Jon Winder

This is going to be fab, hope to see lots of folk there...

Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️

Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc

Booking essential:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

#climatecrisis #londonart

So excited that this project is going to be happening with us in History! Such a great job for someone too 👇

Interesting postdoc at Newcastle being advertised - oral history, archives, environment, wellbeing, with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Revisiting the Playground Were playgrounds originally designed and intended for children's use? Jon Winder explores.

OTD in 1931 the British engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur Charles Wicksteed died.

Best known as a manufacturer of playground equipment and founder of Wicksteed Park, he revolutionised children's play.

Jon Winder (@drjonwinder.bsky.social) explores in this piece from our archive.

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain Abstract. Bust cards first emerged in the late 1960s as a way of obtaining help following arrest, giving the user the number of a 24-h telephone line to ca

Starting a not-quite-so-grey day with more shiny new publications! My article with @drjonwinder.bsky.social & Ellis Spicer on bust cards & policing from the 1960s is now out in advance access in @mbhjournal.bsky.social! Read it open access here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...

Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where children and young people live - Town and Country Planning Association Recommendations and an evidence review from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry into children, young people and the built environment (December 2024) For decades, governments, ...

Where a child lives - the built & natural environment around them – is crucial to giving them the best start in life.
Our report reveals how better planning & urban design can help to raise the healthiest generation in history.
www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/

Thanks so much for pulling this together - could you add me to the second pack please?

Thanks so much for pulling this together - I'd appreciate being on the list.

Thanks for pulling this together!

Thank you so much for pulling this starter pack together, really appreciate it!

Designed for Play is out today (I'm so excited!).

It's free to read online and available to download from bit.ly/3VBUN4V

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7) at University of Liverpool Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

The history department at Liverpool have an opening for a fixed term lecturer in environmental history. More details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN283/l...

The front cover of Designed for Play showing a group of children on a plank swing in the early twentieth century

I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the social and environmental history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online! #playgroundhistories

Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Join the fab Melting Metropolis team on a fully funded #PhD exploring heat, health and human geographies. Deadline for applications 28 June #phdchat #phdlife
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join our NYC team! Our postdoctoral fellow in environmental history ad is out now!

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team!

New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York.

Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March.

www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

I'm not sure I use it to its maximum potential, but happy to help if you ever get stuck!

I've been using it for 5 or 6 years and think it's really useful...

Join our NYC team! Our postdoctoral fellow in environmental history ad is out now!

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team!

New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York.

Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March.

www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

History & Policy: Mobilising the Environmental Humanities

I've booked a place at this History & Policy workshop on Mobilising the Environmental Humanities - and am really looking forward to exploring how #envhist and #envhumn can contribute to addressing climate emergencies...

www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

I was excited to find another Jo(h)n Winder in the archive, but sad to hear his bike was stolen while he was swimming in St Pancras baths...

While exploring back copies of the British Medical Journal this morning, I came across the most gruesome treatment so far:

The Hot Mustard Hip-Bath In Diarrhoea.

Sounds like a pretty murky way to start your day...

If you're interested in a geography PhD looking at:
~ play, space, streets, communities
~ walking, cycling, wheeling (incl for children & YP)
~ social geographies of austerity/cost-of-living crisis
~ or similar
then please get in touch! More info on studentships here: twitter.com/DtpNine/stat...

Canterbury Cathedral

It's lovely to see everyone here - and the wintery blue sky out of the window this morning. Canterbury is looking good in the sunshine. Looking forward to sharing social, environmental and childhood history stuff in due course...