The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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This is now part of a special issue - Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940) - alongside a really interesting selection of articles, guest edited by Talitha Ilacqua: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjth20/1...

Journal of Tourism History

Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940); Guest Edited by Talitha Ilacqua. Volume 18, Issue 2 of Journal of Tourism History

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Christian Drury@cjdrury.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have a new article out in the Journal of Tourism History, looking at how travel guides, infrastructure and photography shaped tourism in Norway. What and who did travel guides depict, in text and photographs, and how? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Special issue of Art History journal edited by Mark Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social looks great: Crossings in Polar Art History: South and North, Historical and Contemporary academic.oup.com/arthistory/i...

Volume 49 Issue 2 | Art History | Oxford Academic

Art History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe.

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REMINDER: Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism Deadline for submission: August 3, 2026 Where and when do we see anti-tourism emerge in the historical record? What forms does it take? niche-canada.org/2026/06/24/c... #envhist #envhum #tourism

Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism

We are looking for scholars already working on this topic, as well as those who may have encountered anti-touristic attitudes, conflicts, or forms of resistance in their research without treating them...

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This is a great selection of Frank Hurley's photographs from the Endurance expedition: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition

Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details

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Recently back from sunny Denmark. None of my edgy pictures came out very well, so here's Nyhavn...

An old piece, but this Gideon Haigh article works well as a tribute to Sobers, Caribbean icon and "individual world player": www.espncricinfo.com/story/gideon...

Man and superman

Off the field he may have been an awkward hero, on it Garry Sobers was "evolution's ultimate specimen"

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International rain-watching at the Riverside 🌧️

The last of the light over our (very warm) cricket match at Maiden Castle tonight

Midsummer sunshine after the rain in Durham ☀️

This looks like an amazing PhD opportunity! fully funded "Women Walkers in Latin America" #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO242/p...

PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America at University of Bristol

Discover a PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Wrote a blog post about my great-grandfather’s archive: open.substack.com/pub/leifhamm...

Played my first game of cricket since 2019 (!) today at a lovely ground in Newcastle. We lost, but I got a couple of wickets (and a very slow 5) 🏏

This exquisite drawing of a floating iceberg, drawn aboard a schooner in the North Atlantic in the summer of 1859 by Frederic Edwin Church, who was born on this day (4 May) in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1826 🗃️

At the Riverside. Promising England hopeful Ben McKinney has just been knocked over by promising England hopeful James Anderson

This is a nice piece on The Parks (one of my favourite places to watch cricket) and the history of university cricket more generally www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026...

Oxford University’s Parks cricket ground fights for relevance

First-class cricket is a thing of the past at a venue once graced by future England captains plus Imran Khan

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Spring on the Wear 🌿

PostDoc position in the project “A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950” www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Call for Papers – Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment 12-13 November 2026 Geneva (Switzerland) Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026 "Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments." niche-canada.org/2026/03/30/c... #envhist

Call for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment

Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments.

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Getting ready for the new season

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

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Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪

Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry @karachikhatmal.bsky.social joins to talk CRICKET, including the sport's colonial history and recent events in the world's most heated rivalry. We had A LOT of fun with this one, with something for novices and experts alike. open.spotify.com/episode/3SZ4...

This looks ace! "As the focus intensifies once more on the Arctic, it’s important to remember there isn’t one history, there are many histories. People have long moved in all directions, from all places." Congrats @issygapp.bsky.social and #MarkCheetham! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Arctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession

As far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value

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So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): "Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG" Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR

Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT. Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

"For most of its residents, this is not a talking point or a piece of content from which they can move on or swipe away. It is existential": www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Are they going to bring their violence here?’: Fear – but little preparation – as threat of invasion looms over Greenland

Ahead of high-stakes talks, people tell of alarm, thoughts of fleeing and lack of information on what to do if US invades

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I have a new article out in the Journal of Tourism History, looking at how travel guides, infrastructure and photography shaped tourism in Norway. What and who did travel guides depict, in text and photographs, and how? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This year's Borders and Crossings conference - "New Francophone and Anglophone cross-perspectives on travel writing" - is in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence in September (which sounds very pleasant). CfP deadline: 15th February www.crlv.org/actualites/a...

Winter afternoon in Oxford