Dr Andy Flack
@drandyflack.bsky.social
I'm an environmental historian, currently working on 'dark natures' and their animal inhabitants. Previous work on captive environments, including my book The Wild Within.
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Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
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Break up your marking by immersing yourselves in the sensory world of 19thc exhibitions! Looking forward to hosting this talk in a couple of hours 🎭
The Bristol Senses and Sensations research group is delighted to be able to host a virtual seminar with @jbhist.bsky.social and @medhistoryman.bsky.social on 14 May at 4PM BST. They'll be presenting 'Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, Spectacle and Military Modernity in Late Victorian Britain'
May 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Break up your marking by immersing yourselves in the sensory world of 19thc exhibitions! Looking forward to hosting this talk in a couple of hours 🎭
This is happening today - and here is the link: tinyurl.com/48t8a8dx. Do join us at 4pm!
May 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is happening today - and here is the link: tinyurl.com/48t8a8dx. Do join us at 4pm!
The Bristol Senses and Sensations research group is delighted to be able to host a virtual seminar with @jbhist.bsky.social and @medhistoryman.bsky.social on 14 May at 4PM BST. They'll be presenting 'Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, Spectacle and Military Modernity in Late Victorian Britain'
April 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The Bristol Senses and Sensations research group is delighted to be able to host a virtual seminar with @jbhist.bsky.social and @medhistoryman.bsky.social on 14 May at 4PM BST. They'll be presenting 'Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, Spectacle and Military Modernity in Late Victorian Britain'
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Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
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I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!
Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)
April 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!
Hsuan Hsu (UC Davis) will be giving an online talk (for Bristol's 'Senses and Sensations' Research Group) on 'Olfactory Worldmaking' tomorrow at 4pm BST. To register, follow this link: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Senses and Sensations online talk: Hsuan Hsu (UC Davis), Olfactory Worldmaking. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the m...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Senses and Sensations online talk: Hsuan Hsu (UC Davis), Olfactory Worldmaking. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the m...
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us
March 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hsuan Hsu (UC Davis) will be giving an online talk (for Bristol's 'Senses and Sensations' Research Group) on 'Olfactory Worldmaking' tomorrow at 4pm BST. To register, follow this link: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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‘Along the way, students encounter the supernatural, nocturnal animals, lighting technologies, blackouts, gendered violence…’
Fancy learning more about the history of darkness? Have a read of @drandyflack.bsky.social new blog about his third year unit ‘Dark Pasts’ bilt.online/dark-pasts-r...
Fancy learning more about the history of darkness? Have a read of @drandyflack.bsky.social new blog about his third year unit ‘Dark Pasts’ bilt.online/dark-pasts-r...
Dark Pasts: Research-rich teaching in History
The Practice Over the past several academic years, I have taught a Final Year History undergraduate unit drawn directly from my own innovative research into the history of night-time in the modern…
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February 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘Along the way, students encounter the supernatural, nocturnal animals, lighting technologies, blackouts, gendered violence…’
Fancy learning more about the history of darkness? Have a read of @drandyflack.bsky.social new blog about his third year unit ‘Dark Pasts’ bilt.online/dark-pasts-r...
Fancy learning more about the history of darkness? Have a read of @drandyflack.bsky.social new blog about his third year unit ‘Dark Pasts’ bilt.online/dark-pasts-r...
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‘there are a number of things that happen around the middle of the twentieth century that together have a fundamental impact on the way people see the world...’ have a listen to our very own @drandyflack.bsky.social
🌎 Dr Andy Flack (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins #BBCAntiSocial to explain how our understanding of the natural world has changed throughout history, with particular reference to Charles Darwin, Rachel Carson & David Attenborough
Listen to the full talk 👉 bit.ly/4hFQ5uM
@drandyflack.bsky.social
Listen to the full talk 👉 bit.ly/4hFQ5uM
@drandyflack.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘there are a number of things that happen around the middle of the twentieth century that together have a fundamental impact on the way people see the world...’ have a listen to our very own @drandyflack.bsky.social
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There are moles and bats! Echo Worlds by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social in our special issue The Senses and The Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... co-edited by @gfitz.bsky.social #animalhist #envhist #envhum #skystorians
February 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There are moles and bats! Echo Worlds by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social in our special issue The Senses and The Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... co-edited by @gfitz.bsky.social #animalhist #envhist #envhum #skystorians
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Our new special issue on The Senes and the Environment is out!!!🥳🥳🥳 save for the introduction which will be in the print version in June 2025. Such great articles by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social and thanks to our co-editor @gfitz.bsky.social
3 ‘online first' articles (gated): Cook & Jackson on Australia’s Lower River Murray, 1880–1940; Petrick on Alcohol in The Little Ice Age; and Lafay on Imperial Climates in the 19thC Gulf South of the United States' #envhist #envhums #LIA liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0
January 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our new special issue on The Senes and the Environment is out!!!🥳🥳🥳 save for the introduction which will be in the print version in June 2025. Such great articles by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social and thanks to our co-editor @gfitz.bsky.social
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“It’s time to think about ability as well as disability. To properly understand what ability means we need to look beyond the human, too.”
historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/891 🗃️
@uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobrisceh.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social
historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/891 🗃️
@uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobrisceh.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social
It’s Time to Think About Ability as well as Disability | Historians at Bristol
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January 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“It’s time to think about ability as well as disability. To properly understand what ability means we need to look beyond the human, too.”
historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/891 🗃️
@uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobrisceh.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social
historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/891 🗃️
@uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobrisceh.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social
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Published alongside a wonderful article from @drandyflack.bsky.social and Alice Would on sensory scientific investigations and to be followed by further articles on the senses!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
Liverpool University Press
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Published alongside a wonderful article from @drandyflack.bsky.social and Alice Would on sensory scientific investigations and to be followed by further articles on the senses!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
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New blog post by @drandyflack.bsky.social to mark Disability History Month. Andy argues for the need for historians to think about ability, and to consider a more-than-human context. With Alice Would he recently published on this topic in History and Theory historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🦇🦉
Historians at Bristol | From the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol
historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 9:37 AM
New blog post by @drandyflack.bsky.social to mark Disability History Month. Andy argues for the need for historians to think about ability, and to consider a more-than-human context. With Alice Would he recently published on this topic in History and Theory historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🦇🦉
Excited to finally have this article @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social see the light of day (!). Here, Alice Would and I examine the historical roots of the idea of 'ability' by thinking with dark-dwelling animals, disability studies, and environmental history: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
November 22, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Excited to finally have this article @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social see the light of day (!). Here, Alice Would and I examine the historical roots of the idea of 'ability' by thinking with dark-dwelling animals, disability studies, and environmental history: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
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Check out our very own Andy Flack’s musings on bats
Its Halloween so here's a treat: a documentary - Listening to Graveyard Bats - that I recently recorded with Caleb Parkin, Kathy Hinde and Bruce Guthrie for Avonside Studios. Spooky...
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
Listening to Graveyard Bats at Halloween
This programme is all about deep listening in nature. Specifically listening to the bats near an old railway line that runs between Bristol and Bath.
Caleb Parkin (Poet), Bruce Guthrie (Counsellor a
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October 31, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Check out our very own Andy Flack’s musings on bats
Its Halloween so here's a treat: a documentary - Listening to Graveyard Bats - that I recently recorded with Caleb Parkin, Kathy Hinde and Bruce Guthrie for Avonside Studios. Spooky...
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
Listening to Graveyard Bats at Halloween
This programme is all about deep listening in nature. Specifically listening to the bats near an old railway line that runs between Bristol and Bath.
Caleb Parkin (Poet), Bruce Guthrie (Counsellor a
soundcloud.com
October 31, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Its Halloween so here's a treat: a documentary - Listening to Graveyard Bats - that I recently recorded with Caleb Parkin, Kathy Hinde and Bruce Guthrie for Avonside Studios. Spooky...
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween
The University of Bristol's Environmental Humanities summer school for undergrads is running in summer 2025. Please do send on your students! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... Includes a short film featuring me and fellow environmental historian, Alice Would.
Environmental Humanities
Explore our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis.
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October 8, 2024 at 7:33 AM
The University of Bristol's Environmental Humanities summer school for undergrads is running in summer 2025. Please do send on your students! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... Includes a short film featuring me and fellow environmental historian, Alice Would.
Here's a fun postgrad opportunity to work with me on 'dark things' at Bristol. Please circulate! www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/postgr...
Nocturnal Worlds
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September 12, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Here's a fun postgrad opportunity to work with me on 'dark things' at Bristol. Please circulate! www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/postgr...
Returning to the draft book intro today to take stock… so many dark feet and dark wings well on their way…
September 4, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Returning to the draft book intro today to take stock… so many dark feet and dark wings well on their way…
Mysterious… why are so many people following me today? I hope I’ve not become infamous….
September 3, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Mysterious… why are so many people following me today? I hope I’ve not become infamous….