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Agreed. I wrote this in January to try to get some attention on the issue. It’s going to cost the BL a great deal more than £400k … www.standard.co.uk/comment/brit...

Thanks everyone for attending & asking great questions about our @collecol.bsky.social#WCEH2024#envhist#envhum#collectionswww.chstm.org/content/coll.... Programme starts in the autumn. 📗🏛️

Reposting this as first panel of #WCEH2024@iceho.bsky.social@collecol.bsky.social#envhist 📗 Cannae wait!

Chuffed to share these roundtables with amazing people. 1st: @nickytheprof.bsky.social@dbrh.bsky.social@arnoldke.bsky.social@ehameeteman.bsky.social@sebmergence.bsky.social@ramya.bsky.social#wceh2024 📗

DDdominikhhh.bsky.socialAug 7, 2024 4:59pm

Finished my schedule for #wceh2024 @iceho.bsky.social . Hard work: so many great panels to choose from. Come & see yours truly at our @collecol.bsky.social roundtable on 21/8 4 pm EEST or the „Environmental historians for a sustainable academia“ roundtable on 24/8 9 am EEST. #envhist 📗 Cannae wait!

WCEH2024 Conference

World Congress of Environmental History, August 2024 in Oulu, Finland

Finished my schedule for #wceh2024@iceho.bsky.social@collecol.bsky.social#envhist 📗 Cannae wait!

WCEH2024 Conference

World Congress of Environmental History, August 2024 in Oulu, Finland

Hi @vcampanacho.bsky.social‬! So this legal battle happened ages ago - in the 1870s. The 'type set' is in Lisbon & next most complete set in Britain, & so on. While I haven't seen these collections mentioned specifically, they are of course part of larger debates occurring on specimen repatriation.

I had a bit of free time while on a two-month work secondment & finally went through some material on the legal battle between the British Museum & the Portuguese Government (/Kew Gardens) for Friedrich Welwitsch's Angolan collections. Truly a series of dramas not to be missed! 😜

CEcollecol.bsky.socialJun 12, 2024 1:08pm

Don't miss our next Collection Ecologies CHSTM seminar at 12pm EDT/6pm CEST! Our very own @arnoldke.bsky.social will discuss new research entitled 'The Will of Welwitsch: Collections as the Object of a Transnational Legal Battle' ✨ Sign up here for the link ➡️ chstm.org/content/coll...

Excellent piece by Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.socialwww.theguardian.com/books/articl...#History 🗃️

‘Imperial nostalgia has become so extreme’: Sathnam Sanghera on the conflict surrounding colonial history

Historians are terrorised for doing their work while the rightwing narrative has gained traction with those in power. The Empireland author explores the dangers of denial