Dr Andy Flack

Four watercolour illustrations of black cats with bat wings.

In a world of regular cats, be a bat cat

🎨 Maggie Vandewalle

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 🎭

This is happening today - and here is the link: tinyurl.com/48t8a8dx. Do join us at 4pm!

If you'd like Zoom details so you can join the fun, please do contact me!

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'

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!

www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!

#envhist #senses #animalhistory

Hsuan Hsu (UC Davis) will be giving an online talk (for Bristol's 'Senses and Sensations' Research Group) on 'Olfactory Worldmaking' tomorrow at 4pm BST. To register, follow this link: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Dark Pasts: Research-rich teaching in History The Practice  Over the past several academic years, I have taught a Final Year History undergraduate unit drawn directly from my own innovative research into the history of night-time in the modern…

‘Along the way, students encounter the supernatural, nocturnal animals, lighting technologies, blackouts, gendered violence…’
Fancy learning more about the history of darkness? Have a read of @drandyflack.bsky.social new blog about his third year unit ‘Dark Pasts’ bilt.online/dark-pasts-r...

‘there are a number of things that happen around the middle of the twentieth century that together have a fundamental impact on the way people see the world...’ have a listen to our very own @drandyflack.bsky.social

Picture of Alice Would and Andy Flack's article in our special issue of Environment & History. Echo Worlds bats and moles!!!

There are moles and bats! Echo Worlds by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social in our special issue The Senses and The Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... co-edited by @gfitz.bsky.social #animalhist #envhist #envhum #skystorians

Our new special issue on The Senes and the Environment is out!!!🥳🥳🥳 save for the introduction which will be in the print version in June 2025. Such great articles by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social and thanks to our co-editor @gfitz.bsky.social

“It’s time to think about ability as well as disability. To properly understand what ability means we need to look beyond the human, too.”

historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/891 🗃️

@uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobrisceh.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social

Published alongside a wonderful article from @drandyflack.bsky.social and Alice Would on sensory scientific investigations and to be followed by further articles on the senses!

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New blog post by @drandyflack.bsky.social to mark Disability History Month. Andy argues for the need for historians to think about ability, and to consider a more-than-human context. With Alice Would he recently published on this topic in History and Theory historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🦇🦉

@cabot-institute.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

Excited to finally have this article @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social see the light of day (!). Here, Alice Would and I examine the historical roots of the idea of 'ability' by thinking with dark-dwelling animals, disability studies, and environmental history: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

We are in the process of trying to secure funds for this! Watch this space

Check out our very own Andy Flack’s musings on bats

Listening to Graveyard Bats at Halloween This programme is all about deep listening in nature. Specifically listening to the bats near an old railway line that runs between Bristol and Bath. Caleb Parkin (Poet), Bruce Guthrie (Counsellor a

Its Halloween so here's a treat: a documentary - Listening to Graveyard Bats - that I recently recorded with Caleb Parkin, Kathy Hinde and Bruce Guthrie for Avonside Studios. Spooky...
soundcloud.com/bruce-guthri... #animalhistory #envhist #wildlife #halloween

The University of Bristol's Environmental Humanities summer school for undergrads is running in summer 2025. Please do send on your students! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... Includes a short film featuring me and fellow environmental historian, Alice Would.

I'm also happy to support post-doc proposals/funding (e.g. Marie-Curie) applications in this area + animal history + sensory studies.

Here's a fun postgrad opportunity to work with me on 'dark things' at Bristol. Please circulate! www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/postgr...

Returning to the draft book intro today to take stock… so many dark feet and dark wings well on their way…

Hehe thanks Ellen. You mean the chimpanzee? Or the Other Thing?

Aha! Thank goodness… I was worried haha

Mysterious… why are so many people following me today? I hope I’ve not become infamous….