Thanks to @jeremystolow.bsky.social for the invitation to Paris to talk about "Colour, Poison, Cure" next month. I'll be talking about my "Feeling Blue" book on hospital colour, alongside lots of fab speakers on everything from toxic wallpaper to chromotherapy.
TOMORROW!
Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto
Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾
Wed 4 Feb
17:45–19:15
Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
Applications are open! Environmental history is a key part of this Environmental Humanities summer school + thinking about how our relationships with the natural world changes over time. Along the way we might well visit Iranian oil fields, Antarctica and the deep sea!
My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
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‘This kind of exposure to other scholars’ real, living work was an essential reminder that the bounds of academic curiosity and innovation do not end with a coursework deadline or at the library or seminar room door.'
Over the summer, recent History graduate Owen Chennetier attended the…
I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.
Historians in their robes
Bristol historians all dressed up for graduation. It’s an absolute highlight of the year getting to celebrate the many achievements of our history students!
Cover for 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)
Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):
'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)
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It primarily argues that taxidermy can tell us lots of cool stuff about time: the Western desire to ‘freeze’ nature, as relating to visions of progress, and the material processes of decay, aging and recycling that disrupt those imaginaries
The book tracks animal specimens (with a focus on skins) from British colonial hunting grounds, through transportation networks, via taxidermy studios and exhibitions to museums. It explores how - even when produced within systems of violence- skins remained ecosystems…
I’ve been sitting on this one for a good while, but I’m chuffed that my book ‘Skinning Empire: Environment, Embodiment and Time in British Taxidermy History’ will be published with OUP. Probably out next year! 🐅
📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨
There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨
‘A central aim of the project is to explore the opportunities, barriers, and conditions that affected self-employed women in the past, but to also think about what this can tell us about women’s working lives in the present…
I’m very excited to be coordinating the Environmental Humanities Summer School at Bristol this July! Join us as we venture into the depths, try our hand at ecological ‘monster’ collage, and explore our vibrant city. More details below!
Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!
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Whoohoo so great to see it out in the world with great collaborators @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social Elaine LaFay #envhum #envhist #foodstudies #sensorystudies
We had a great time with our EH MA students at Windmill Hill City Farm exploring creative responses to animals with @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @alicewould.bsky.social There were kennings, cute kids (of the goat variety), ambiguous becomings, and plenty of biological exuberance.
My new article "Oceanic Pasts, Planetary Futures: Deep-Sea Core Data and Temporal Negotiation in the CLIMAP Project (1971–1982)" is out now with Time & Society. Available OA here:
How has the natural world shaped the past, and how might we include it in the histories that we research, write and tell?
Find out today at the History Showcase with @alicewould.bsky.social, 1pm Arts Complex, LT3
Cover of Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums by Dolly Jørgensen. Taxidermied Carolina parakeet under a glass bell jar.
My amazing book cover is here!
Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.
Picture of Alice Would and Andy Flack's article in our special issue of Environment & History. Echo Worlds bats and moles!!!
There are moles and bats! Echo Worlds by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social in our special issue The Senses and The Environment in @eandhwhp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3828/whpe... co-edited by @gfitz.bsky.social #animalhist #envhist #envhum #skystorians
Our new special issue on The Senes and the Environment is out!!!🥳🥳🥳 save for the introduction which will be in the print version in June 2025. Such great articles by @drandyflack.bsky.social @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social and thanks to our co-editor @gfitz.bsky.social
Andrew Flack and Alice Would on ‘Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations’, here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist
please note that while we do everything in our power to make everyone feel welcome in our galleries and spaces, we are unable to guarantee admission to the Nazgûl or any associate of the Nine
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