Congratulations, Lena!

Ever wondered how urbanites in the past have tried to keep cool in the summer using water? Our article has answers! ⛲️👇

Sensing Heat, Finding Cool: The Search for Water in Summertime Paris, New York, and London, 1880–1930 Abstract. At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris, New York, and London were epicenters of urban modernity, but these cities and their inhabitants were

Our @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...

It dives into the fascinating world of seaweeds and examines their role in the making of political cultures and identities in coastal Brittany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also features the striking M. Mével, pictured above, who used seaweeds as his very means of protest!

La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic Abstract. In Brittany, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, seaweed was more than just a fundamental element of coastal ecologies. It sust

I am beyond thrilled to announce that my first solo article has just come out in French History!

The article can be accessed in open access using the link below: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

Thanks very much for coming to listen to us - no worries at all!

Thank you, Charlotte :)

Thank you for coming!

#ESEH2025 also involved seaweeding with artist Julia Lohmann from the Department of Seaweed!

Bravo to my fantastic co-panellists Fabian Zimmer, Damiana Salm, Rebecca Wright, and Hannah Elizabeth for their engaging research & to Anna-Katharina Wöbse for chairing

And it’s a wrap on #ESEH2025!

What an honour to have been part of the panel “From the Inside Out: The Environmental and Health Implications of Regulating the Indoor Environment” featuring dusty, hot, and cold homes across the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany, France and Britain

They are doing crucial & engaging work that places under the spotlight the voices, faces, and homes of those who have borne and continue to bear the brunt of urban heat.

This interdisciplinary panel critically examined daily experiences of urbanites in overheating cities in the US and the UK, in the present and the past.

Delighted to have chaired the panel “Sweltering cities: Uncertainty, energy, ethics and experiences of extreme urban heat” by my @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social colleagues this morning at #ESEH2025

L'été 1911 en France : deux mois et demi de fournaise et 40 000 morts | RetroNews.fr - Le site de presse de la BnF En 1911, les Français vivent deux mois et demi d’extrême sécheresse et de températures anormalement élevées. Une canicule parmi les plus lo...

“L’été 1911 en France : deux mois et demi de fournaise et 40 000 morts”
À lire ici - www.retronews.fr/societe/echo...

Country diary: The hard, heavy work of harvesting seaweed | Kirsteen Bell Loch Euport, North Uist: Crofters have harvested the slippery stuff here for centuries, now part of a sustainable system. But it’s still back-breaking work

The fascinating history lives on —“The hard, heavy work of harvesting seaweed” in
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌡️ Cette semaine, le pays est concerné par une vague de chaleur : il s'agira de la 50ème observée depuis 1947. | METEO FRANCE 🌡️ Cette semaine, le pays est concerné par une vague de chaleur : il s'agira de la 50ème observée depuis 1947. Signe du changement climatique, 32 vagues de chaleur ont déjà eu lieu depuis 2000, ...

It’s getting crowded… www.linkedin.com/posts/meteo-...

We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025.

Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL

Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

It was great to share about community & public engagement on @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social with @chrisjpearson.bsky.social on this fantastic panel with Mary Booth, Janaya Pickett, and @downham.bsky.social

Great piece by Mike Hulme! (open access link in thread)

In London on June 21? Do not miss this special event!

A livestream of the event ‘Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat’ is taking place on 21 May 08.00 BST. Join Wellcome, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and global leaders on the need to act on unprecedented and increasingly deadly extreme temperatures. Image shows a man silhouetted against the sun as he bathes on a hot summer day.

Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work.

The good news? There are things we can do about it.

Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...

Lien appel à candidatures: drive.google.com/file/d/1VYGw...

En lien avec mon travail sur l'histoire de l'été à Paris, je recherche un.e illustrateur.trice avec qui co-créer une bande dessinée mêlant histoire, climat, et fiction. Plus d’informations dans l'appel à candidatures ci-dessous! ☀️

#canicule #bandedessinée #illustration #climat #paris #histoire

Link to the call for applicants: drive.google.com/file/d/1SixM...

Source: BNF/Gallica. Agence Rol, La chaleur à Paris, 11 juillet 1921. A young girl is filling up a bottle of water from a public drinking fountain.

As part of my work on everyday experiences of summer heat in Paris on the project Melting Metropolis, I am looking for an illustrator with whom to create a graphic novel bringing together history, climate, and fiction. For more & French, see below ☀️

#heatwave #illustrator #climate #paris #history

The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.

New book excerpt from former Carson fellow Catherine Dunlop's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭: 𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. Courtesy of @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #envhist