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Simon Naylor

@simonnaylor.bsky.social

Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited that my article on collecting polar exploration ephemera is live, part of the special issue “Crossings in Polar Art History” for the journal Art History. Thanks to issue editors @issygapp.bsky.social and Mark Cheetham and everyone who spoke to me for this piece, incl. @tchotchke.bsky.social!

‘You will find it at the North Pole when you get there’: Travels in Polar Exploration Ephemera

Abstract. Throughout the long nineteenth century, dozens of exploratory expeditions embarked from Western Europe and European settler nations for the Arcti

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our paper, 'Mapping the mills of early industrial Britain, 1729–1836', is now available, open access, in Journal of Historical Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mapping the mills of early industrial Britain, 1729–1836

This paper examines the capabilities and limitations of Mills of Britain, a recently compiled Historic Geographic Information System (HGIS) dataset do…

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Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Check out the ICHG website. The Conference will be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2028. Save the date! ichg2028.redebrasilis.net

Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Apply now for the Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky

Job Details: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography

The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The workshop, organized by Eva Horn @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26, and Maximilian Hepach @durham.ac.uk brings together expertise from a great variety of fields to explore the notion of the relation between the human body and the weather, historically and today.🔎Program & abstracts: bit.ly/4dvgyMc

Gregory A Good @geocosmohistory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lee MacDonald’s The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is available online uclpress.co.uk/book/the-roy...

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1881–1939

Between the late nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War, astronomy underwent a radical change, from a science centred on the positional measurement of stars to the study of astrop...

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have some hot compost news

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 6mo ago

Canongate has acquired world rights to Fraser MacDonald's The Book of Compost: A Manual for Consolation and Repair 👇 #BookSky

Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @xinyueli.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)’s review of @simonnaylor.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk)’s book _The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire _, pub 2024 @universitypress.cambridge.org #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New book review: Li on Naylor, Simon: _Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire, The_. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20140697

Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I did an op-ed for The Engineer on how and why energy history can help power cleaner energy futures www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...

Comment: History can reenergise our ideas about power - The Engineer

Dr Marianna Dudley explores Britain’s relationship with wind power through the decades

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 8mo ago

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

That Tom Gauld meme of the two opposing nations perfectly mirrored, but edited to be between archives and museums.

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p

Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.

Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I know Glaswegians keep some unusual pets, but I've never come across an aerial quadropus before! If you see Nipsy on your travels around the city, please let their owners know. 😀 #glasgow #glasgowhumour #streetart #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird #findnipsy

Rachel Dishington @radishington.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding. Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River! www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...

Living and Working Along the Leen

Explore historical archival photos and share your own memories, to examine how Nottingham River Leen's meaning for local residents has shifted over time.

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Lord Arse! 🕹️@lordarse.com · 9mo ago

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 9mo ago

The BBC needs someone experienced enough to run a huge media org, and willing to take a job with no security. They need to know the BBC well enough to do the job, but not be an “insider”. They need to somehow be acceptable to a Lab government but also right-wing papers. This person doesn’t exist.

Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!

James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs. Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔

A group of students working with maps in UCL's not-so-forgotten map library

More students who have somehow found their way to the "forgotten" UCL map library I've been using for the last 25 years

Oh look! Students enthusiastically discussing maps as part of their first year core course! Where's this, you say? UCL Geography map library!

Goad maps, Booth maps, maps making a case for the EU as a rival to the US & USSR, maps galore at UCL Geography's map library - if only we knew how to find it! 🤔😭🫠

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com

Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 11mo ago

On strike again. We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves. Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.

Five primary school kids and a snow man on freezing, snowy UCU picket line in February 2018, coincidentally the same month that Sir Peter Mathieson became Principal of Edinburgh University.

The Scotsman@scotsman.com · 11mo ago

🔴 The union said its members had “no choice” but to take industrial action www.scotsman.com/education/ed...

Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China! Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎

Matt McDowell @handle.invalid · 12mo ago

On the archaeology of Scottish skateboarding.

Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists

A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social . #ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist Really excited about this.