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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19h

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡

Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 20h

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

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Kresen Kernow @kresenkernow.bsky.social · 20h

📜 On this day in 1820, John Harris FRHS - miner, poet and proud Cornishman - was born at Bolenowe Carn, near Camborne.

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 1d

I loved this one! Material ripe for a snazzy public lecture I reckon...

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 1d

It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together!

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece Sam, I have stuck it straight on the core reading list for a teaching week on urban natures!

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 4d

Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Roundtable: 'The Modern British City'

www.history.ac.uk

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 7d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 7d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 7d

How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?

Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.

Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 7d

The IHR seminar series on 'Bad Habits' look fascinating this term, particularly for @drinkingstudies members as @jameskneale.bsky.social and David Beckingham are both giving talks on their temperance research. More information and sign up here:
us8.campaign-archive.com?u=e075dbc3a1...

London Group of Historical Geographers - Autumn Seminar Programme

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 11d

Oh Jules, congratulations! What amazing news!!

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 14d

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality:Oxford Road

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘uncovering hidden inequality: developing new ways of doing death administration’ directed by Professor Kate Reed in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 15d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 16d

Still can't quite believe I have a couple of poems in this wonderful anthology 'The Book of Bogs', edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social. Such an honour to be alongside a stellar line-up of nature writers 👇
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

The Book of Bogs

This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.

www.littletoller.co.uk

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Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social · 18d

This has brought a delightful start to my research Friday! Feeling energised with new insights...

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 18d

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 20d

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

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First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22d

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 21d

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 28d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is absolutely unhinged from Johnson and others. Kirk was a proponent of Great Replacement Theory who called for gays to be stoned and public lynch mobs to murder trans people. He is the definition of a right-wing extremist. The cowardice, avarice and opportunism of Johnson knows no bounds.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Sep 11

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now also announced on H-Environment and machine-readable.

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CfP: EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION, Workshop, 6-7 November 2025 | H-Net

Call for Papers EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION 6 — 7 November 2025 Centre for Environmental HumanitiesUniversity of Bristol, United Kingdom

networks.h-net.org

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 4

I've already received a few fantastic abstracts, but don't worry, there is an entire week left to send yours!

#envhist #envhum #extraction
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 21

excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
 made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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