Looking forward to sharing my research as the first talk in the Northern Environmental History Network's spring seminar series! I'll be looking closely at a handful of 17th-century maps of the Caribbean sugar colony of Suriname and their unusual depictions of nature
23.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map showing areas of London, Essex and Thames Estuary predicted to be below the annual flood level by 2050, as climate change progresses.
Screenshot of map showing areas of London & home counties predicted to be below annual flood level by 2050. This is a screenshot from a global map. You can investigate how flood risk is predicted to rise where you live via link below:
share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
#maritimehistory
12.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Sadly can’t make it but absolutely thrilled this is happening! Excited to see what new information can be extracted from these maps
12.02.2026 09:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research?
"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
Reviewing a book is one of the best and most fun service opportunities available! Check out the awesome books available from H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #envtech #conservation #sustainability #envjustice #ecocrit #envphil #plantstudies #animalstudies #nature
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Checks all my boxes—concepts of nature, travel writing, early modern maps featuring goats—excellent new article from Liz and Natalia!
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Nice to see that the Arctic Fever exhibition at the U of Toronto Fisher Rare Books library that I’m here in Canada for (opening event tonight) got coverage in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
#envhum #envhist #books
Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
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Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist
22.01.2026 12:13 — 👍 19 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”
by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!
20.01.2026 13:20 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me!
The audio version:
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography
1/2
It could be you
19.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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“Protecting Greenland's ice is the most important piece of national security and global security you can imagine. It's not critical minerals. It's not military strategy. It's keeping that ice frozen.” - Longtime climate researcher Paul Bierman.
Watch the rest: revkin.substack.com/p/tonight-me...
Early modern women writing in books! An online resource.
#earlymodern #Renaissance 🗃
Our first event in the new year will be a talk today by Stephan Pauleit (Strategic #Landscape Planning and Management, TUM) on “Transforming #Urban Landscapes: Why #GreenCities Are the Future.”
08.01.2026 09:08 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
WHOA! Elly Robson Dezateux’s Violent Waters @universitypress.cambridge.org is every bit as genius as I had assumed/hoped/dreamed. 🤩
Get this on all your reading lists, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...
New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And the extension pack, get more #EarlyModern #Skystorians. Collect them all. go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK
05.01.2026 20:18 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0May I join the pack?
06.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you Liesbeth, what an honour! Very excited to be joining the Dutch history community in London, for as long as you’ll have me!
06.01.2026 13:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was a pleasure to present my previous MA research into the physical and mapped waterways of Dutch colonial Cape Town as part of the Living with Water seminar series in May 2025. Big thank you to Sam, Giulia, Jack and Paola!
06.01.2026 11:21 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Master thread of all our recordings. Please watch (well, listen, most of these would also work as podcasts) and share!
23.12.2025 10:43 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Likewise Jack, so great to come back to all these thoughts now with some more perspective!
06.01.2026 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gister een draadje over Galileo, vandaag de polders.
Na mijn promotie in 2020 ben ik qua onderzoek best een andere weg ingeslagen. Met 2 beurzen kon ik 3 jaar naar het buitenland (Los Angeles en Cambridge) om daar nieuw onderzoek op te zetten, naar 17e eeuwse inpolderingsprojecten dus.
New OA article linking the timing of the Black Death's arrival in Europe to a volcanically induced climate downturn in 1345-1347 that brought famine & desperation among Italian city-states to import additional grain from Black Sea regions already impacted by plague: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
04.12.2025 16:38 — 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 4
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
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cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background
The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
