Christian Drury
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
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Christian Drury
@cjdrury.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Excited to see this chapter in print - it's about British travellers in Jotunheimen, travel infrastructure and the idea of remoteness: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
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📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
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At the moment, you can visit the exhibition "Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans" at Maiden Castle! ⚽
Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣
Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At the moment, you can visit the exhibition "Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans" at Maiden Castle! ⚽
Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣
Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣
A wintery Durham from the train ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A wintery Durham from the train ❄️
Some of the installations at Lumiere in Durham. A botanical feel this year - rhizomes, flowers and harvests 🍄
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Some of the installations at Lumiere in Durham. A botanical feel this year - rhizomes, flowers and harvests 🍄
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Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
Rowers on the Wear this morning
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Rowers on the Wear this morning
Autumn in Teesdale 🍂
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Autumn in Teesdale 🍂
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Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
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This looks fascinating, seems like an interesting outgrowth of the sort of 'industrial' nineteenth-century tourism that made mines into tourist destinations. Or, indeed, tea/coffee/etc plantations in Southeast Asia, as I discuss in my book.
This new piece by @hornseyhq.bsky.social in Modern British Studies looks fascinating: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production.
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This looks fascinating, seems like an interesting outgrowth of the sort of 'industrial' nineteenth-century tourism that made mines into tourist destinations. Or, indeed, tea/coffee/etc plantations in Southeast Asia, as I discuss in my book.
Some autumn woodland colours 🍂
October 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Some autumn woodland colours 🍂
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The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸
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We're thrilled to be taking part in Norsk Tinde Klubbe's Slingsby Week next July.
The event celebrates British climber W C Slingsby's contributions to Norwegian mountaineering & coincides with the 150th anniversary of his ascent of Storen.
Members can register here ➡️ alpineclub.org/event/slings...
The event celebrates British climber W C Slingsby's contributions to Norwegian mountaineering & coincides with the 150th anniversary of his ascent of Storen.
Members can register here ➡️ alpineclub.org/event/slings...
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We're thrilled to be taking part in Norsk Tinde Klubbe's Slingsby Week next July.
The event celebrates British climber W C Slingsby's contributions to Norwegian mountaineering & coincides with the 150th anniversary of his ascent of Storen.
Members can register here ➡️ alpineclub.org/event/slings...
The event celebrates British climber W C Slingsby's contributions to Norwegian mountaineering & coincides with the 150th anniversary of his ascent of Storen.
Members can register here ➡️ alpineclub.org/event/slings...
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I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.
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#CFP: "Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice" (May 11-12, 2026, Switzerland).
Deadline: 31.10.2025
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#envhist #envhum #hstm #ecolit
Deadline: 31.10.2025
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#envhist #envhum #hstm #ecolit
CfP conference: Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice | H-Net
Call for conference papersCold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain iceDate: 11-12.05.2026Venue: University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandOrganisers: Christine Bichsel (University ...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”.
This would mean the death of research.
This would mean the death of research.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”.
This would mean the death of research.
This would mean the death of research.
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Bluesky historians - I have a student that has made a transcription of 'The Arctic Moon' a short-lived hand-written polar newspaper from 1881 housed in the National Archive. She'd like to share it or to archive it. Any suggestions?
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Bluesky historians - I have a student that has made a transcription of 'The Arctic Moon' a short-lived hand-written polar newspaper from 1881 housed in the National Archive. She'd like to share it or to archive it. Any suggestions?
Kvikk Lunsj on the BBC! I like how this article traces changing ideas of nature and recreation through what people ate outside: www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
The controversial sweet that fuels Norwegians
Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor adventures for generations. So, what makes this chocolate so controversial?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Kvikk Lunsj on the BBC! I like how this article traces changing ideas of nature and recreation through what people ate outside: www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
Excited to see this chapter in print - it's about British travellers in Jotunheimen, travel infrastructure and the idea of remoteness: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Excited to see this chapter in print - it's about British travellers in Jotunheimen, travel infrastructure and the idea of remoteness: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
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Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.
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The centre-left bloc has won the Norwegian parliamentary election. I am temporarily relieved. We have a lot of work to do in the years ahead, but this could have gone so, so much worse.
September 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The centre-left bloc has won the Norwegian parliamentary election. I am temporarily relieved. We have a lot of work to do in the years ahead, but this could have gone so, so much worse.
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Having decided I want my public scholarship to be properly public, rather than behind a paywall, I've decided to make everything I've written for my newsletter - going back over two years - free to read for the foreseeable future.
The Academic Bubble | Dion Georgiou | Substack
Politics and culture from a contemporary historian‘s perspective. Click to read The Academic Bubble, by Dion Georgiou, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Having decided I want my public scholarship to be properly public, rather than behind a paywall, I've decided to make everything I've written for my newsletter - going back over two years - free to read for the foreseeable future.
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway."
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.
September 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway."
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.