Committee Member Alex Hibberts writes on a recent workshop on the Little Ice Age, hosted by the Institute of Historical Research in London. In early June, researchers from fifteen universities and …

The Northern Environmental History Network welcome Sandra Liwanowksa (University of Cambridge).

The Northern Environmental History Network welcome Sandra Liwanowksa (University of Cambridge).

This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…

In April 2026, scholars from across the UK and abroad came together at the University of York for the NEHN’s annual workshop, titled ‘Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Non-Human Life’. Parti…

The Northern Environmental History Network welcomes Kate Nankervis (York) to speak about histories of climate, clouds and meteorology.

The Northern Environmental History Network welcomes Kate Nankervis (York) to speak about histories of climate, clouds and meteorology.

Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

UCL's Simone Edgar Holmes explores methods of reading colonial maps through the language of waterways.

The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!

Richard Warren, University of Bern

Richard Warren, University of Bern

Islay Shelbourne, University of St Andrews

Thomas Banbury (University of Cambridge) will be speaking at the Northern Environmental History Network's first seminar of 2025/26.

The Future of (Environmental) History: A Roundtable Discussion

Nicola McNeil gives the May seminar on 'An estate of one's own: gender and landholding in the landscape of tenth-century Wessex'

NEHN April : Mel Smith on A Truly Watershed Moment?: The Huns, the Danube, and the “Fall” of Rome

NEHN April : Mel Smith on A Truly Watershed Moment?: The Huns, the Danube, and the “Fall” of Rome

The first in our May series of

NEHN March: Ana Isabel Lopes on Portuguese Sand Dunes and vulnerability, collective action, and landscape change