It's out today! I am beyond excited to have this strange fish voyaging into the world. I hope you enjoy it! fordhampress.com/9781531506322/…

“Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason” — Vaughn Scribner's essay on how humanity’s supposed aquatic ancestors became wondrous screens on which to project theories of geographical, racial, and taxonomical difference: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mermaids…

We've been very lucky to digitise the beautiful "A fasciculus of the birds of China" by G. R. Gray (1871), from Museums Victoria's Rare Book Library Collection. This copy contains several B&W sketches added after publication by Gray. Look out for it soon on BHL.

We are thrilled to announce our first in-person workshop! Check out the call for papers on our website for more info chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/casn-workshop-… #casn2025 #casnmunster 🐯

New article! 'Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era', by Mimi Cheng (supported by GHI Washington). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.…

台湾繁体版。

This CfP might be of interest to those working on wider environmental history (and surely a few aquatic animals could sneak into possible talk topics!) 🌊🐟🪼

We are happy to announce: the DUNES book is out! Download and read the online version here: doi.org/10.4324/978100…

I've written a short piece about 5 of my favourite books: shepherd.com/best-books/cha…

Sarah Gardner reviews "Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants," by James T. Costa and Bobbi Angell, for the Assn of Botanical Artists - assocbotanicalartists.com/post/darwin-an…

It is now possible to pre-order! upittpress.org/books/97808229…

We are very excited to receive submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers on transnational and global historical themes for our regular seminar. Please do consider applying and circulate this CfP among your peers. #AcademicTwitter #oxford #History

At our #AnimalHistory seminar next week we'll be joined by Neil Ward to hear about 'A More-Than-Human Geography of Equine Britain'. 🗓️ Wednesday 11 December 🕖 7pm (GMT) 📍 Online 🎟️ Free, all welcome Register your free spot today via our website: animalhistorygroup.org/seminar-series/

Australian Recruitment Poster for the Dardanelles (Gallipoli) Campaign (1915)

Call for Papers for the 2nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities to be held in Barcelona, Jun 30-Jul 1, 2025. In-person & online sessions. Event is bilingual in English & Spanish. Deadline for proposals is Jan 15, 2025. eventum.upf.edu/124629/detail/…

Japanese pictorial map of the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia (1942)

View of New York City from Brooklyn, 1824.

Do join us ONLINE tomorrow for our Week 3 session on Wednesday at 2pm GMT on Subaltern labour in colonial Singapore and the Western Front - looking forward to seeing everyone there! NOTE - This session is ONLINE ONLY. MS Teams Link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

Another exciting new animal publication, the translation of Vincent Goossaert's The Beef Taboo in China is now available with the University of Hawai'i Press! 🐂🐃🐄 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-beef…