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ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌟 Join us at #ESEH2025 for a special NEXTGATe event!
Failure Session: Monday 15:30, Humanities Theatre.
We reflect on our academic journeys with the wonderful Sasha Gora, @wildpasts.bsky.social & @robgioielli.bsky.social

Failure happens: what we do with it matters 🌿

#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes

Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is going to be fab, hope to see lots of folk there...

Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · Jun 2

FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc

8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025

Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL

www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · May 14

☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️

Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc

Booking essential:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

#climatecrisis #londonart

Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · May 9

So excited that this project is going to be happening with us in History! Such a great job for someone too 👇

George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · May 9

🚨Job klaxon🚨 Opportunity for an oral historian interested in the history of swimming, water access and ‘blue spaces’ to work at Newcastle with the wonderful Elizabeth Turk on an interdisciplinary Wellcome project. Full details here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Research Assistant/Associate (History)

jobs.ncl.ac.uk

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · May 11

Interesting postdoc at Newcastle being advertised - oral history, archives, environment, wellbeing, with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Research Assistant/Associate (History)

jobs.ncl.ac.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 19

OTD in 1931 the British engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur Charles Wicksteed died.

Best known as a manufacturer of playground equipment and founder of Wicksteed Park, he revolutionised children's play.

Jon Winder (@drjonwinder.bsky.social) explores in this piece from our archive.

Revisiting the Playground

Were playgrounds originally designed and intended for children's use? Jon Winder explores.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Feb 27

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool facebookThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on YouTube...

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Dec 19

Starting a not-quite-so-grey day with more shiny new publications! My article with @drjonwinder.bsky.social & Ellis Spicer on bust cards & policing from the 1960s is now out in advance access in @mbhjournal.bsky.social! Read it open access here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...

The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain

Abstract. Bust cards first emerged in the late 1960s as a way of obtaining help following arrest, giving the user the number of a 24-h telephone line to ca

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · Dec 3

Where a child lives - the built & natural environment around them – is crucial to giving them the best start in life.
Our report reveals how better planning & urban design can help to raise the healthiest generation in history.
www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/

Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where children and young people live - Town and Country Planning Association

Recommendations and an evidence review from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry into children, young people and the built environment (December 2024) For decades, governments, ...

www.tcpa.org.uk

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks so much for pulling this together - could you add me to the second pack please?

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks so much for pulling this together - I'd appreciate being on the list.

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thanks for pulling this together!

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thank you so much for pulling this starter pack together, really appreciate it!

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jul 11

Designed for Play is out today (I'm so excited!).

It's free to read online and available to download from bit.ly/3VBUN4V

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · May 8

The history department at Liverpool have an opening for a fixed term lecturer in environmental history. More details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN283/l...

Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7) at University of Liverpool

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · May 2

I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the social and environmental history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online! #playgroundhistories

The front cover of Designed for Play showing a group of children on a plank swing in the early twentieth century

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join the fab Melting Metropolis team on a fully funded #PhD exploring heat, health and human geographies. Deadline for applications 28 June #phdchat #phdlife
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jan 26

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team!

New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York.

Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March.

www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

Join our NYC team! Our postdoctoral fellow in environmental history ad is out now!

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Feb 6

I'm not sure I use it to its maximum potential, but happy to help if you ever get stuck!

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Feb 6

I've been using it for 5 or 6 years and think it's really useful...

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jan 26

Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team!

New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York.

Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March.

www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jan 25

I've booked a place at this History & Policy workshop on Mobilising the Environmental Humanities - and am really looking forward to exploring how #envhist and #envhumn can contribute to addressing climate emergencies...

www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

History & Policy: Mobilising the Environmental Humanities

www.history.ac.uk

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jan 23

I was excited to find another Jo(h)n Winder in the archive, but sad to hear his bike was stolen while he was swimming in St Pancras baths...

Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · Jan 16

While exploring back copies of the British Medical Journal this morning, I came across the most gruesome treatment so far:

The Hot Mustard Hip-Bath In Diarrhoea.

Sounds like a pretty murky way to start your day...