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Alice Would

@alicewould.bsky.social
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Historian at University of Bristol. Environmental history, animals, skin, time, teaching. Finishing a book on taxidermy.

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Please share! More info and application details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
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Environmental Humanities | Centre for Study Abroad | University of Bristol
Examine our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis.
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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…
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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!
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Smiling woman holding book with green cover showing colorful parakeet under glass
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
‘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…
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An Undergraduate Journey from Paper to Plane: Owen Chennetier on NAASWCH’s 2025 conference (Ohio, US) | Historians at Bristol
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Alice Would @alicewould.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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.
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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!
Historians in their robes
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/07/2025
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) bit.ly/4kpuKXB 1/2 #Skystorians
Cover for 'Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948', by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)
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Alice Would @alicewould.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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! 🐅
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📣 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 ✨
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
‘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…
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Alice Would @alicewould.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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!
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
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Environmental Humanities
Examine our relationships with nature, why stories about our wild world matter and how we can build hope in the face of environmental crisis.
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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.
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Erik Isberg @erikisberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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:
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.
Cover of Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums by Dolly Jørgensen. Taxidermied Carolina parakeet under a glass bell jar.
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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
Picture of Alice Would and Andy Flack's article in our special issue of Environment & History. Echo Worlds bats and moles!!!
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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
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Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations | Environment and History
In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth through to the early twenty-f...
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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 bsky.app/profile/samg...
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