ESEH – European Society for Environmental History

The Rachel Carson Center just published a virtual exhibition on dunes and coastlines! @envhist @envhum

Funded #envhist PhD position in France!

Verena so throughly deserves this recognition and honour: a founder of the field in Europe, trailblazer academic, known for her conference knitting (which raises money for ECRs to attend), and just a kind, supportive, lovely person.

Verena Winiwarter is, without exaggeration, one of the most important scholars for the development of European #EnvHist, and we are very glad that ICEHO has created an article prize on global environmental history in her honour! #EnvHum

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📯🥁 Read @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social 's note from the president 📝 about our @eseh.bsky.social here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... Thanks for mentioning us!
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ESEH (@eseh@historians.social) 84 Posts, 93 Following, 215 Followers · News from the European Society for Environmental History. Toots by the president (https://hcommons.social/@wilko), mostly with content from the Society's communications team.

I just updated the feed of the European Society of Environmental History with announcements from the last couple of weeks!

https://historians.social/@eseh

Follow us for (irregularly updated—I'll do better, I promise!) #envhist news!

This fall, The Greenhouse is offering three 5 ECTS micromodules @unistavanger.bsky.social, based in environmental history & humanities, online and open for all to take. #envhist #envhum

Please consider supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library! #envhist #envhum

Opportunity in Bristol! #EnvHist

ESEH 2025 Online Conference in August 18 - 22 August - Hybrid - The 2025 European Society for Environmental History Conference is being held in Uppsala, Sweden from August 18th - 22nd, 2025.

ICYMI:

Virtual #ESEH2025 attendees get access to all four of the conference's keynote addresses.

Learn more from our editor and conference organizer, Nicole Miller, here:

niche-canada.org/2025/06/28/e...

@eseh.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climhist

Our North American colleagues are organizing their next conference in Kansas City! Follow them on
‪@aseh.bsky.social‬ #EnvHist

Winston and the platypus: how a bizarre WW2 diplomacy mission to influence Churchill ended in death and tragedy In 1943, Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part zoological experiment, part geopolitical theatre, ended in disaster

We’re pleased to see BBC History Extra adapt another ‘Environment and History’ article for a wider audience. "Winston and the platypus: how a bizarre WW2 diplomacy mission to influence Churchill ended in death and tragedy": www.historyextra.com/period/secon... #envhist #platypus #churchill #wwii

H-Oceans just published a very kind review by Christine Keiner of my book Sea Level: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

What I can definitely agree on are the compliments to the jacket designer, Rae Ganci Hammers, for a stunningly beautiful cover […]

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🪵Forest of Numbers
📌University of Turin, 10–11 July 2025

More info: eseh.org/conference-f...

The conference aims at offering novel methodological insights into quantitative approaches to the economic history of forestry

#foresthist #envhist #EconomicHistory

Open magazine, with article titled «Hyttedassen» (the cabin toilet)

Yay, I have a new article out! I write about Norwegian cabin toilets, holidays, and the idea of nature in Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 1, 2025. It’ll be online, open access, before too long. #envhist

Green BAAS Audit on Environmental Teaching in British American Studies Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

✅ Do you teach about the US & the environment?
✅ Do you work in the UK?

Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...

It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum

Save the date for the last (but very exciting) ESEH online seminar in environmental history of the 2024–2025 season, "Hooked: A History of the Black Sea in Six Animals," with Taylor Zajicek and Constantin Ardeleanu. Register here: forms.gle/pyjgCXSWJcdk...
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HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century - Scientific Data Scientific Data - HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century

"HISTORECO: Historical Spanish transition database on climate, geography and economics of the 20th-21st century" www.nature.com/articles/s41... cc @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

Uncharted Waters? The Principle of Adaptation in Dutch Water Management The Netherlands uses Adaptive Delta Management to future-proof water systems, blending engineering foresight, historical insight, and societal negotiation.

Today on our site we have "Uncharted Waters? The Principle of Adaptation in Dutch Water Management" by
@mauritsertsen.bsky.social

The final post in our Historicizing Adaptation series, edited by
@stundenbower.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/05/08/u...

#envhist #envirotech #waterhistory

We want new members in the ESEHNEXTGATE committee from this autumn 🍁🍂 If you'd fancy joining us, read more about what we do in the piece by the wonderful @wildpasts.bsky.social and keep an eye out for a call in August 👁
#envhist #envhum

📚New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal (@viktorpal.bsky.social) is up and running!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info 👇

Conference in Grenoble in June. #envhist

Nuisance and nuisance-makers in late medieval Nottingham: the Mickletorn jury presentments, 13 October 1407 In late mediaeval Nottingham, matters of nuisance were dealt with by the Mickletorn jury. Drawing on contextual information gleaned from the borough court roles, this article provides a detailed spatial analysis of the nuisances reported by the Mickletorn jury in October 1407 and biographical information on the named nuisance-makers. The role is shown to be unusual in its arrangement and, with its emphasis on removing dung and dunghills, unusual in its content. It is tentatively suggested that this change in procedure and focus may have been prompted by an outbreak of plague in southern and western England, and perhaps indicates that Nottingham town authorities moved proactively to sanitise its streets in an effort to protect its inhabitants in advance of the plague’s expected arrival.

By way of introducing myself to those with #medieval interests, here’s the abstract of a recent article of mine. ‘Nuisance and nuisance-makers in late medieval Nottingham: the Mickletorn jury presentments, 13 October, 1407’ Nottingham Medieval Studies #EnvHist #History #Waste #Plague

Are you doing public #EnvHist? Or do you know somebody who does? The deadline for our Bristol-Bern Prize is 1 May!

Today at 4pm CET: "Rarity and Heritage: Endemic Grapes and Practices of Sovereignty in Georgian Winemaking." This is another installment of our ESEH seminars in Eastern European and Eurasian #EnvHist. Make sure tor register here: forms.gle/epGRgzg9umrq...

📣Stand for the next ESEH election in August 2025!
eseh.org/eseh-electio...
The ESEH encourages its members to take part in helping run our Society; please consider standing/running for election! Members may nominate themselves. The Nominations Committee is happy to respond to all enquiries. #envhist

To all the #energyjustice peeps out there: have you considered submitting and application to our Activism Award yet? Know someone who should be considered? #energy #geography #justice #envhum #climatepolitics #climate

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School! You will be taught be leading experts at the University's world-renowned Centre for Environmental Humanities (1/3)

📚New book series from University of Exeter Press: Environment, Senses and Emotions, edited by Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna).

The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions
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2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

📣Abstract Submission is open!

Join us for the #Anthropocene Sediment Network’s free one day online #conference on the 18th June.

We encourage submissions from all disciplines to consider what we have MADE and what we have MOVED on Earth.

Details here: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
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