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Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
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It’s been a long time since I read ‘Voyage of the Narwhal’ and ‘Servants of the Map.’ Reading this makes me wonder if I should revisit them. lareviewofbooks.org/article/doub...

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CFP Edited Collection: "Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm" via H-HistGeog: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

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"Everest through the lens" - another chance to see the exhibition marking the centenary of the first Everest expeditions in the 1920s @rgsibg.bsky.social (20 Jan 2025 - 15 Apr 2025, Monday-Friday: 10.00am-5.00pm, free entry) www.rgs.org/events/upcom... [1/2]

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BBC News - Frozen in time: Rare early images of the Himalayas from Italian pioneer www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

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Borderland imaginaries. The Western literary imagination in the Tibetan borderlands. CHAPTER 5 - Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya. rb.gy/578vsf AUTHOR: @waymarks.bsky.social #Himalaya #Tibet #ShangriLa #HiddenLands

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China seeks to replace the globally recognized name #Tibet with #Xizang, blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... #China

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Although the promos undersell its broad content, Other Everests covers many more Everest-adjacent issues, including climate change, industrialization, visitors to the region, and nationalism. I highly recommend it, even if you don't care about Everest. suburbanmountaineer.com/2025/01/31/c...

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Okay, British historians: Other than Philip Murphy, what are some important works that take the Commonwealth seriously as a proposed future for the British Empire? I need some recommendations! #skystorians #britishempire

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Today in the ARB: @maxmorch.bsky.social reviews “Other Everests: one mountain, many worlds” (Manchester University Press) "Everest's role in the world is far more complex and diverse than being a mere backdrop for Western climbers" asianreviewofbooks.com/content/othe...

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Excited to see treasuryoflives.bsky.social on Bluesky! For anyone interested in Tibetan/Himalayan Studies, this is an indispensable resource. treasuryoflives.org

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I was intrigued by the new insight on Wanda Rutkiewicz’s success in the Himalayas. A lot of the discussions in other books on gender and climbing have also been repetitive about women filling nontraditional roles. 'Other Everests' was not... suburbanmountaineer.com/2025/01/31/c...

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Just back off holiday where this was one of my reads. Aims to broaden the scope of discussion around Everest and succeeds extremely well in this. So much of our conception of the world's highest mountain has become calcified by simple narratives to which this collection is a useful corrective.

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She complained that life in Hangzhou was stressful and competitive. “But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a #Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.” @jbher.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...

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Come speak at our workshop! Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall at the University of Derby from 19-20 June, Supported by the @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social Send us an abstract by 7 March - see the call for papers for more details. Please share widely!

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"The curatorial staff are not made up of pith-helmeted imperialists, as outsiders might imagine, but internal conversations about, say, decolonisation are not heard publicly, and staffers sometimes fear speaking out."

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When a mountain is a goddess. Ruth Gamble provides perhaps the definitive statement on the spiritual geography and ontological pluriverse of #Everest #Chomolungma #OtherEverests CHAPTER 1 - The immovable goddess: The long life of Miyo Lang Sangma. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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"They present to his mind a succession of events, each so vast as to be beyond his finite comprehension; ages of tranquillity, with lands and seas teeming with life ..." - G.A. Mantell, 'The Medals of Creation' (1844). 🗃️ 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

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Our new book Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds (Manchester University Press 2024) now Open Access/Free to Download #Chomolungma #Himalaya #Tibet #Nepal #India #IndigenousHistory #HighAltWork #Mountaineering www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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The arrival of the first Tibetan monks in Europe was surrounded with controversy, deeply straining Anglo-Tibetan relations. One group of monks, arriving in 1924, performed Buddhist rituals before showings of the silent film Epic of Everest, sparking the “Dancing Lamas” affair. /🧵 🗃️ 📜

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Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun. Mount Fuji (as seen about an hour ago) from the western suburbs of Tokyo.

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A review of Dawn Hollis's new book "Mountains Before Mountaineering." jeremybassetti.com/axis-mundi/2...

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"Precisely because they are so fickle, opportunistic and superficial in their attitude to speculation, historians seem to change popular theories often, treating them not as foundations to be built on, but as seasonal outfits to clothe the facts they have so assiduously gathered."

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