We welcome Ryan Cecil Jobson to discuss his book, The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty and Power in Trinidad and Tobago

Grimsby Dock Tower exemplifies nineteenth-century infrastructure linking land, sea, commerce, and ecology, revealing buildings as nodes within global circulation systems.

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

‘Freedom is a Constant Struggle’

Getting to African Futures by Revisiting African Pasts

Knowledge will be the first frontier of our freedom.

Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

The story of an ‘expedition’ that destroyed a civilisation, killed thousands and looted billions.

Postdoctoral Researcher on Aquatic Science and Technology Studies and More-than-human relations

A lament

A team of scientists investigating a large area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone have found an astonishing 5,000 new species living on the ocean floor. The species they logged...

The Oceans HSTM Working Group will meet on August 19, 2025, from 2 to 3:30 pm EDT, when Alison Glassie (Northeastern University) will join us as guest facilitator to lead us in discussing a novel rela...

Our hunger for the Earth’s natural riches drives both political power and immense destruction. Two new books call for a reappraisal of the wealth beneath our feet