Alex Hibberts

In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

In "The Treatment of Smog in Britain," Caizhou Cui analyses the roles played by national organizations in raising public awareness and influencing policy on air pollution in 20th century Britain, which served as a model for other nations. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

3 new ahead-of-print articles available now! In "Germany’s Feral Rheas," Chris Halstead examines the establishment of a population of these flightless birds in northern Germany, facilitated by the creation of the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

We're already looking foward to our next speaker, Richard Warren at the University of Bern, who will be speaking about 'Volcanos and Climatic Instability in Early Nineteenth-Century India' on the 2nd at 1500 GMT. Sign up to join us online here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/volcanoes-...

Still time to sign up for this next week!

This is going to be a really interesting talk next Tuesday afternoon!

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Volcanoes and Climatic Instability in Nineteenth-Century India Richard Warren, University of Bern

Sign up is now open for our last talk before Christmas! ❄️

Richard Warren @unibe.ch is speaking about volcanoes, weather and climate in nineteenth century India 🌋

2/12 📆 15:00 GMT 🕒

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We're looking forward to this comming up online on Tuesday afternoon, with our own @islayshelbourne.bsky.social! There's still time to sign up for tickets using the link below:

There's still time to sign up for @islayshelbourne.bsky.social talk on Californian health myths and contagion!

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Come along next Tuesday to hear all about Californian health myths and their impact on perceptions of TB and the 1918-19 Flu. I'm excited to share my findings and delve into all the details that didn't fit into my recently submitted PhD thesis, reincarnating zephrys and mammoth oranges included!

New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

We’ve posted 2 new #openaccess articles in @globalenvironment.bsky.social: W. van Engelen et al., ‘African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana’; & a review of R.K. Barman’s ‘River, Society and Culture’ (@livunipress.bsky.social). Both here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/0/0. #envhist

We've posted another new piece ahead of print in 'Environment and History', being Claudia Leal's article 'Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs'; online here: doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #dogs #mongrels #colombia #latinamerica @eandhwhp.bsky.social

We're looking forward to @islayshelbourne.bsky.social's paper in a few weeks' time, on histories of contagion in modern California. To sign up, use the eventbrite link here: (Just look at the size of those oranges!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/california...

I wee reminder that this is comming up on tuesday afternoon!

A reminder that tickets are still available for Thomas Banbury's talk at 15:00 28/10!

New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️

Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!

📆28/10 15:00

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For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
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Save the dates of these exciting upcoming seminars! Details on how to sign up will available soon.

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The autumn term 2025 card for the NEHN Seminar 1: 28th October 2025, 1500 GMT ; Thomas Banbury (University of Cambridge): 'Against Miasma: New Models of Historical Environmental Medicine' Seminar 2: 18th November 2025. 1500 GMT ; Islay Shelbourne (University of St Andrews) : "'In California the Prognosis is Good': Californian Health Myths and Understanding of Contagion 1850-1920" Seminar 3: 2nd of December 2025, 1500 GMT; Richard Warren (University of Bern, Switzerland): 'Volcanoes and Climatic Instability in Early Ninteenth-Century India' Note: to sign up to the mailing list, please email Alex Hibberts on alexander.hibberts@durham.ac.uk

The nights are drawing in, and the rain is tapping on the windows, which means that we probably ought to be getting our term-card out. Three really exciting papers to look forward to!

In "The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope," Larsen revisits the 1990s scholarly debate over the ‘Ecological Indian’ as a pivotal moment in the history of Indigenous knowledge among anthropologists and conservation scientists. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3... #envhist 🗃️

2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Thanks, Rebecca!!

Thanks, Abbi!!

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be starting a new PDRA position @exeter.ac.uk tomorrow!

AHRC-funded project: Informing Contemporary Land-Use through Sustainability Assessment of Medieval & Early Modern Farming Systems 👩‍🌾🌱🐑🐂

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Offa An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...