‘This kind of exposure to other scholars’ real, living work was an essential reminder that the bounds of academic curiosity and innovation do not end with a coursework deadline or at the library or seminar room door.'

Over the summer, recent History graduate Owen Chennetier attended the…

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I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.

Bristol historians all dressed up for graduation. It’s an absolute highlight of the year getting to celebrate the many achievements of our history students!

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):

'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

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It primarily argues that taxidermy can tell us lots of cool stuff about time: the Western desire to ‘freeze’ nature, as relating to visions of progress, and the material processes of decay, aging and recycling that disrupt those imaginaries

The book tracks animal specimens (with a focus on skins) from British colonial hunting grounds, through transportation networks, via taxidermy studios and exhibitions to museums. It explores how - even when produced within systems of violence- skins remained ecosystems…

I’ve been sitting on this one for a good while, but I’m chuffed that my book ‘Skinning Empire: Environment, Embodiment and Time in British Taxidermy History’ will be published with OUP. Probably out next year! 🐅

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨
There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨

‘A central aim of the project is to explore the opportunities, barriers, and conditions that affected self-employed women in the past, but to also think about what this can tell us about women’s working lives in the present…

I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!

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Whoohoo so great to see it out in the world with great collaborators @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social Elaine LaFay #envhum #envhist #foodstudies #sensorystudies

We had a great time with our EH MA students at Windmill Hill City Farm exploring creative responses to animals with @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @alicewould.bsky.social There were kennings, cute kids (of the goat variety), ambiguous becomings, and plenty of biological exuberance.

My new article "Oceanic Pasts, Planetary Futures: Deep-Sea Core Data and Temporal Negotiation in the CLIMAP Project (1971–1982)" is out now with Time & Society. Available OA here:

How has the natural world shaped the past, and how might we include it in the histories that we research, write and tell?

Find out today at the History Showcase with @alicewould.bsky.social, 1pm Arts Complex, LT3

My amazing book cover is here!
Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

There are moles and bats! Echo Worlds by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social in our special issue The Senses and The Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... co-edited by @gfitz.bsky.social #animalhist #envhist #envhum #skystorians

Our new special issue on The Senes and the Environment is out!!!🥳🥳🥳 save for the introduction which will be in the print version in June 2025. Such great articles by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social and thanks to our co-editor @gfitz.bsky.social

Andrew Flack and Alice Would on ‘Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations’, here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist

please note that while we do everything in our power to make everyone feel welcome in our galleries and spaces, we are unable to guarantee admission to the Nazgûl or any associate of the Nine

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