"Letters Across the Sea: Gender, Weather, & Greek Shipping Networks in the Atlantic World, 1900–1930" by Dimitra Chrysoula Kardakari opens our series “Gender & Atlantic Ocean Environments,” co-edited w/ Written in the Waves journal for their special issue Soil & Sea niche-canada.org/2026/09/08/l...

Letters Across the Sea: Gender, Weather, and Greek Shipping Networks in the Atlantic World, 1900–1930

Reading the letters of the Kulukundis family, shipowners from the island of Kasos, Greece, as environmental and gendered sources allows us to see the Atlantic not as a backdrop to the family story, bu...

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Amazing to have had the opportunity to share @araukie.bsky.social 2026 conference in Glasgow about my involvement in @archpbu.bsky.social & @ystadaucymru.bsky.social project's that link North Wales and Jamaica.

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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Ymunwch â ni mewn gweithdy! Join us for an interactive workshop! 21 Gorffennaf/July Memorial Hall, Betws-y-Coed 14:00-16:00 neu/or 18:00-20:00 Cofrestrwch eich diddordeb: Register your interest: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Xe1GbmGnkp @llechicymru.bsky.social

Academic Librarian Emily Chu @senatehouselib.bsky.social introduces Slavery and Anti‑Slavery: A Transnational Archive, such a fantastic resource for researching slavery and abolition! @ihr.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/senate-house...

From Enslavement to Emancipation: Explore a Transnational Archive of Slavery

Academic Librarian Emily Chu introduces Slavery and Anti‑Slavery: A Transnational Archive, a major resource for researching slavery and abolition

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Join us online on Monday 23 March for @brycchancarey.bsky.social discussing The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (Yale UP 2024) in @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk series. Starts 4pm CET, 3pm GMT, 10am EST newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #ecocrit

We've got a fascinating seminar coming up next week on embodied environmental histories of danger in Dartmoor! Join us at 2PM GMT next Tuesday (the 10th) for some dangerous discussions... #envhist #environmentalhistory #nationalparks #envhum #dartmoor #Devon

Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us in a couple of weeks when @lenaferriday.bsky.social will be discussing the narratives of danger that lurk on Dartmoor in the imaginations of the last two centuries. Come along online on 10/03 at 1400. To Sign-up, see here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e...

👀ICYMI: "Through the oral histories, we capture aspects of the experience of research that might be difficult to access in other ways." ✍️ @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant #ResearchMethods #Sustainability #AcademicSKy

What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research - LSE Impact

What can oral histories tell us about the tacit knowledge required for successful collaborative environmental and sustainability research.

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We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Radical Rural gallery trail

Discover the artists, activists and movements championing rural England's people and places today.

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New in Transactions: 'Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources', by @ruthahnert.bsky.social, Katherine McDonough & @danielwilson.bsky.social: bit.ly/460nrkM As the ecosystem of historical research data expands, how do we keep control of source materials, esp digital? #Skystorians 1/2

We're proud to launch Hall Marks: The Long Shadows of Norfolk’s Lost Country Houses. Made possible by a £249,977 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 🛠️ Join workshops across Norfolk 🙋 Volunteer with us 🏚 Visit our exhibition & new Map Explorer in 2027! Visit tinyurl.com/hallmarkspro....

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum

New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

It’s #CfP time for the Association of Welsh Writing in English: this year’s themes are Sites of Memory: Making, Remembering, Forgetting. 15th-17th May, hybrid and Prifysgol Aberystwyth University. www.awwe.org/conference.h...

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​Sites of Memory: making, remembering, forgetting 15 - 17 May 2026   Hybrid Conference – in person  and simultaneously online Aberystwyth University The Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the...

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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Archives Annual Lecture A huge thank you to @alexjioannou.bsky.social Ioannou for the wonderful lecture on Wednesday looking at future landscape change in Eryri against the significant historic change that has already occurred drawing on evidence from the Penrhyn Estate Papers. A night to remember!

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve... And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change

Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

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Thrilled to have been invited to present my work with @ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture. So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!

A new film about my project which looks out to the landscape but also within... Watch on my project's home page: reframing.wales

the fag end of creation - Fascinating insights into value/use of #water as #landscape feature & as part of development of the #Penrhyn Estate #Eryri #Ogwen #heritage Annual Archives & Special Collections Lecture by @alexjioannou.bsky.social #envhist @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social

Brilliant to hear and learn so much in today's workshop hosted by @historicirishho.bsky.social and @heritagecouncil.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie. Also a privilege to share the work undertaken by @archpbu.bsky.social and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social with such an engaged audience!

Very exciting to be visiting Maynooth to share the great work undertaken by @archpbu.bsky.social and @ystadaucymru.bsky.social during the Welsh Government Funded Penrhyn Jamaica Papers project!

Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates@historicirishho.bsky.social · last yr.

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📚🚨 SALE ENDS IN 2 WEEKS 📚🚨 We have 70% off in our new academic year sale! Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic discounts ⤵️ www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/

Think you know the British countryside? From Welsh sheep farms to Cornish copper mines, Professor Corinne Fowler uncovers the colonial roots behind our most picturesque landscapes in our latest talk. 📅 15 October, 7pm Book now: https://f.mtr.cool/ksqvansghy

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH Dr Shaun Evans Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920 5.30pm, 23/10/2015 Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University Croeso i bawb | All welcome!

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...