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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 12h

For the first Anthropocene Histories seminar of 2025-2026, we're talking about 'Cities' with Adrián Lerner (@adrianler.bsky.social) and Pollyanna Rhee (@parhee.bsky.social).

It'll be online on 29th October between 3-5pm GMT.

Open to all, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropoce...

Anthropocenes Histories: Cities

This seminar will discuss the topic of 'Cities and the Anthropocene' through research on Latin America and the U.S.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 8d

This sounds amazing - congrats!

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats to this year's Wolfson History Prize nominees

Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 8d

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · 15d

I'm looking forward to presenting some new work at the Oxford TORCH Enviro Humanities Research Hub on 4 December and discussing it with Danny Dorling. My talk will feature state planners, population anxieties, and photographs of smiling men in wheat fields

EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to announce our fall programme! Pleased to be hosting @brdemuth.bsky.social for our annual flagship lecture on Nov 6. We'll also welcome @andrewseaton.bsky.social and @dannydorling.bsky.social on Dec 4 for a discussion of Andrew's new work on coal. For more info, see the web link in our bio.

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is a huge blow to critical, independent research on the BBC. If you care about maintaining access to the archive of a major cultural institution, please read and sign.

Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

tinyurl.com

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National Theatre Bookshop @ntbookshop.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nye is back! 🩺💙📚

The bookshop would like to bring you a NEW display, NEW Nye playtext and NEW Welsh books.

To name a few:
Nye 2025 National Theatre Playtext by Tim Price
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton
Wales As Is by David Hurn

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jul 25

@tomkelsey.bsky.social - new Concorde content just dropped

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congrats, Nick! @npjgarland.bsky.social

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congrats to Izzy Conn and @ihr.bsky.social for their new 'Leading Labour' podcast which considers the histories of previous Labour leaders. I joined the cast for the first episode to discuss Clement Attlee:

open.spotify.com/episode/10wB...

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Leading Labour · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jul 7

For someone who isn't very good at abandoning books even if not enjoying them, the Salt Path revelations couldn't have arrived at a better time

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jun 5

Might have already been suggested, but Hazel Carby's 'Imperial Intimacies'

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jun 4

In fifteen minutes (3pm UK time) we have a session on histories of heating for the Anthropocene Histories seminar - details here if you'd like to join us on Zoom!:

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Anthropocene Histories seminar: Histories of Heating

In this Anthropocene Histories seminar Christopher Courtney (Durham) and Abigail Harrison Moore (Leeds) will present work from their own research on humidity and health in China and heating and women'...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · May 30

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks, John - that's too kind! I was reluctant to pick up another social media platform but here we are..

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 28

An upside: Having checked jobs.ac.uk pretty much daily during my six years on the job market and now not bothering because there's nothing on
there means I save about ten minutes every day #efficiency #productivity

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 19

This Wednesday, @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social have an online talk about the history of 'scarcity' - details and sign-up below:

Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 6

Another event on 21 May with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind and @robertsuits.bsky.social talking about scarcity. The details are below:

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Scarcity

www.ucl.ac.uk

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · May 12

@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social's next #Anthropocene histories seminar is this Weds online at 1500 GMT on oceans, fish, and marine economies – all welcome!

#envhum, #skyhistorians, #envhist, #oceans, #ecology, @uclhistory.bsky.social

UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · May 7

📣The great economization of the Ocean: Following cod & doing empirical economy

📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/hiDmV

Our speakers discuss how the ocean has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment & innovation.

Join this Anthropocene Histories seminar!

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 6

Full list of past and future events for 2024/2025 academic year here:

Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 6

Another event on 21 May with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind and @robertsuits.bsky.social talking about scarcity. The details are below:

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Scarcity

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · May 6

We have a great talk coming up on 14 May for the Anthropocene Histories seminar about the economisation of the ocean with Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse, Tamara Fernando and Sophie Page. It's free and online, all welcome. Sign up below.

UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊

📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · Apr 26

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

www.newstatesman.com

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks, Helen - appreciate you sharing

Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks, Lise

Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks, John - appreciate that

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · Apr 26

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

www.newstatesman.com

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