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Alnwick Area Friends of the Earth @alnwickfoe.bsky.social · 12d

Northumberland Wildlife Trust are appealing for donations to save the Rothbury Estate, a breathtaking mix of moorland, woodland, rivers, and farmland. Until 30 September, whatever you give will be doubled, up to £100,000. You can find out more and donate at www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Rothbury Estate Match Appeal | The Wildlife Trusts

In the heart of Northumberland, a rare, wild and historic 3,800-hectare estate is at risk of being sold off and lost for nature. Until 30 September 2025, your gift will be doubled to help save it, up ...

www.wildlifetrusts.org

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 16d

My travel plans for the week reveal one way British English is clearer than American English:

American: I'm going to Sheffield Wednesday!

British: I'm going to Sheffield on Wednesday.

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Alnwick Area Friends of the Earth @alnwickfoe.bsky.social · 18d

We're teaming up with Alnwick Playhouse to present Christo Waller's film Leaving it Better, a compelling story of what happened when environmentalists met with Teesdale farmers. Join us on Tuesday 7 October, 7.30pm. Admission FREE! More information and book at alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/event/leavin...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 19d

ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment

29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT

Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford)

Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 25d

📣Did you know that ASLE-UKI members are entitled to a 30% discount via Taylor and Francis? You can access this on our website: asle.org.uk/green-letters/

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor

For details, please visit
asle.org.uk/green-letter...

Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor | ASLE-UKI

asle.org.uk

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 24d

Just had a grand day out in #Coldstream - first at the museum (sadly at risk of closure) with a fascinating exhibit on the Coldstream Guards, then the Guards Monument overlooking the Tweed, and finally tea and a walk round the lake at the Hirsel, home of the Douglas-Home family.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 25d

Here’s a lovely rainbow visible from my back garden in #Alnwick this evening, although as usual the crock of gold appears to have landed in the castle rather than the town centre.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’ve been at High Hauxley on this rather grey day today where at 3pm sharp every birder, and every bird, was startled by the emergency phone alert test. But saw my first snipe, ruff, pochard, shoveler, and goosander of the year, and my first ever wood sandpiper. Success!

Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm very excited to learn that my book The Unnatural Trade is one of the final seven candidates for the 2025 Society for the History of Natural History Book Prize (The Thackray Medal). My thanks to the @sochistnathist.bsky.social readers! You can see the full list at >> shnh.org.uk/news/announc...

Announcing the SHNH Natural History Book Prize (Thackray Medal) longlist - Society for the History of Natural History

The Redouté brothers: Masters of scientific illustration in Paris Hans Walter Lack, James A. Compton & Martin W. Callmander. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. 2024. 822pp. ISBN 978-2-38327-020-1. ...

shnh.org.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 1

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Carey’s razor-sharp key insight is that C18th abolitionism engaged as much with emerging environmental and life sciences as with the moral philosophy with which it has long been associated" - Monique Allewaert reviews The Unnatural Trade in the William & Mary Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/275/arti...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 22

I was at Kilkenny Castle today with @rosiepaice.bsky.social and Páraic Finnerty. It has many C17th and C18th portraits of the Butler family - Dukes of Ormande - their family, and English royals. If you’re after Stuart monarchs, come here, but if it’s Hanoverians you’re after, try elsewhere.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 20

I visited the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, today with @cobrunstrom.bsky.social and @rosiepaice.bsky.social This ancient site has prehistoric burial sites, ancient carvings, the Irish Stone of Destiny, and fabulous views over most of central Ireland. As recommended by generations of high kings!

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 17

Despite Seamus Heaney’s warning, I did park along the Flaggy Shore and try to capture the slate-grey lake full of swans, the glittering sea, somewhat less wild on an August evening, and the flagstones full of fossil corals like ghostly ferns pressed into the limestone.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE-UKI) conference in Galway is concluding with novelist Lisa McInerney reading from her Cork novels and in conversation with Patrick Lonergan. A fabulous end to a fantastic conference! @asleuki.bsky.social

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 13

In the cavernous lecture hall at the @asleuki conference in Galway, John Brannigan is giving his keynote talk “On the place of herons in archipelagic writing”.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you’re at the @asleuki.bsky.social conference in Galway, take a look at my book The Unnatural Trade on the book stall. I have copies for sale at the special conference price of €30 - ask me in the coffee/lunch breaks. If you’re not in Galway, find out more at brycchancarey.com/bookshop/ind...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m in Galway this week for the conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland (@asleuki.bsky.social), which this year has the theme of “Erosion”. Conference organiser Ashley Cahillane is giving us a warm welcome!

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · Aug 8

We have a new review on our website: Nayanika Shome reviews Brycchan Carey's The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/08/care...)

Carey, Brycchan, The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 – The British Society for Literature and Science

www.bsls.ac.uk

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 10

I took a drive around the Connemara coast this afternoon. Visibility was often poor but the stunning landscape invariably shone through.

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Among the many virtues of The Unnatural Trade... are its deep knowledge of abolitionist thought, its systematic approach to cultural and literary history, and its striking and persuasive turns of phrase" -- Timothy Erwin's review in Modern Philology. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 8

I paid my respects to W.B. Yeats today. I stopped at his grave in Drumcliff church, Co. Sligo, in the shadow of Ben Bulben. Yeats was the one who really turned me on to the power of poetry. Thank you.

Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’ve been walking around Donegal today - including the Eske Estuary, the ruined abbey, and the once ruined but now partly restored castle. I saw my first kingfisher of the year in the river under the castle!

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’m staying in Stranraer tonight. The abandoned ferry terminal in front of the hotel sadly reminds me of what Daniel Defoe said of nearby Kirkcudbright: “Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business.”

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