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Jon Winder

@drjonwinder.bsky.social
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Environmental Historian of Modern Britain | Heatwaves, Overheating & Environmental Change | Cities, Urban Childhoods & Play | Heritage, Public Engagement & Policy

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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm really looking forward to being part of the #MorethanChild'sPlay workshop next week @ethz.ch + meeting Elena Valdameri and playground historians from around the world @kvallgarda.bsky.social @catrionaellis.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @viviankonghk.bsky.social
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@meltingmetropolis.bsky.social is heading to London's Saatchi Gallery this summer! news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/04/17/l...
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Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery - University of Liverpool News
Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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/...
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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
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/01/2026
If you're looking for #history networks on BlueSky in 2026, our Starter Pack - recently updated - has details of 150 leading societies, organisations and groups active in the UK and Ireland bit.ly/4ptl0On #Skystorians
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Societies & groups for historians, UK and Ireland
Join the conversation
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Landscape Research @landscaperesearch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Potentially of interest to our followers, Landscape Review’s latest issue is out and it is a special issue on Heat! You can see the issue here: journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr...
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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): Heat! | Landscape Review
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/12/2025
New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
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Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Great to see Playthings & Playtimes published and free to read online (including my chapter on the curious place of the child in the city!)
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Approaching the midpoint of the Melting Metropolis, project PI @chrisjpearson.bsky.social reflects on what to do with climate brokenness: www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/bro...
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Broken Climate, Broken Britain? Crafting a response  — Melting Metropolis
Approaching the midpoint of the project, PI Chris Pearson reflects on what to do with climate brokenness.   There is a lot of talk these days about living in a ‘broken Britain’ under a ‘broken c...
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🌟 Join us at #ESEH2025 for a special NEXTGATe event! Failure Session: Monday 15:30, Humanities Theatre. We reflect on our academic journeys with the wonderful Sasha Gora, @wildpasts.bsky.social & @robgioielli.bsky.social Failure happens: what we do with it matters 🌿 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Low-income and minority ethnic people in England most at risk from dangerously hot homes
Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This is going to be fab, hope to see lots of folk there...
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Melting Metropolis @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart
Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail
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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So excited that this project is going to be happening with us in History! Such a great job for someone too 👇
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Interesting postdoc at Newcastle being advertised - oral history, archives, environment, wellbeing, with funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Assistant/Associate (History)
Research Assistant/Associate (History)
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 19/03/2025
OTD in 1931 the British engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur Charles Wicksteed died. Best known as a manufacturer of playground equipment and founder of Wicksteed Park, he revolutionised children's play. Jon Winder (@drjonwinder.bsky.social) explores in this piece from our archive.
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Revisiting the Playground
Were playgrounds originally designed and intended for children's use? Jon Winder explores.
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...
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Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool facebookThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on YouTube...
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Starting a not-quite-so-grey day with more shiny new publications! My article with @drjonwinder.bsky.social & Ellis Spicer on bust cards & policing from the 1960s is now out in advance access in @mbhjournal.bsky.social! Read it open access here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...
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The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain
Abstract. Bust cards first emerged in the late 1960s as a way of obtaining help following arrest, giving the user the number of a 24-h telephone line to ca
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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Where a child lives - the built & natural environment around them – is crucial to giving them the best start in life. Our report reveals how better planning & urban design can help to raise the healthiest generation in history. www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/
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Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where children and young people live - Town and Country Planning Association
Recommendations and an evidence review from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee inquiry into children, young people and the built environment (December 2024) For decades, governments, ...
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Designed for Play is out today (I'm so excited!). It's free to read online and available to download from bit.ly/3VBUN4V
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Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 - University of London Press
Children’s playgrounds are commonly understood as the obvious place for children to play: safe, natural and out of the way. But these expectations hide a convoluted and overlooked history of children’...
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
The history department at Liverpool have an opening for a fixed term lecturer in environmental history. More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN283/l...
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Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7) at University of Liverpool
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching and Scholarship) (Grade 7). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the social and environmental history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online! #playgroundhistories
The front cover of Designed for Play showing a group of children on a plank swing in the early twentieth century
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Join the fab Melting Metropolis team on a fully funded #PhD exploring heat, health and human geographies. Deadline for applications 28 June #phdchat #phdlife www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Heat, Health and Human Geographies: Exploring Caribbean Responses to Urban Heat Stress through Creative Ethnographic Methods at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team! New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York. Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March. www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...
Join our NYC team! Our postdoctoral fellow in environmental history ad is out now!
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Come and work with the Melting Metropolis team! New postdoc position available, based at Queens College-CUNY and working with the amazing @KaraSchlichting on histories of heat in New York. Full-time, 3 year position, deadline to apply 18 March. www.rfcuny.org/careers/post...
Join our NYC team! Our postdoctoral fellow in environmental history ad is out now!
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
I've booked a place at this History & Policy workshop on Mobilising the Environmental Humanities - and am really looking forward to exploring how #envhist and #envhumn can contribute to addressing climate emergencies... www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...
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History & Policy: Mobilising the Environmental Humanities
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
I was excited to find another Jo(h)n Winder in the archive, but sad to hear his bike was stolen while he was swimming in St Pancras baths...
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
While exploring back copies of the British Medical Journal this morning, I came across the most gruesome treatment so far: The Hot Mustard Hip-Bath In Diarrhoea. Sounds like a pretty murky way to start your day...
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
If you're interested in a geography PhD looking at: ~ play, space, streets, communities ~ walking, cycling, wheeling (incl for children & YP) ~ social geographies of austerity/cost-of-living crisis ~ or similar then please get in touch! More info on studentships here: twitter.com/DtpNine/stat...
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Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
It's lovely to see everyone here - and the wintery blue sky out of the window this morning. Canterbury is looking good in the sunshine. Looking forward to sharing social, environmental and childhood history stuff in due course...
Canterbury Cathedral
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