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Harry Croft

@harrycroft.bsky.social
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he/him | Humboldt research fellow | environmental history | Universität Augsburg

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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for Writing Support Program! Are you an early-career scholar working on a manuscript? Apply for this great opportunity with Andrea Gaynor and Mona Bieling. #envhist #envhum
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum
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The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030!
York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Last week at the Universität Augsburg it was my great pleasure to host a really interesting 2-day hybrid workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Here are some words I wrote: www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet...
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International Scientists Engage in Exchange at the Workshop “Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History”
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It was such a treat to be able to bring so many sharp minds together for this workshop — I have many news ideas and so much to think about!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wow, isn't this the best lineup you've ever seen?! Don't be jealous! The programme for our workshop, "Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten: Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History", is now live! Get in touch if you'd like to take part, I'll be very happy to share participation details
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Consider this the first of many posts from me on my upcoming workshop on "Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History"! If you'd like to join in-person in Augsburg, Melbourne, or online, let me know! www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet...
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"Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten: Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History"
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a Nolan film would fail the bechdel test, but it strikes me that across the full three hours no two characters have a single conversation about something other than a man
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'International Review of Environmental History Volume 12, Issue 1' is out now. Explore new research across Asia and the Pacific on environmental knowledge, disaster management, conservation, colonial legacies, and environmental change. Available now: doi.org/10.22459/IREH.12.01.2026
ANU Press New Release. Cover image of International Review of Environmental History: Volume 12, Issue 1, 2026
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reviewer 2 aint got nothing on Susan Sontag
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Frankly, I'm gutted by this announcement. This is laying down a red carpet for Western chauvinists and white supremacists. I will be desperately searching for a new academic job next year, but I would never be able to bring myself to apply for one of these. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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University of Melbourne launches transformative Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Scholarship in the Humanities
Faculty of Arts students at the University of Melbourne will benefit from one of the most generous undergraduate scholarships in Australia through the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for Western Ci...
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
See ya there!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My thoughts on the recent and delightful Canadian History of the Environment Summer School! Thanks for having me ☺️
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What can flying-fox migration patterns teach us about climate change? Come along to the AHA at Macquarie University next week to find out!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
AHAing at Macquarie University next week? We're here to help :D
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We've added another new blog post that's part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Harrison Croft responds to the recent essay by Libby Robin in GE: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/12/i... #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social
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Encounters with the Sublime: On Doing Environmental History Outside the Office
In this blog Harrison Croft dons his ‘stout pair of boots’ and takes environmental history out of the office’ in a second response to Libby Robin’s essay in Global …
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thanks Libby! This was a fun one 😊
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A new essay in our series "Building Environmental History Around the World" is out! Margaret Cook here responds to Libby Robin's recent essay in Global Environment. All posts can be read here: www.iceho.org/notes-from-t... @libbydeq.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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Notes from the ICEHOUSE — ICEHO
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
History Australia 23(2) has just dropped. Time to grab a ☕ and dig in. Browse the full issue 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Made it to PEI and ready for some history!
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Unloading the sheep at the Port Phillip District: invasion, agency and non-human non-complicity, 1835–1853 by Harrison Croft 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #historyaustralia 23(1) #openaccess @harrycroft.bsky.social
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pedestrian crossings, bike lanes, benches, free water and toilets… Paris in 2026 is just a few clock towers away from becoming a flâneur’s utopia!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
FINAL CALL! join our exciting hybrid workshop in Germany in September Abstracts due on Friday!
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Finally! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Breaking: Julie Bishop resigns as ANU chancellor
The former foreign minister had previously rejected calls from university staff and students to resign.
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This week the AHA gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry regarding Job-Ready Graduates. Here's President Michelle Arrow on repealing JRG as an important first step in reforming Australia's tertiary education sector.
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Next Monday at Universität Augsburg! It was quite fun digging through some material from my Hons thesis while writing this guest lecture
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Already many wonderful abstracts have made their way into my inbox! And, if you needed even more convincing, I am delighted to announce Dr Kate Stevens @historykate.bsky.social as the first keynote speaker See you there!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Coming soon! Me on whales
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I was very lucky to spend a night at the Schneefernerhaus, a geology and climate research station atop Germany's tallest mountain. We learnt about the important work being carried out there, and awoke to a cold and fairy-floss coloured moonset c.2650 metres above sea level
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The latest instalment of Past/Present: David Lee takes a look at how Australia has weathered fuel crises in the past, and ponders what we can learn from these experiences. Crucial reading!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia has weathered fuel crises before. What can we learn from previous oil price spikes?
After the second world war, cheap oil was a foundation of global economic stability. That changed dramatically in 1973
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Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mate, that four corners episode could have gone for 6 hours and still not laid it all out how bad things are. Australian universities are cooked and VCs are holding the tongs.
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Now on the Universität Augsburg website! Already some fantastic proposals have been trickling in www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet...
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Announcement: “Uncharismatic Species” Workshop
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This issue of ‘Lilith' explores gender in 20th-century Australia and Britain, from maternal feminism and 'Citrus Queen' pageants to motherhood and mental health, and the arguments that won abortion law reform in 1960s Britain. Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/LFH... #feminist #feminism #gender
ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'.
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Not content with defacing Australia, Gina Rinehart hoped to dig up the Rockies as well ... "[Kyla Tienhaara] termed 'preposterous' an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism that 'allows for companies to claim compensation for speculative lost future profits rather than just their sunk costs'"
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In the latest instalment of Past/Present, Hannah Forsyth takes a look at the decades-long forces that have produced the current crisis facing Australian universities. Follow the link to read more: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth
Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
HDRs and ECRs! Remember that applications are currently open for a stack of grants and bursaries designed to help get you to our annual conference in July! Check them out here: theaha.org.au/awards-and-p...
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Awards and Prizes - The Australian Historical Association
The AHA administers a range of prizes and awards annually and biennially. The Association is also proud of their partnership with the National Archives of Australia to offer scholarships to…
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@sighmonger.bsky.social @libbydeq.bsky.social @ncushing12.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social @monicavasile.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @mcookhistory.bsky.social @amandawells.bsky.social @historykate.bsky.social @clairewwood.bsky.social @lynetterussell.bsky.social FYI
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m so happy to see this out in the world!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I am really pleased to see my article here, alongside some brilliant scholarship and the journal's first Dadirri essay! Bravo!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Filed under: "most contrived linking sentences I've ever drafted"
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
the bell tolls for thee www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Exciting news!!! The CFP for the 2026 AHA Conference has been extended! Missed out on submitting an abstract? You've now got until 20 February -- two whole extra weeks! We can't wait to see you at Macquarie University in July -- head to the website for all the details! theaha.org.au/aha-conferen...
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AHA Conference 2026 - The Australian Historical Association
Monday 29 June–Friday 3 July 2026, Macquarie University The 45th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference will be hosted by Macquarie University.  The organising committee are excited to…
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Attn: AHA members! Matilda and I are working on a collection of captioned photographs along the following lines. Please send submissions to our email address!
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My review of @mcookhistory.bsky.social brilliant 2nd edition of her brilliant book, A River with a City Problem: press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
For the entire month of December, the History Australia special collection on history and AI is free to read! Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and happy reading! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
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History and AI
Explore the article collection: History and AI. Published in History Australia.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
As a teenager I'd go there almost every week, reading rare and obscure books. It felt like I was entering a temple. Now the model seems to be a McDonald's franchise
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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Extended deadline! Join our 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 by applying by 11 December. Organized by Mona Bieling and hosted by Andrea Gaynor. @monabie.bsky.social #EnvHist #EnvHum
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