Dr Lena Ferriday
@lenaferriday.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment @ King's College London.
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
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🗣️ A rally is taking place TOMORROW Wednesday 26 Nov at 3pm outside KCL’s Strand building in solidarity with KCL student Usama Ghanem who fled persecution on Egypt and is now facing deportation after having his visa revoked by the College for his Palestine solidarity. Please join!
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🗣️ A rally is taking place TOMORROW Wednesday 26 Nov at 3pm outside KCL’s Strand building in solidarity with KCL student Usama Ghanem who fled persecution on Egypt and is now facing deportation after having his visa revoked by the College for his Palestine solidarity. Please join!
A fab opportunity!!!
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A fab opportunity!!!
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
Getting Emotional About History? A Panel Discussion | King's College London
Want to learn more about what studying emotions in the past entails? Interested in how historians manage their own emotional relationships with their source material?
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
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⏰ Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds consultation closes on Tuesday 25th. If you care about this, please complete the survey and say that the current arrangements work well.
Have your say on Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds
We’re consulting on future access at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds to ensure arrangements remain fair, lawful & respectful.
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
⏰ Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds consultation closes on Tuesday 25th. If you care about this, please complete the survey and say that the current arrangements work well.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.
Cambridge people! I'll be speaking at the HPS Anthropocene seminar tomorrow lunchtime (1-2pm), on proximity, 'meetings' and embodied knowledge in spaces of extraction.
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Anthropocene | Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The Anthropocene (climate histories) seminar offers sessions in the related fields of climate history and Anthropocene studies. Meetings are held on Thursdays at 1pm–2pm in Seminar Room 2. All are wel...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Cambridge people! I'll be speaking at the HPS Anthropocene seminar tomorrow lunchtime (1-2pm), on proximity, 'meetings' and embodied knowledge in spaces of extraction.
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
materiality and museum extraction | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Funded by Brigstow Institute’s Seedcorn, these partnerships evolved during the Personal to Planetary Fellowship programme.
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
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The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Anyone listening to Chris Philp’s Today interview, predicated on the premise knife crime is rising, might like to read my piece from yesterday setting out the more nuanced reality: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
Train stabbing fuels UK public’s feeling of insecurity
Cambridgeshire attack is second mass knife crime incident in less than a week
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Anyone listening to Chris Philp’s Today interview, predicated on the premise knife crime is rising, might like to read my piece from yesterday setting out the more nuanced reality: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT
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Many AI data centers are state & federally permitted, theoretically held to pollution standards so as not to overburden communities. The data tell a different story: Those living near these centers face higher air pollution, especially communities of color. envirodatagov.org/blogs/commun...
Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Data centers are booming right now due to climbing demand for generative AI, […]
envirodatagov.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Many AI data centers are state & federally permitted, theoretically held to pollution standards so as not to overburden communities. The data tell a different story: Those living near these centers face higher air pollution, especially communities of color. envirodatagov.org/blogs/commun...
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In today's Guardian I spoke about the need for the Home Office to be broken up to ensure migrants are dealt with by a department designed to make the system work rather than simply projecting a hardline stance to the public.
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In today's Guardian I spoke about the need for the Home Office to be broken up to ensure migrants are dealt with by a department designed to make the system work rather than simply projecting a hardline stance to the public.
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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Thai villagers are not giving up on saving their homes from coastal erosion.
Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising sea levels – life on the climate-change frontline
Thai villagers are not giving up on saving their homes from coastal erosion.
tcnv.link
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Thai villagers are not giving up on saving their homes from coastal erosion.
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Don’t cross a picket line, folks. I know it’s super difficult and inconvenient so let’s hopes resolution can be agreed and planned action called off
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Don’t cross a picket line, folks. I know it’s super difficult and inconvenient so let’s hopes resolution can be agreed and planned action called off
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2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!!
The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.
Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.
Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!!
The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.
Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper.
Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
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It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It's Electric Wind publication day!💨
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.
Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.
Electric Wind is out now💡
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Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.
The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent
Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.
tcnv.link
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.
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📜 On this day in 1820, John Harris FRHS - miner, poet and proud Cornishman - was born at Bolenowe Carn, near Camborne.
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📜 On this day in 1820, John Harris FRHS - miner, poet and proud Cornishman - was born at Bolenowe Carn, near Camborne.
It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712
October 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It was a pleasure to review this wonderful collection for the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Thanks to all the authors for their contributions and to @finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social for drawing such an interesting group of scholars together!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55712