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An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
See the WHP Blog for a post remembering former editor of Environment and History, John M. Mackenzie #history #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New AOP open-access article! In 'An Interspecies Contact Zone', Benoit Henriet analyses the complex interactions between insectile hazards and segregated human communities in colonial Burundi during the Interwar period. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist #history
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, by Blake Johnson on 'The Great Plains as A Bioregional Warzone'; first published as a Snapshot in 'Environment and History'. Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/08/12/g... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #greatplains
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Antoine Rousseau @tonitorousseau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
J’ai le plaisir d’avoir contribué à ce numéro avec un petit article sur la pratique de la monte des bœufs dans le Grand Chaco 🤠🐮 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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Horse Disease and Flooded Ground: Oxen as Mounts in the Gran Chaco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | Environment and History
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
4 new AOP articles! In 'Unity in Diversity?', Patrick Kupper and Jana Piňosová examine the neglected history of Habsburg nature conservation in the larger context of early 20th century European conservation. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #history
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The latest issue of Environment and History (Vol. 32 No. 3) is live now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
2 new AOP articles! In 'Faith, Famine and Resilience', Carlos Moruno Moyano analyses social consequences the 1817 Subsistence Crisis and water scarcity in northeastern Spain. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist #history
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We’re delighted to announce that our 2025 Impact Factor has increased to 0.8 (Q1, 90th percentile in History & 51st out of 553 ranked history journal). Many thanks to our readers and authors for your continued support! clarivate.com/academia-gov... #envhist #history @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2025 Impact Factors have landed! All our journals have increased their IF – 'Nomadic Peoples' to an excellent 1.3 (Q2 Anthropology); 'Environment and History' to 0.8 (Q1, 90th percentile in History at 51st out of 553 journals ranked) and 'Global Environment' to 0.5 (solidly in Q2 for History).
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's a new post on our blog, by Milja van Tielhof on 'Amsterdam, a city with two water problems', introducing her recent #openaccess article in @eandhwhp.bsky.social. Read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/01/a... #envhist #envhum #water
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Amsterdam, a city with two water problems
In this blog Milja van Tielhof introduces the subjects covered in more detail in her just-published Open Access paper in Environment and History, ‘Building Cisterns to Buffer Water Scarcity. …
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
2 new AOP articles! In 'Listening to Deep Time', Naomi Yuval-Naeh and Leore Joanne Green investigate how nineteenth-century British writers imagined the soundscapes of ancient environments, focusing on the Carboniferous period as a case study doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Two more AOP articles! In 'Selective Ecologies', George Vlachos explores hunting in interwar Greece as a window into the technocratic management of wild fauna and the rise of game as a form of economic capital. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
More recent ahead-of-print articles! In 'Regulating the Wood Trade and Forestry', Cristiano La Lumia examines political & social tensions over timber tariffs in Imperial Germany. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New ahead of print articles! In 'Makhtesh Ramon as a Contested Landscape', Galia Limor-Sagiv examines the environmental history of Israel’s Makhtesh Ramon in the 20th century. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Originally published as a snapshot in Environment and History!
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
New open access ahead-of-print article! In 'Landscapes of Caste Exclusion', Nivedita Nath evaluates the role of caste in the colonial transformation of entangled subcontinental landscapes of forests and fields. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 🗃 #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A 2020 E&H article by Fiona Williamson was translated into Chinese by Li Ruipeng. Read "生活在污秽与对健康的漠视之中” (‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’) here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MDYJqHU2W1... 🗃️ #envhist #chinesehistory
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编译|殖民时期槟城乔治市的天气、公共卫生与城市治理
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We've added a post to our blog, by Donghyun Woo introducing his recent article in 'Environment and History', ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964’: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/09/s... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #cephalopods #korea #envhum
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The Squid That Changed North Korea’s Socialist Policies
Today’s blog by Donghyun Woo introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, 2026), ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area
In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Ad…
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie
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Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp
In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons f…
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New post on the WHP Blog, originally published as a Snapshot in E&H!
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We're delighted to welcome Dr. Leona Watson (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) as E&H's new editor. Many thanks to outgoing editor Dr. David Moon (@york.ac.uk) for his excellent work over the last few years. #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We're delighted to welcome Dr. Leona Watson (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) as Editor of 'Environment and History'. Huge thanks to outgoing Editor, Dr. David Moon (@york.ac.uk), for his excellent work over the last few years. We look forward to seeing what's next for @eandhwhp.bsky.social! #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We're pleased to report that Tim Soens' 2013 article 'Flood Security in the Medieval and Early Modern North Sea Area: A Question of Entitlement?' is now #openaccess, thanks to @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. You can read the piece here: www.doi.org/10.3197/0967... #envhist #northsea @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic
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Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Four (!) new ahead-of-print articles live now! In "Sick of the City", Beth Wittmann explores the fat body politics of outdoor culture in the US, arguing that body size was a culturally impactful factor in shaping perceptions of outdoor recreation doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
In a new blog post, Claudia Leal asks 'Do the vast majority of world dogs – past and present – have a place in history?' Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/15/t... #envhist #dogs #animalhistories @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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Do the vast majority of world dogs – past and present – have a place in history?
In this blog, Claudia Leal contextualises her new article in Environment and History, Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs (online first October 2025), aims to contribute to the broader histor…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We've added a new post to our blog, in which Chris Halsted contextualises his new article in 'Environment and History' on ‘Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve’: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/03/g... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #birds
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Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve
In this blog, Chris Halsted contextualises his new article in Environment and History (online first December 2025), ‘Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History…
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
2 more ahead-of-print articles! In "Visualising Icebergs," Björn Billing examines visual representations of icebergs in engravings and other works of art (c. 1570-1770), elucidating aesthetic and epistemological aspects of the early modern Arctic doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
3 new ahead-of-print articles available now! In "Germany’s Feral Rheas," Chris Halstead examines the establishment of a population of these flightless birds in northern Germany, facilitated by the creation of the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
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Iaroslav Golubinov @jaricleiv.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The book «Mankind Against the Environment: Landscapes of the Great War in Eastern Europe», which I co-authored, has also received reviews. Andrei Vinogradov wrote for @eandhwhp.bsky.social www.whpress.co.uk/EH/reviews/2... Sergey Nelipovich for Russian History Journal roshistras.ru/s30345790s29...
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New post on the WHP Blog, originally published as a fantastic snapshot in E&H! #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We've posted another new piece ahead of print in 'Environment and History', being Claudia Leal's article 'Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs'; online here: doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #dogs #mongrels #colombia #latinamerica @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Je reposte car il y a ✨un article sur l'expertise autour des barrages en Inde coloniale et post-coloniale✨
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We have a new blog post. Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen interrogates the history of the ‘Ecological Indian’ trope and the surrounding debate – a discussion complementing her just-published article in 'Environment and History': whitehorsepress.blog/2025/09/25/e... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhum
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Reminder: come chat with us and learn more about publishing in E&H Tuesday or Thursday at #eseh2025! We’ll be at the WHP stand in the main university building. #envhist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Interested in contributing to E&H or want to learn more about the process? Come see us next week at ESEH in Uppsala! We'll be hosting two "meet the editors" sessions at the WHP @whitehorsepress.bsky.social stand. #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
If you're attending #ESEH in Uppsala next week, you are warmly welcome to come along to one of the informal 'Meet the Editors' sessions held by the editors of 'Environment and History', at the WHP table. More info in the attached flyer. @eseh.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New open access ahead-of-print article! In "A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia," Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg explore the envirotechnical history of nuclear development at Lake Võrtsjärv. Read it here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We're very pleased indeed to see research first published in 'Environment and History' making waves on BBC News – it was the third most read article on the BBC's UK news website as of this morning! @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist
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How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved - BBC News
The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.
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