@liverpooluni.bsky.social's latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves 🌇 Including @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social researchers @chrisjpearson.bsky.social @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social @chloeduteil.bsky.social 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/06/05/l...

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Latest Original Ideas podcast discusses challenges of and solutions to heatwaves

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How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past 🌇 @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @livunihss.bsky.social @chloeduteil.bsky.social and @drjonwinder.bsky.social co-write for @theconversation.com with Daniel Cumming, Queens College @cuny.edu 👉 theconversation.com/how-london-p...

How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past

Across the 19th and 20th centuries, urban residents developed a range of strategies to manage extreme heat in densely built environments.

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🌇🌡️Temperatures are on the rise again today, so take a look at how people dealt with old timey heatwaves, with @chloeduteil.bsky.social, Jon Winder and the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social team. 🌞 #PhewWotAScorcher

How London, Paris and New York coped in the heatwaves of the past

Across the 19th and 20th centuries, urban residents developed a range of strategies to manage extreme heat in densely built environments.

theconversation.com

Ever wondered how urbanites in the past have tried to keep cool in the summer using water? Our article has answers! ⛲️👇

Jon Winder@drjonwinder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

Sensing Heat, Finding Cool: The Search for Water in Summertime Paris, New York, and London, 1880–1930

Abstract. At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were

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I am beyond thrilled to announce that my first solo article has just come out in French History! The article can be accessed in open access using the link below: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic

Abstract. In Brittany, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, seaweed was more than just a fundamental element of coastal ecologies. It sust

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#ESEH2025 also involved seaweeding with artist Julia Lohmann from the Department of Seaweed!

And it’s a wrap on #ESEH2025! What an honour to have been part of the panel “From the Inside Out: The Environmental and Health Implications of Regulating the Indoor Environment” featuring dusty, hot, and cold homes across the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany, France and Britain

Delighted to have chaired the panel “Sweltering cities: Uncertainty, energy, ethics and experiences of extreme urban heat” by my @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social colleagues this morning at #ESEH2025

“L’été 1911 en France : deux mois et demi de fournaise et 40 000 morts” À lire ici - www.retronews.fr/societe/echo...

L'été 1911 en France : deux mois et demi de fournaise et 40 000 morts | RetroNews.fr - Le site de presse de la BnF

En 1911, les Français vivent deux mois et demi d’extrême sécheresse et de températures anormalement élevées. Une canicule parmi les plus lo...

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The fascinating history lives on —“The hard, heavy work of harvesting seaweed” in www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: The hard, heavy work of harvesting seaweed | Kirsteen Bell

Loch Euport, North Uist: Crofters have harvested the slippery stuff here for centuries, now part of a sustainable system. But it’s still back-breaking work

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It’s getting crowded… www.linkedin.com/posts/meteo-...

🌡️ Cette semaine, le pays est concerné par une vague de chaleur : il s'agira de la 50ème observée depuis 1947. | METEO FRANCE

🌡️ Cette semaine, le pays est concerné par une vague de chaleur : il s'agira de la 50ème observée depuis 1947. Signe du changement climatique, 32 vagues de chaleur ont déjà eu lieu depuis 2000, ...

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We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025. Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

Melting Metropolis@meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · last yr.

FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc 8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025 Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

It was great to share about community & public engagement on @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social with @chrisjpearson.bsky.social on this fantastic panel with Mary Booth, Janaya Pickett, and @downham.bsky.social

History & Policy@historyandpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.

The final session of today’s really lively @ihrlibrary.bsky.social #IHR@Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social workshop on ‘Difficult Histories’.

Great piece by Mike Hulme! (open access link in thread)

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · last yr.

Today’s highlight: “The Unbearable Weight of #Displaced #Weather” by Mike Hulme, from 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 #7 “[We] increasingly experience weather as virtual, vicarious, and sensational, rather than as real, embodied, and sensual. We become #disoriented through this surfeit of unfamiliar weather.”

In London on June 21? Do not miss this special event!

Melting Metropolis@meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · last yr.

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart

Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work. The good news? There are things we can do about it. Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...

As part of my work on everyday experiences of summer heat in Paris on the project Melting Metropolis, I am looking for an illustrator with whom to create a graphic novel bringing together history, climate, and fiction. For more & French, see below ☀️ #heatwave #illustrator #climate #paris #history

New book excerpt from former Carson fellow Catherine Dunlop's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭: 𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. Courtesy of @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #envhist

The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France

A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.

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