very excited about these two amazing artists!

join us next Friday!

come and join me on 26 February at UCalgary, it’s a free event with a reception after the talk, but you need to register @ laceylecture2026.eventbrite.ca

Congratulations!

Jennifer Vanderpool’s Untold Stories Exhibition Opens at Wentworth Woodhouse Almost half a century after the decline of South Yorkshire’s steel industry began to reshape the region, a new exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse explores what the transformation has meant for the peop...

Great to see the work of former artists in residence Jill McNight and Jennifer Vanderpool in @deindustrialpol.bsky.social ripple outwards.

www.sunderlandculture.org.uk/whats-on/jil...
newsbywire.com/jennifer-van...

Jill McKnight: Past and Future Pact — Jonathan Weston Jill McKnight: Past and Future Pact   More Information Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Saturday 26 July - Saturday 9...

More on Jill McNight's powerful deindustrialization exhibition that originated in her @deindustrialpol.bsky.social artist-in-residency.
jonathanweston.co.uk/Jill-McKnigh...

Cover image of the book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries by Wouter Saelens, showing a painting of a man and woman sitting by lamplight in an otherwise dark room.

Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

so happy this is finally out: Petra Dolata, "History of Energy Transitions," In Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method (Bloomsbury, 2025); reach out if you want to read it

www.bloomsburyhistorytheorymethod.com/article?doci...

excellent opportunity for artist(s) who are interested in deindustrialization and the environment, it is a non-residential fellowship open to all!

Milder S. Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983. Cambridge University Press; 2017.

energy scholars, join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/roundtable... @nichecanada.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jeffmanuel.bsky.social @pamelabanting.bsky.social

join us tomorrow as we (Energy In Society at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities talk about deindustrialization, energy transitions, extractivism and degrowth

Energy historians: the Hagley Museum and Library is hosting "The Power of Energy" conference on October 30-31. It's an online conference and registration is now open. This will be a great chance to hear some exciting new research. Hope to see you there (virtually)
www.hagley.org/research/con...
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Hi bsky 👋. Did you know I have a podcast? It’s called Energy vs Climate and I’ve been away for the past year but I’m back and if you have never listened before we have a whole back catalogue with some cool stuff. Here is a pick of some favourites from a range of different kinds of topics/shows

energy historians working on transitions, please join us!

now that this crazy term is over and students have written their exam (although I still have to mark) I finally get to say hello on here, and what better time to do this than at the start of the Northern Super League, I’m super excited, Go Calgary Wild FC Go ⚽️