Barbara Brayshay
@bbrayshay.bsky.social
Works at Royal Holloway University of London; Oral History of the UK Environmental Movement (OHEM) rhul.ac.uk/ohem
A Director and Editor at Living Maps livingmaps.org.uk
Sings with the Climate Choir- Dances to electro-beats
Loves Yoga
A Director and Editor at Living Maps livingmaps.org.uk
Sings with the Climate Choir- Dances to electro-beats
Loves Yoga
Reposted by Barbara Brayshay
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
📢📢Two Tickets for sale for Wet Leg gig tonight in Liverpool!!
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Wet Leg tickets | Buy & sell on TicketSwap
Buy & sell tickets for Wet Leg | Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool | Today, 7:00 PM. Find fair, safe and secure tickets on TicketSwap's marketplace.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📢📢Two Tickets for sale for Wet Leg gig tonight in Liverpool!!
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill - without Amendment 130, the system presented in this new Bill will lead to the removal of protections for sensitive habitats and species. Nature needs us to keep fighting. Make your voice heard!! 👇
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Email your MP. Amendment 130 would make sure the new planning systems works for, not against nature.demand they keep amendment 130 in the Bill
It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.
action.wildlifetrusts.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Planning and Infrastructure Bill - without Amendment 130, the system presented in this new Bill will lead to the removal of protections for sensitive habitats and species. Nature needs us to keep fighting. Make your voice heard!! 👇
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Planning and Infrastructure Bill update
Labour voted down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic protections for endangered species. The @greenparty.org.uk have my vote from today!
Now it goes back to the House of Lords
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Labour voted down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic protections for endangered species. The @greenparty.org.uk have my vote from today!
Now it goes back to the House of Lords
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Planning and Infrastructure Bill update
Labour voted down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic protections for endangered species. The @greenparty.org.uk have my vote from today!
Now it goes back to the House of Lords
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Labour voted down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic protections for endangered species. The @greenparty.org.uk have my vote from today!
Now it goes back to the House of Lords
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Delighted to share this recent publication, I was privileged to co-author with Felix Driver and Toby Butler, where we explore the issues and challenges involved in creating an activist archive to represent one of the most significant social movements of our times
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Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive
Abstract. This article considers the making of an archive of environmental activism through the life histories of 100 campaigners involved in environmental
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November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Delighted to share this recent publication, I was privileged to co-author with Felix Driver and Toby Butler, where we explore the issues and challenges involved in creating an activist archive to represent one of the most significant social movements of our times
academic.oup.com/hwj/article-...
academic.oup.com/hwj/article-...
📢📢@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us for the 2nd in our Autumn Seminar Series on 21st November. Tracey Benson will explore local understandings of water and flood management in SE Queensland and how transdisciplinary approaches can support community resilience
booking via the link below👇
booking via the link below👇
Mapping resilience: Supporting water knowledge networks - Tracey Benson
Join us to explore local understandings of water and flood management in south east Queensland and beyond
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November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📢📢@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us for the 2nd in our Autumn Seminar Series on 21st November. Tracey Benson will explore local understandings of water and flood management in SE Queensland and how transdisciplinary approaches can support community resilience
booking via the link below👇
booking via the link below👇
Reposted by Barbara Brayshay
Well it's an interesting media world when you have to resign for speaking the truth.
And the bastion of integrity that you have on your news show to provide 'expert comment' on the situation is Kelvin MacKenzie.
And the bastion of integrity that you have on your news show to provide 'expert comment' on the situation is Kelvin MacKenzie.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Well it's an interesting media world when you have to resign for speaking the truth.
And the bastion of integrity that you have on your news show to provide 'expert comment' on the situation is Kelvin MacKenzie.
And the bastion of integrity that you have on your news show to provide 'expert comment' on the situation is Kelvin MacKenzie.
Supporters gathered for Marcus Decker this morning, after serving one of the longest jail sentences ever for NVDA he now faces the possibility of becoming the first person ever to be deported from this country for peaceful protest.
#NVDA #climateprotest #climatejustice #rightToProtest
#NVDA #climateprotest #climatejustice #rightToProtest
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Supporters gathered for Marcus Decker this morning, after serving one of the longest jail sentences ever for NVDA he now faces the possibility of becoming the first person ever to be deported from this country for peaceful protest.
#NVDA #climateprotest #climatejustice #rightToProtest
#NVDA #climateprotest #climatejustice #rightToProtest
Reposted by Barbara Brayshay
Marcus is the very best of us and has served his time in jail - he should not become the first person ever deported from this country for peaceful protest
Jailed climate activist facing deportation from UK fights ‘crazy double punishment’
Marcus Decker is supported by climate experts, religious leaders and celebrities as he fights being first person in UK to be ‘deported for peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Marcus is the very best of us and has served his time in jail - he should not become the first person ever deported from this country for peaceful protest
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
@livingmaps.bsky.social Director @mikeduggan4.bsky.social explores the map worlds of Ursula le Guin on display in this fascinating exhibition at the AA Gallery, 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES until December 6th
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@livingmaps.bsky.social Director @mikeduggan4.bsky.social explores the map worlds of Ursula le Guin on display in this fascinating exhibition at the AA Gallery, 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES until December 6th
Not a good news day ...
Trump administration approves plan to open Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling
www.independent.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Not a good news day ...
Now at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social checking it out for @livingmaps.bsky.social
#maps #secretmaps
#maps #secretmaps
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Now at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social checking it out for @livingmaps.bsky.social
#maps #secretmaps
#maps #secretmaps
📢📢Reminder!!
Just under a week to go to the first event in Online Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, with Anne-Laure Fréant on 29th October, we will discover how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
Link to book your ticket below 👇 👇
#mapping #flooding #EnvironmentalHistory
Just under a week to go to the first event in Online Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, with Anne-Laure Fréant on 29th October, we will discover how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
Link to book your ticket below 👇 👇
#mapping #flooding #EnvironmentalHistory
The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant
Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
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October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📢📢Reminder!!
Just under a week to go to the first event in Online Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, with Anne-Laure Fréant on 29th October, we will discover how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
Link to book your ticket below 👇 👇
#mapping #flooding #EnvironmentalHistory
Just under a week to go to the first event in Online Autumn 2025 Seminar Series, Mapping Fluid Worlds, with Anne-Laure Fréant on 29th October, we will discover how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history
Link to book your ticket below 👇 👇
#mapping #flooding #EnvironmentalHistory
Please sign and support this @wen-uk.bsky.social (Women's Environmental Network) campaign for chemical-free period products - this is not a niche issue - half the people on the planet are women who menstruate!!
www.wen.org.uk/toxicfreeper...
www.wen.org.uk/toxicfreeper...
Toxic Free Periods Petition
Join 30,000+ people who have signed the #ToxicFreePeriodsPetition to get toxic chemicals out of period products.
www.wen.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Please sign and support this @wen-uk.bsky.social (Women's Environmental Network) campaign for chemical-free period products - this is not a niche issue - half the people on the planet are women who menstruate!!
www.wen.org.uk/toxicfreeper...
www.wen.org.uk/toxicfreeper...
Reposted by Barbara Brayshay
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
📢📢 Date for the Diary: 15th November Mass Mobilisation for COP30 in London! Sign up now for more information!
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groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/resources/ho...
How to take action at COP 30 | Local action
This guide will explain how you can take bold action during COP this autumn.
groups.friendsoftheearth.uk
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
📢📢 Date for the Diary: 15th November Mass Mobilisation for COP30 in London! Sign up now for more information!
groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/resources/ho...
groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/resources/ho...
📢 📢 Join us for Voices for Change: Stories from the UK Environmental Movement. Launch event at the British Library on Thursday, 23rd October. An archive of 100 life stories with leading environmentalists and unsung voices!
Tickets are going fast, so grab one now!
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Tickets are going fast, so grab one now!
events.bl.uk/events/voice...
Voices for Change: Stories from the Environmental Movement | British Library
Leaders of Greenpeace UK, Friends of the Earth, Natural England and the Green Party on 50 years of action.
events.bl.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📢 📢 Join us for Voices for Change: Stories from the UK Environmental Movement. Launch event at the British Library on Thursday, 23rd October. An archive of 100 life stories with leading environmentalists and unsung voices!
Tickets are going fast, so grab one now!
events.bl.uk/events/voice...
Tickets are going fast, so grab one now!
events.bl.uk/events/voice...
📢📢 Come down to see the show: Resistance Exhibition Saturday 25th October 12-9pm
From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 4o years of UK protest history.
The Warehouse, Scarab Close, Thames Wharf, Dock Road, London, E16 1FB 👇👇
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From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 4o years of UK protest history.
The Warehouse, Scarab Close, Thames Wharf, Dock Road, London, E16 1FB 👇👇
www.instagram.com/notheretobel...
Not here to be liked on Instagram: "Resistance Exhibition
Saturday 25th October 12-9pm
From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 40 years years of protest history in the...
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Saturday 25th October 12-9pm
From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 40 years years...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
📢📢 Come down to see the show: Resistance Exhibition Saturday 25th October 12-9pm
From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 4o years of UK protest history.
The Warehouse, Scarab Close, Thames Wharf, Dock Road, London, E16 1FB 👇👇
www.instagram.com/notheretobel...
From the tunnels to the treetops, rare footage and artefacts from over 4o years of UK protest history.
The Warehouse, Scarab Close, Thames Wharf, Dock Road, London, E16 1FB 👇👇
www.instagram.com/notheretobel...
📢 📢 Can you help the Wen (Women's Environmental Network) and Pesticide Action Network UK petition reach 50,000 signatures before they take it to Government next Wednesday during #EnvironmenstrualWeek. A collective call for change: safe period products for all. Link to the petition below 👇 👇
Our #ToxicFreePeriodsPetition is going viral! 44,000+ signatures and counting - that’s 10,000 more in just 24 hours! 🎉
We’ve smashed our 40K goal, but we want to reach 50K before handing it to Government during #EnvironmenstrualWeek.
Please sign & share 👉wen.org.uk/toxicfreeperiodspetition
We’ve smashed our 40K goal, but we want to reach 50K before handing it to Government during #EnvironmenstrualWeek.
Please sign & share 👉wen.org.uk/toxicfreeperiodspetition
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📢 📢 Can you help the Wen (Women's Environmental Network) and Pesticide Action Network UK petition reach 50,000 signatures before they take it to Government next Wednesday during #EnvironmenstrualWeek. A collective call for change: safe period products for all. Link to the petition below 👇 👇
As if we didn't know from the start! - some Brexit facts and figures
⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you.
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
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www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...
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www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact
The Cost of Brexit
Change Minds → Change Politics
www.bestforbritain.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
As if we didn't know from the start! - some Brexit facts and figures
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In which I get to talk about the brave and brilliant Rachel Carson on the terrific podcast, Kindred. If you wonder if a single steadfast person can make a difference, she is a shining example. #environment #courage
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring | With Deborah Blum, Science Journalist
In this week’s episode, we are speaking with Deborah Blum, environmental journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and science columnist. Let me explain why…
www.kindredpodcast.co
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In which I get to talk about the brave and brilliant Rachel Carson on the terrific podcast, Kindred. If you wonder if a single steadfast person can make a difference, she is a shining example. #environment #courage
The sun shone brightly for Diwali London, celebrating light overcoming darkness and the beauty of our diversity❤️
This is what one of the biggest Diwali celebrations outside of India looks like.
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate light overcoming darkness, hope overcoming hardship, and unity in our diversity.
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate light overcoming darkness, hope overcoming hardship, and unity in our diversity.
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The sun shone brightly for Diwali London, celebrating light overcoming darkness and the beauty of our diversity❤️