Andrew Seaton

Nye is back! 🩺💙📚

The bookshop would like to bring you a NEW display, NEW Nye playtext and NEW Welsh books.

To name a few:
Nye 2025 National Theatre Playtext by Tim Price
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton
Wales As Is by David Hurn

@tomkelsey.bsky.social - new Concorde content just dropped

Congrats, Nick! @npjgarland.bsky.social

1. Clement Attlee Leading Labour · Episode

Congrats to Izzy Conn and @ihr.bsky.social for their new 'Leading Labour' podcast which considers the histories of previous Labour leaders. I joined the cast for the first episode to discuss Clement Attlee:

open.spotify.com/episode/10wB...

For someone who isn't very good at abandoning books even if not enjoying them, the Salt Path revelations couldn't have arrived at a better time

Might have already been suggested, but Hazel Carby's 'Imperial Intimacies'

Anthropocene Histories seminar: Histories of Heating In this Anthropocene Histories seminar Christopher Courtney (Durham) and Abigail Harrison Moore (Leeds) will present work from their own research on humidity and health in China and heating and women'...

In fifteen minutes (3pm UK time) we have a session on histories of heating for the Anthropocene Histories seminar - details here if you'd like to join us on Zoom!:

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

Thanks, John - that's too kind! I was reluctant to pick up another social media platform but here we are..

An upside: Having checked jobs.ac.uk pretty much daily during my six years on the job market and now not bothering because there's nothing on
there means I save about ten minutes every day #efficiency #productivity

This Wednesday, @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social have an online talk about the history of 'scarcity' - details and sign-up below:

@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social's next #Anthropocene histories seminar is this Weds online at 1500 GMT on oceans, fish, and marine economies – all welcome!

#envhum, #skyhistorians, #envhist, #oceans, #ecology, @uclhistory.bsky.social

Full list of past and future events for 2024/2025 academic year here:

Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Scarcity

Another event on 21 May with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind and @robertsuits.bsky.social talking about scarcity. The details are below:

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

We have a great talk coming up on 14 May for the Anthropocene Histories seminar about the economisation of the ocean with Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse, Tamara Fernando and Sophie Page. It's free and online, all welcome. Sign up below.

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

Thanks, Helen - appreciate you sharing

Thanks, Lise

Thanks, John - appreciate that

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them