Just in time, a September blog from me: I went to Wallington, a National Trust property with links to slavery (though you wouldn't know it from visiting), John Ruskin, and the coal and iron wealth of Newcastle. Of course I spotted a Victorian camera, too. 🗃️📜📷📸🎨 christinariggs.com/2024/09/30/t...
Join us online tomorrow Monday, Sept 30th, at 4pm CEST in Norway / 10am Eastern for the Greenhouse #envhumnewnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
If you have mystery apples of your own that you'd like to try to identify, here's my step-by-step guide to the identification process: orchardnotes.com/2021/09/11/h...
The Sound of the Fens: wonderful BBC Open Country in which Martha Kearney visits Helpston & Fen Edge to explore how the landscape has changed since the days of John Clare. Features Francesca Mackenney discussing Clare’s soundscapes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.
Early notice that *next week* we'll be advertising a part-time, 5-month postdoc for a collaborative project between MapReader x National Library of Scotland x Peak District National Park x South Downs National Park. This would be great for PhD candidates or recent PhDs working in digital history!
Given the recent influx of users, I take this as an opportunity to point to the 'Environmental humanities' feed the @greenhouseuis.bsky.social#envhist#envhum#ecocrit posts. 🌿