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I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.

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IHR Workshop for new history research students - 8 Oct 2025. Learn about the work of the IHR while meeting our friendly staff to learn how we can assist you as a research student in history and/or history-related fields. Free to attend, but booking is required
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Loving the daily insights into your trip, keep them coming!

Michael and Joanne delivered a wonderful presentation on this research to the Bristol Senses and Sensations group earlier this year, so I hugely recommend reading their new article!

Energy, its infrastructures and the everyday: challenges of sensing the intangible On 19 and 20 May 2025, the Energy Lives! project held its first two-day workshop exploring how we can study senses and emotions in historical energy transitions. Bue Juul Poulsgaard and Nathalie Berga...

in May, Energy Lives! organised its first workshop exploring how to study senses, emotions and energy.

Read more about it in this conversation written by @nathaliebergame.bsky.social and Bue Juul Poulsgaard ⤵

#energylives #energyhistory #nordforsk

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For those curious about what venue was edited out of that Guardian toilet police story:

KOKO - What's On Full listings of all the electronic and live music events at KOKO in Camden, London.

A useful list of what's on in the next few months at Koko Camden.

If you are able to contact any of these performers to ask them (extremely politely) to reconsider their gigs, please do. I'm sure many will be both sympathetic & unwilling to be associated with a venue that behaves as it has done.

If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events:

18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis...

26 June, Linnean Society, London
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu...

9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...

Lots of great urban hist stuff up for review here!

Very envious of this excellent opportunity for PhD students!

A film about a long healing walk by the sea – what to see, watch, read and listen to this week Plus a bold debut work from a young Palesthinan writer and a new album from a misunderstood 90s band.

Plus a bold debut work from a young Palesthinan writer and a new album from a misunderstood 90s band.

The Salt Path taps into a long history of searching for healing on England’s south-west coast Heading to the coast for fresh air, walks and dips has been prescribed for those looking to improve their health for hundreds of years.

'The Salt Path' follows a couple's 630-mile walk along the UK's south-west coast, after a terminal diagnosis & money woes.

@lenaferriday.bsky.social (@kingsartshums.bsky.social) explains the history of seeking healing along the coast for @uk.theconversation.com⬇️

theconversation.com/the-salt-pat...

It's been a wonderful first term at @kingshistory.bsky.social teaching the histories of science, the environment and the senses to a hugely engaged bunch of students! Managed to get some field-trip sensory walking action in which went down a treat: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sensory...

Heading to the cinema to watch #TheSaltPath this weekend? Firstly, you should it’s a wonderful watch!
And when you do, have a quick read about the long history of healthy walking on the @southwestcoastpath.bsky.social that @raynorwinn.bsky.social’s story has tapped into!

#swcp #naturewriting

Ooh! Wake up, babe! New research resource just dropped. Recordings of 78 Exmoor residents, made between 2000 and 2002, are now online.

exmoor-oha.swheritage.org.uk/home.html

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping Wild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire landowner was wrong to ban it on his land. Dartmoor was – until the legal action – the only place in England where wild camping without the permission of the landowner was enshrined in law. In Scotland, people have enjoyed this right since 2003. Continue reading...

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules

Just back from a lovely few days in Gothenburg, workshopping sensory energy histories with the NordForsk Energy Lives! project team ☺️

Wahey, very excited about this!

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Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history.

The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

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Break up your marking by immersing yourselves in the sensory world of 19thc exhibitions! Looking forward to hosting this talk in a couple of hours 🎭

We're looking forward to our talk! Do sign up if you want to hear about the immersive experience of the late 19c exhibition! All the senses covered!

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Specimens in #museums tell both scientific & human stories.
Scientifically this individual #bee at @nhm-london.bsky.social was used to describe a new species.
Socially, the bee was collected on the Younghusband Expedition, when Britain invaded Tibet and killed 2-3000 people in 1903-4. #NaturesMemory

If anyone is in Montreal for Uncommon Senses this week, @drandyflack.bsky.social and I will be about so give us a shout for drinks/ dinner/ sensory chats!

#sensoryhistory #skystorians

Nearly at 700 names now. Keep signing! Keep sharing!

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Historians, please sign!

Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

‘Koole’s book is at once a history of ideas, of the way scientists, sociologists, educators and lawmakers thought about touch, and a cultural history of everyday encounters between bodies.’

Hannah Rose Woods on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain:
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The Bristol Senses and Sensations research group is delighted to be able to host a virtual seminar with @jbhist.bsky.social and @medhistoryman.bsky.social on 14 May at 4PM BST. They'll be presenting 'Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, Spectacle and Military Modernity in Late Victorian Britain'

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Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk.

Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...