between 1921 and 1952 under the direction of the Miners' Welfare Committee regional architects departments.
modernisttourists.com/2017/01/01/the…