Reposted by Christian DruryThe Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We have up to £3,000 in funding available for academics, writers and other creatives carrying out research into alpinism, mountaineering and the mountain environment in 2027. Applications close on 1 December, so you have just 8 weeks to submit your application. Details here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5cxa9hyc 0613
Reposted by Christian DruryMountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism 13426
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you're looking for some experimental non-fiction, this is brilliant - a group biography of an XI of seemingly unconnected cricketers (cricket people?), which also reflects on the methodological challenges of historical research 270
Reposted by Christian DruryDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"The Roads That Remain" project at Univ of Tromsø has advertisements out for a postdoc on Arctic infrastructure & GIS www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and a PhD fellow on Arctic Mobility, Landscape and Spatial Justice www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #envhum 074
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A serious outbreak of Metro Bank fever in Darlington 020
Reposted by Christian DruryEllen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...berghahnbooks.comAntarctic Materialities | Berghahn BooksIndependent Publishing since 1994 31811
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is now part of a special issue - Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940) - alongside a really interesting selection of articles, guest edited by Talitha Ilacqua: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjth20/1...tandfonline.comJournal of Tourism HistoryTouristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940); Guest Edited by Talitha Ilacqua. Volume 18, Issue 2 of Journal of Tourism History 151
Reposted by Christian DruryDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Special issue of Art History journal edited by Mark Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social looks great: Crossings in Polar Art History: South and North, Historical and Contemporary academic.oup.com/arthistory/i...academic.oup.comVolume 49 Issue 2 | Art History | Oxford AcademicArt History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe. 062
Reposted by Christian DruryNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/07/2026REMINDER: Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism Deadline for submission: August 3, 2026 Where and when do we see anti-tourism emerge in the historical record? What forms does it take? niche-canada.org/2026/06/24/c... #envhist #envhum #tourismniche-canada.orgCall for Papers: Histories of Anti-TourismWe are looking for scholars already working on this topic, as well as those who may have encountered anti-touristic attitudes, conflicts, or forms of resistance in their research without treating them... 098
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is a great selection of Frank Hurley's photographs from the Endurance expedition: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.com‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expeditionShipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details 075
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Thanks, Andrew - a flying visit to Copenhagen and then visiting family in Aarhus and Hirtshals! 011
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Recently back from sunny Denmark. None of my edgy pictures came out very well, so here's Nyhavn... 180
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026An old piece, but this Gideon Haigh article works well as a tribute to Sobers, Caribbean icon and "individual world player": www.espncricinfo.com/story/gideon...espncricinfo.comMan and supermanOff the field he may have been an awkward hero, on it Garry Sobers was "evolution's ultimate specimen" 000
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The last of the light over our (very warm) cricket match at Maiden Castle tonight 050
Reposted by Christian DruryDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This looks like an amazing PhD opportunity! fully funded "Women Walkers in Latin America" #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO242/p...jobs.ac.ukPhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America at University of BristolDiscover a PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities. 036
Reposted by Christian DruryLeif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Wrote a blog post about my great-grandfather’s archive: open.substack.com/pub/leifhamm... 021
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Congratulations Ollie! Really looking forward to reading it 000
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Played my first game of cricket since 2019 (!) today at a lovely ground in Newcastle. We lost, but I got a couple of wickets (and a very slow 5) 🏏 0110
Reposted by Christian DruryBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This exquisite drawing of a floating iceberg, drawn aboard a schooner in the North Atlantic in the summer of 1859 by Frederic Edwin Church, who was born on this day (4 May) in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1826 🗃️ 110224
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 25/04/2026At the Riverside. Promising England hopeful Ben McKinney has just been knocked over by promising England hopeful James Anderson 150
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This is a nice piece on The Parks (one of my favourite places to watch cricket) and the history of university cricket more generally www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026...telegraph.co.ukOxford University’s Parks cricket ground fights for relevanceFirst-class cricket is a thing of the past at a venue once graced by future England captains plus Imran Khan 010
Reposted by Christian DruryAnu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026PostDoc position in the project “A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950” www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...uu.sePostdoctoral position in digital humanities - Uppsala UniversityPostdoctoral position in digital humanities , Department of ALM, Uppsala University 012
Reposted by Christian DruryNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Call for Papers – Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment 12-13 November 2026 Geneva (Switzerland) Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026 "Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments." niche-canada.org/2026/03/30/c... #envhistniche-canada.orgCall for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and EndangermentDanger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments. 049
Reposted by Christian DruryGreenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhumjobbnorge.noPostdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of StavangerJob title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026 15876
Reposted by Christian DruryLene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪brill.com 143
Reposted by Christian DruryThe End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry @karachikhatmal.bsky.social joins to talk CRICKET, including the sport's colonial history and recent events in the world's most heated rivalry. We had A LOT of fun with this one, with something for novices and experts alike. open.spotify.com/episode/3SZ4... 144
Reposted by Christian DruryPeter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This looks ace! "As the focus intensifies once more on the Arctic, it’s important to remember there isn’t one history, there are many histories. People have long moved in all directions, from all places." Congrats @issygapp.bsky.social and #MarkCheetham! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...theguardian.comArctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsessionAs far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value 045
Reposted by Christian DruryDr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 04/02/2026So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): "Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG" Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR 086
Reposted by Christian DruryDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT. Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 02914
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 14/01/2026"For most of its residents, this is not a talking point or a piece of content from which they can move on or swipe away. It is existential": www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.com‘Are they going to bring their violence here?’: Fear – but little preparation – as threat of invasion looms over GreenlandAhead of high-stakes talks, people tell of alarm, thoughts of fleeing and lack of information on what to do if US invades 021
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I have a new article out in the Journal of Tourism History, looking at how travel guides, infrastructure and photography shaped tourism in Norway. What and who did travel guides depict, in text and photographs, and how? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1275
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This year's Borders and Crossings conference - "New Francophone and Anglophone cross-perspectives on travel writing" - is in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence in September (which sounds very pleasant). CfP deadline: 15th February www.crlv.org/actualites/a...crlv.orgAppel: Aix, 16-18 septembre 2026, "Perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques" | CRLV / AstrolabeSee English version below Appel à communications « Nouvelles perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques » Seuils et Traverses Centre de Recherches sur la Littérat... 040
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Merry Christmas! 🎄 This year's very on-brand present: 040
Reposted by Christian DruryDAISY CUTTER @daisycutterzine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025people get really, really weird about jofra archer's gold chain. why does a piece of jewellery get them so rattled? a material culture analysis via gold chains in hip-hop style 👇 daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i... 31912
Reposted by Christian DruryJeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 22/12/2025Have you listened to the new mountains podcast yet? Put on by @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social and @profpitches.bsky.social, the "Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures" podcast has published its first episode. Also, follow the podcast on Bluesky: @futuremountain.bsky.social .jeremybassetti.comA New Mountains Podcast: 'Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures' | Jeremy BassettiListen to the new mountain podcast coming out of the University of St Andrews 042
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 20/12/2025In looking for something positive to read about the Ashes, I discovered this Mike Selvey piece in the LRB from 1987. The main concerns: the amount of one day cricket being played and the schedule of the County Championship... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...lrb.co.ukMike Selvey · Diary: Jetlagged Cricketers 020
Reposted by Christian DruryFrancis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social · 01/12/2025It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals! 03321
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 01/12/2025This looks like a great opportunity for people interested in working with the Alpine Club collections 🏔️ 0103
Reposted by Christian DruryTina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️ www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...ubcpress.caA Cold ColonialismA Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont... 1106
Reposted by Christian DruryCharlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜cam.ac.ukLibrarianThe Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts 15358
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Some new (to me) Nordic travel writing: William Sansom's THE ICICLE AND THE SUN (1958) 170
Reposted by Christian DruryLaura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 21/11/2025📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th! 04039