Jonathan Westaway

Lady Ottoline Morrell ('A walk near Gastein')

by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
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Mount Everest hikers describe ‘extreme’ conditions as huge rescue effort continues At least 200 people still stranded after unseasonally heavy snowfall during china’s Golden Week holiday

'Mount Everest hikers describe ‘extreme’ conditions as huge rescue effort continues'
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#Trekking #Himalaya #Tibet #China #KamaValley #AdventureTourism

The Geological Turn in Cinema | The Brooklyn Rail This examination of rocks and time includes looks at films such as Harun Farocki’s Transmission, Kaori Oda’s Underground, and Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah’s And still, it remains.

"Antithetical to the idea of the indexical image, geological cinema is composed of the unseeable, the unhearable, pushing our sensorial organs to imagine timelines and scales that span the microscopic to the astronomical."

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

“There are decades when nothing happens, and then days when decades happen.”
#Nepal’s staggering journey from #GenZprotests to new government by Pranaya Rana

Cover of Fear of a Dead White Planet by the More Worlds Collective. The cover art features an undulating curtain of smog against an otherwise clear sky. The texture of the smog has a sketch-like quality. The smog covers most of the page, with the relatively thin strip of blue sky at the bottom of the page. The top of a tree can be seen peeking out from the bottom left-hand corner of the cover.

The Weekly Read is "Fear of a Dead White Planet," by the More Worlds Collective (Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, and M. Murphy), which asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? Read this book now for free! buff.ly/86Bikuh

Stupidology | William Davies The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

"Trumpian stupidity is less a form of organizational inertia or disarray than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things — universities, public health, market data — that help make the world intelligible."

Canadian apparel brand Arc’teryx sparks widespread outrage after artist sets off fireworks in mountains of Tibet. The viral marketing stunt is being reprimanded for its blatant disregard for #Tibet’s ecosystem and culture.

Read more: savetibet.org/the-arcteryx...

New satellite images reveal scale of Putin’s 'flying Chornobyl' test complex Google Earth has updated its images of Novaya Zemlya, the Arctic archipelago where Russia’s nuclear weapon designers are conducting tests of their latest inventions.

Google Earth has updated its images of Novaya Zemlya, the Arctic archipelago where Russia’s nuclear weapon designers are conducting tests of their latest inventions. The Barents Observer zooms in 📡 and highlight the facilities at Pankovo test site for the Burevestnik ⚛️ ☢️ missile.

Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...

We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2

Delighted my new @routledgebooks.bsky.social book "Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North: Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era" is available for preorder routledge.com/Greenpeace-i.... Thanks to all who made this possible! @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sdu.dk @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Two Kinds of Staatsräson – the Diasporist How Germany uses the singularity of the Holocaust to limit liability for its colonial crimes

Read the latest analysis by Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social on how Germany uses the Holocaust's singularity to limit responsibility for its colonial crimes (first published by @versobooks.bsky.social in "Hyper-Zionism. Germany, the Nazi Past and Israel": thediasporist.de/two-kinds-of...

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025 Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

Then I’m off to Manchester for two events—one with @ctimmermann.bsky.social CHSTM in the late afternoon Oct 21:

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Cover of new Royal Historical Society monograph published on 30 October 2025: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu

The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

The second is Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new @nichecanada.bsky.social on the #envhist of residential and day schools in Canada.

Read "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...

#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous

Sheep are more worried about Burns Night and having their guts stuffed with oatmeal and suet....

When I topped the ice-covered Kebnekaise Sydtoppen in 2015, it was still the highest place in Lapland (2098 m asl)!

Since then, it has lost almost 10 meters! 🧊🔥📈
(30 m since the 1980s and 1.5 m since 2024)

And is now below the rocky Nordtoppen (2088.4 vs 2096.8 m asl) ⛰️

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This is a brilliant collection, full of gems, including the work about Orkney and Shetland. Lots to chew on.
#zooarchaeology #envhist 🏺
It can be read for free here: www.sidestone.com/books/farmer...

Moscow pushes Arctic shipping towards disaster Russian authorities are green-lighting ships without ice-class on the Northern Sea Route. This month, it could have ended in catastrophe.

Russian authorities are green-lighting ships without ice-class on the Northern Sea Route. This month, it could have ended in catastrophe

A poem with staggered, right-aligned text. The layout creates a visual flow, with individual words and phrases emphasizing reflection and contemplation.

From Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier’s poem ‘Diction,’ a fragmented account of the massacre at Wounded Knee that communicates the immeasurable loss.

We have a cover!

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

Look what finally arrived! Hooray!!

Ladakh’s resentment of New Delhi has overridden old Buddhist–Muslim acrimony After the revocation of Article 370, Buddhist-majority Leh and Muslim-majority Kargil have united in protest against the BJP and the Modi government, demanding statehood for Ladakh and Sixth Schedule…

From June 2024: Communal divisions have long plagued Ladakh, but @auqibjaveed and @zaidbinshabir wrote about why Buddhists and Muslims decided to bury old resentments to unite against the BJP and the Modi government #LadakhProtests

Polish climber makes history skiing down Everest without bottled oxygen Poland’s PM hails Andrzej Bargiel’s completion of the challenge after two previous failed attempts

The aesthetics of breath on Everest...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
#Himalaya #Nepal #Everest #Mountaineering #Skiing #ExtremeSports

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Iain Sinclair, photo by Travis Elborough

On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen

A London Dreaming: #IainSinclair’s Lud Heat At 50

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National Museum of the American Indian Among Smithsonian Museums Under Trump-Era Review The National Museum of the American Indian—with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C.—is one of eight Smithsonian Institution museums currently undergoing a “comprehensive internal review” t...

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian

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#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd