ESEH – European Society for Environmental History

Our Asian sister organization apparently had a fantastic conference in Japan last year!

A reminder about our online free book talk with @kbruisch.bsky.social tomorrow!
Join us to hear about Burning Swamps.
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Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!

Postdocs, PhD candidates, and students interested in environmental history, make sure to join our early-career network to learn about new opportunities and conferences around Europe! #EnvHist #EnvHum

We're delighted to welcome Dr. Leona Watson (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) as Editor of 'Environment and History'. Huge thanks to outgoing Editor, Dr. David Moon (@york.ac.uk), for his excellent work over the last few years. We look forward to seeing what's next for @eandhwhp.bsky.social! #envhist

Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist

Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in January. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

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CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9.

#envhist #histsci #animalhist
#conservationhumanities

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
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We're pleased to report that Tim Soens' 2013 article 'Flood Security in the Medieval and Early Modern North Sea Area: A Question of Entitlement?' is now #openaccess, thanks to @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. You can read the piece here: www.doi.org/10.3197/0967... #envhist #northsea @eandhwhp.bsky.social

For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies

Greenhouse Book Talks. Hosted by Dolly Jørgensen & Finn Arne Jørgensen. A pair of hands holds up a pot with a plant growing into a book

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.

Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)

= ensivormental history = HAS GROWN BROADER. MORE POROUS, MORE AMBITIOUS - AND, CRUCIALLY, = more willing to experiment with FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE THAT SIT BEYOND the archive. - sandra seart & marco armiero

“Environmental history has grown broader, more porous, more ambitious—and, crucially, more willing to experiment with forms of knowledge that sit beyond the archive.” - @wildpasts.bsky.social & Marco Armiero

Read more on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2025/12...

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#CFP: “Historical Maritime Ecologies” for the NASOH conference. Panel organized by Derek Lee Nelson, Adam Sundberg & Brooke Grasberger.

Deadline: 15 January 2026

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Conf link: nasoh.org/conferences

#envhum #envhist #bluehum @estuaryharbour.bsky.social

Happy New Year from the ESEH! With many challenges ahead, may 2026 go down as a good year in environmental history! #EnvHist

Members — ICEHO

Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members. #EnvHist

Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…

We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic

Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist

ESEH Vice-President Sandra Swart and former ESEH President Marco Armiero have written a great summary of our last conference in Uppsala, Sweden!

#envhist @wildpasts.bsky.social

Had a blast with Marco remembering how much fun we had with @eseh.bsky.social and some of you get sneaky mentions!

Scholar / PhD students - competition for the project OPUS LAP " Understanding the collapse of the system: crisis and reconstruction of the socio-ecological systems of pre-modern Brandenburg and Greate... Description of tasks:

📢 JOB: PhD student / research position at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

📌 The position is a part of the project “Understanding the Collapse of the System: Crisis and reconstruction of socio-ecological systems in pre-modern Brandenburg and Greater Poland”, directed by Adam Izdebski
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Cattle Commodification in Global History - International Workshop Call for Papers - CATTLEFRONTIERS International Workshop, 3-5 June, Ghent University

#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026

Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci

New #Speak4Nature essay by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡, director of the Rachel Carson Center. Originally published in 2024, this Spanish-language article tells the story of Rachel Carson's ground-breaking 1962 book. Read it here for free: www.fuhem.es/wp-content/u...

#EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #RachelCarson

Four (!) new ahead-of-print articles live now! In "Sick of the City", Beth Wittmann explores the fat body politics of outdoor culture in the US, arguing that body size was a culturally impactful factor in shaping perceptions of outdoor recreation doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

Are you a student, PhD candidate, or postdoc interested in #EnvHist opportunities in or related to Europe? Then our early-career-scholar team is building a network just for you.

CfP: International Congress of the History of Technology, to take place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8–11 October 2026.
Deadline: 31 January. icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
#EnvHist #HistTech #STS

Call for Papers: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations." The conference will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in August 2026, and the submission deadline is 11 January. There are plenty of panels for #EnvHist scholars:
africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

Don't miss the SGAS&VAD conference in Basel - Call for Paper still open until 11 January 2026! Check out our Panel Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes between Environmental Collapse and Elite Control: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap... #envhist #envhum #conservation

We look forward to meeting in Salzburg in 2027!

Original photo by Marina Ahammer
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