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Very excited to have my first article published! It's about why British mountaineers travelled to Norway in the nineteenth century and the transnational networks they formed. Open access in Studies in Travel Writing here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏔️

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‘(...) It not only illuminates a critical historical event but also underscores the significance of disaster history to inform future policies and strategies for disaster preparedness and response.' By Vipul Singh, in Environment and History Publisher's update: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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I usually love the German combination words, but I have to say "cringe quake" is absolutely perfect

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Just finished the latest by @quinnslobodian.com. Offers a lot of historical clarity on the right-libertarian/neoliberal to hard right pipeline that's been broadly speculated on. The chapters on IQ and race...

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Graduate students - apply! Global China Summer School 2025: China in Circuits of Global Extractivism 16-19 June, 2025 Lund University www.ace.lu.se/activities/g...

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Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

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Coming soon with @manchesterup.bsky.social

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 190 of The Continent The world order is disintegrating. Whose interests will the African Union serve now? Read it here: bit.ly/TC190

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It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Looking forward to the forthcoming publication! @lnuccon.bsky.social

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There has been some conversation re: what to do about the #SHARP conference, given that it is in the US this year. This is my email to the conference organizers asking them to transition to hybrid. Full text is in the alt text if you want to copy to use some or all of the email for yourself.

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Inspiring and in these days of escalating violent politics a soothing teaching resource on the global histories of nonviolent protests: thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu

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Applies to Sweden and many universities in Europe, succinctly penned:

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The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

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"There has been very little work on the environmental history of Black communities in Canada." - John Sandlos (2020) What new Black Canadian #envhist has come out in the past 4.5 years? niche-canada.org/2020/09/30/c... #cdnhist #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

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Everyone is welcome to join lectures and discussions in our centre's seminar series this spring! #Postcolonial Sign-up link: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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My introduction to a forum on university 'truth telling' in @historyaustralia.bsky.social, now online, open access. Worth reading the multiple contributions. Especially as US and other universities cowardly withdraw from any truth telling... #history #histstm #sts @humanitiesau.bsky.social

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Today "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" is officially coming out. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos - ‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Books to read, esp in view of US showdown: Colonialism and Antarctica Attitudes, logics, and Practices, eds. Roberts & Mancilla, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170637/ The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal, by Flores-Villalobos www.pennpress.org/978151282363...

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Nayana Jhaveri and the Jhaveri sisters: An embodied archive Between remembering and forgetting, the Jhaveri sisters’ dynamic body of work spans decades of dance history. How might it be best archived?

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One of the keynotes - Jacob Orrje - and the panel with presentations on colonial digitized archives from the digital history conference we organised last year! Many thanks to Dariah @dariaheu.bsky.social for the brilliant layout and having us on Campus! #DigHis #globalhis #colonialhistory

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Continuing my exploration of photos meant for research and these two adorable fluffy #furballs were in the company of cotton fiber drawings and plantation workers in a photo collection at the UK National Archives:

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We are looking for a Manuscript Metadata officer. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 7 months. Come and join us! vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/648201

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When you have prepared the courses for next semester and can return to looking at images for your next talk on infrastructure and the environment: 📷 J.C. Townshend, 1890s: [Bengal-Nagpur Railway Construction, Photograph No. 16] digitized by SMU Libraries.

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1 PhD position (3 years) in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall” at the German #mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources w Tina Asmussen #envhist 👇 karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2...

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#AfS: Benedikt Sepp bespricht das Buch "Alternative Dänemark" von Detlef Siegfried über den linken "Sehnsuchtsraum Skandinavien" und lobt die "exzellente Darstellung", die das Potenzial weiterer Betrachtungen vom Reiz der Nachbarländer eröffne: library.fes.de/pdf-f...

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New book alert 🚨—And a great holiday gift: Humans: A Monstrous History by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social “A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.” www.ucpress.edu/books/humans...

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Please share! Five fully funded PhD positions now available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo! Application deadline: February 24.

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I'm honoured to have my book reviewed (and very generously so!) by Vipul Singh (University of Delhi & Rachel Carson Center) in Environment and History @eandhwhp.bsky.social and that too in the 30th anniversary edition! #envhist liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/cu...

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A blog post by Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social on voluntarism, humanitarianism and relief - an insightful glimpse into her forthcoming book which I very much look forward to reading!

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Today, 12 Dec, 13:30 (CET) 🔜

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A PhD position in Norway is a salaried job, & you are a colleague instead of a student.

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Smart and inspiring resource for educators and researchers - Mapping Saints - recently launched by my colleague @ellisnilsson.bsky.social and team! #history #DigHum #DigHis

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Requested for next semester's Public History unit.

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Join us next week for a lecture with Gaurav C. Garg (Ashoka University): "Claiming Mt. Everest: How early postcolonial Indians saw themselves, the empire, and the world." Register for online attendance (Zoom): lnu.se/mot-linneuni... @lnuccon.bsky.social

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Varför är kvarnar intressanta? Jo, för spannmål var det absolut viktigaste födoämnet under förindustriell tid, och säd behövde malas för att kunna konsumeras. Kvarnen var därför livsviktig. Men kvarnar var också en politisk stridsfråga:

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This is the good stuff. www.newberry.org/calendar/eme...

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Thank you for sharing @drtermagant.bsky.social! For anyone interested here is a very nice recent review in Environment and History by Vipul Singh as well as the link to the book in open access: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.... Acts of Aid: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Usual caveats apply go.bsky.app/Gaka15u

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Thanks to @lnuccon.bsky.social for the generosity that made this short visit to the #SwedishNationalArchives at #Vadstena and #Jönköping possible. Working with the #Swedish documents on #SouthAsia within a #global scope was a wonderful experience indeed! @eleonormarcus.bsky.social @gnnl.bsky.social

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A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

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Last protest encampment gone. University of Gothenburg this morning. #Palestine

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Läsvärt debattinlägg av Cecilia Verdinelli om vad som står på spel när Gazaplatsen ska rivas. www.gp.se/kultur/komme...

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