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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 16h

greatest book ever written

Cover:
The Cow Who Fell in The Canal
Phyllis Krasilovsky

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update - On History

What’s new in BBIH?  The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

blog.history.ac.uk

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 4h

Fungi and other finds from a visit to the Great Wood near Keswick in the English Lake District last week - particularly exciting to find Hen-of-the-woods (Maitake) which I’ve never found before, it’s not common in the UK. Pen and watercolour sketches.
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#fungi #lichen #plants
#fungiFriends #art

Ink and watercolour sketches of finds from Derwentwater, UK - lichen, acorns, horse chestnut case, honey fungi, grey knight fungi, amethyst deceiver fungi, hen of the woods (maitake) fungi and bonnet fungi.

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe your path today could take you to Episode 2 of ‘Winter Well’ on Radio 4.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

There is a stop at the library and the ‘Wintering Well’ loan service with SAD lamps in Scotland ☀️

Anchored by
@slipshodspeller.bsky.social

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 23h

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/

SSHM 2026: In/Out

Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

sshm.org

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Chris Warren @christian-s-warren.bsky.social · Nov 25

Available now wherever you buy your #history of rickets books, including directly from the U. Chicago Press site! 🗃️https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo236934960.html

Starved for Light

A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a child...

press.uchicago.edu

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 17h

Call for Abstracts for special issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal Of Criticism and Theory with theme of Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives. Submit by Nov 30, 2025. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 1d

Want to do a PhD in social science & humanities at Durham? Interested in social justice or health / digital / environmental humanities or a mix of these? I’ve been working in fab cross-dept PhD supervisions and further to to our ESRC DTP, we’ll open a call for 8 H&SS PhD on 3 Nov.
#EnvHum #MedHum

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Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social · 3d

And before I forget: there's a discount.

Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Please share this with all of your tree-inclined contacts and especially with your library ☺️🌳

Solvejg Nitzke
Making Kin with Trees
ACultural Poetics of Interspecies Care
Connects writing on trees with state-of-the-art
environmental thinking
Provides a comprehensive analysis of science and nature
writing on trees as mediators of interspecies care
Provides comparative analysis of non-fictional writing on trees
and their role in fostering future co-existence

Part of the book series:
Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation,
and Difference

Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT

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Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social · 3d

Still waiting for hardcopies to arrive, but can't wait to announce that

Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care

has been published!

It's part of "Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference" find it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Making Kin with trees on a computer screen. Cover shows a wall with tree branches behind it and the shadow of branches on it

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations!! 🥳

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d

Today I learned there’s a penguin called Jane Goodall and she’s travelled 5000km since April.

A map of the east coast of South America, with several tracking lines, each representing a penguin. Jane Goodall’s line is highlighted in pale pink. There is also an inset with her facts and figures: body weight 4600g, tagged 25th April 2025, distance travelled 4769.3 km, average speed 2 kmh.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

Graduates are facing a tough entry level market, but they are doing better than others who recently entered the labour market for the first time shows @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
on.ft.com/3IXwY3F

Graphs: Unemployment has risen faster among new labour market entrants without a degree on both sides of the Atlantic Unemployment rate among new entrants to labour market

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week!

#envhist #envhum

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 5d

👀 ESEH 2027 will be held in...

Salzburg! Read more here: eseh.org/eseh-confere...

#envhist

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 5d

McFadden has previously spoken at length about wanting everything to be like a start up - the whole 'move fast and break things' mentality.

He's ignoring evidence of what works in community/health settings and where previous approaches that stigmatise or alienate sick and disabled people cause harm

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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting study which recreated a 100+ year old Swiss plant survey.

The bad: Average plant diversity -26% (~-40% in the Mittelland)

The good: Loss can be halted & even reversed! Biodiversity areas work, as well as farmers adjusting their methods

#envhist

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 6d

2. The current rhetoric of those who mobilise racism for political gain proposes that those who investigate colonial history and modern racism are the problem. Not racism itself.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 6d

3. Meanwhile Jenrick says he's concerned that "people are living parallel lives". Yet his home county identifies as 96.9% white and his constituency identifies as 98% white. The parallel universes in his own back yards speak volumes. Meanwhile, Handsworth is one of Britain's most diverse areas.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 6d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by @draflint.bsky.social's poem, 'To all Walkers' (currently on display at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle) the Farrell are running a series of masterclasses, led by poet Anna Woodford. Info and booking here: www.farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/cit...

Explore language and landscape in this poetry masterclass series led by poet Anna Woodford.

Join us for a poetry masterclass series inspired by the Farrell Centre’s Ideal City project. Focusing on one of the project’s exhibitions, Keep on the Grass, we will work from the urban landscape finding poetic inspiration in unsung places – from road signs to public footpaths and much more.

Over the course of four sessions, facilitator and poet Anna Woodford will guide you through a series of writing exercises, prompts and walks to expand your writing practice. Open to all levels, this four-part series will help you develop your poetic voice, try new techniques, and look at your surroundings with fresh eyes.

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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 5d

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!

📆28/10 15:00

@eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 5d

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 11d

REALLY appreciating Lucy Noakes's clear connecting of the dots between the announcement of maintenance grants for 'priority courses' and the Cold Spots mapping by the @britishacademy.bsky.social.

You can't ensure access in a system that ties disciplinary coverage to competition.

On the ground, this fall in total enrolments is sharply exacerbated by changing recruitment practices, as previous high-tariff institutions revise their offers to secure larger undergraduate intakes. Those bearing the brunt are, of course, the institutions which currently serve the most disadvantaged and least mobile students. The risk is now of a worsening spiral of decline—driven by a failed policy of institutional competition and marketisation—which results in options for the most in-need aspirant history students being, quite literally, closed down. Without this core provision, any lingering question over which subjects might qualify for maintenance grants becomes obsolete.

If, as the Education Secretary claimed this week, the government is serious about choice, social mobility and access to education it needs to appreciate that the provision of local universities and courses is now at considerable risk given the financial turmoil affecting UK higher education. What’s clear is that our current situation and trajectory is not a route to greater choice and accessibility. Rather, it is a potential channelling of resources and students into an ever narrowing range of options deemed by policy makers as being in the country’s best interests for the future.

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