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Claire Connolly
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Professor of Modern English, University College Cork, Ireland
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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...

Detail of an oil painting showing activity on the banks of the Tyne at Newcastle in 1861: rolled sail on a ship beam at top, a wooden hut with a man seated inside, advertising cart transport, coal and coke, and Rotterdam hay, and a mix of figures at work or rest - including a photographer under the dark cloth of a sterescopic camera. By William Bell Scott, at Wallington house, National Trust, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
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Join us online tomorrow Monday, Sept 30th, at 4pm CEST in Norway / 10am Eastern for the Greenhouse #envhumnewnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Cover of Mnemonic ecologies with rolling hills with sparse trees in fog.
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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

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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...

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Today Sept 29 is Michaelmas (the Feast of St Michael) which means that in the medieval agricultural calendar, it's the first day of pannage. This is the practice of letting pigs go out to woodlands to eat acorns, beechmast, and other forest goodies to fatten them up before winter. #aghist#envhist

two swineherds with a group of pigs in a woodland. One of the swineherds is knocking acorns out of the trees.
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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...

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, The Sound of the Fens
BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, The Sound of the Fens

Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.

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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!

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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. 🌿

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Claire Connolly
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Professor of Modern English, University College Cork, Ireland
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