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Dr Lena Ferriday

@lenaferriday.bsky.social

Research Associate in histories of wild swimming @ Newcastle University Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday

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Urban History@urbanhistory.bsky.social · 4w ago

📚 @lenaferriday.bsky.social on @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's Contested Commons (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social) "Navickas’ prose is charming and playful, grounded in a commanding grasp of the subject and its enduring significance" 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Katrina Navickas, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. 384pp. 38 illustrations. £20.00 hbk. | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Katrina Navickas, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. 384pp. 38 illustrations. £20.00 hbk.

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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

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Dr Lena Ferriday@lenaferriday.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to be on the line-up for this fab seminar series — if you’re disgruntled with Emerald Fennell, come along next week to immerse yourselves in the dangerous histories of an alternative (and dare I say superior) moor

Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 6mo 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...

Max Long@maxlong.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

Andrew Seaton@andrewseaton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
HistoryLab@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham! Keep on reading to find out more...(1/9)

HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Dr Lena Ferriday@lenaferriday.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🤠 Following a gorgeous year at KCL, I'm returning to research (for the next four years!!) as a PDRA on Beth Turk's wonderful 'Accessing the wellbeing commons' project at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, leading the strand on histories of wild swimming on Dartmoor 🫶 wellcome.org/research-fun...

Accessing the wellbeing commons: therapeutic resource-ification of natural and historic environments and social exclusion in the UK and Inner Asia - Grants Awarded | Wellcome

Accessing the wellbeing commons: therapeutic resource-ification of natural and historic environments and social exclusion in the UK and Inner Asia

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades. But 'beacons of hope' in Aberdeen, Brighton, Bristol, Cheshire West and Chester, Edinburgh, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Manchester. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK’s industrial regions face ‘entrenched disadvantages’ going back decades

Social mobility report highlights ‘extreme regional differences’ in terms of childhood, jobs, innovation and growth

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Francis Taylor@frankietaylor317.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s important not to get caught up in pastoral fantasies that before various technologies we didn’t have many of the same struggles concerning power and equality, but it’s likewise essential to recognize that industrial “progress” involved an era of machines ripping off the hands of child workers.