At the Covid-19 Inquiry today Boris Johnson has justified his government's poor coronavirus pandemic response by arguing it was “outside our living experience”. Perhaps he should have spoken to a historian. niche-canada.org/2022/08/11/t...#HistMed#HistSci#EnvHist@petermandler.bsky.social
These old photographs, like ghost ships, seldom bring us what we want.
Don't miss Vera Keller's seminar on Wed: 'Undisciplined Empires: Hints as a Colonial Genre' which is part of the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. Please note that we meet this time betw. 18-19 CET. To participate via Zoom email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se. Please circulate!
I am shocked, but sadly unsurprised, to learn from @apf102.bsky.social that History Reclaimed has an absolutely repellant article claiming that Canadian residential schools were designed to help Indigenous children "escape" from "regrettable and disabling indigenous lifestyles". 🗃️ 1/
Last night was the first time I've been certain about a brown bear being in our garden in northern Greece, having left a trail across the moonlit snow past our woodpiles and front door before dropping backwards over the edge of a stone wall by hanging on with its front claws. New garden species!
Residential school denialism leaps the pond (it’s a UK publication) #cdnhist
Rare earth #KalaallitNunaatdanwatch.dk/en/undersoeg...
The battle over subsoil continues. An Australian mining company believes it has the right to extract critical minerals from a mountain in South Greenland, a venture which Greenland has rejected due to...
A postcard depicting Therese Bertheau, one of the best known early female mountaineers in Norway, as drawn by Ole Christoffer Thorkelsen, c. 1900 📷: Mittet & Co. AS/Nasjonalbiblioteket
