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Poul Holm

@poulholm.bsky.social
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professor of environmental history, Trinity College Dublin: oceans past, marine environmental history, uses of the past

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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ocean food has stopped growing per person. We industrialised the ocean — and called it abundance. Growth depended on fossil-fuelled fleets and long-distance extraction. The ocean cannot yield more. If we want more, we need to shift to algae and shellfish
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Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Join us for a #BehindTheHeadlines discussion on shifting global norms and the changing international order. Experts in history, law, environmental humanities, and politics will explore recent tensions and their implications for Europe and the world. 🎫 www.eventbrite.ie/e/1981570379...
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tcdtceh.bsky.social @tcdtceh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Marine environments by environmental historians at 23nd Dansk Havforskermøde. Keynote by Poul Holm on 16c presence of fish in Danish waters. Johannes Rom Dahl x 2 on past Extreme coastal weather + kelp fisheries 17c @poulholm.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Postdoc in marine environmental history at Gothenburg University. Work with local teams in Spain, Iceland, Norway, France, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa. Help establish historical baselines for marine protected areas Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Researcher - Marine Environmental History
Department of Historical Studies At the Department of Historical Studies, which belongs to the Faculty of
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Ecologies of War: Terror Environments under and beyond Occupation of Ukraine
A lecture by Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University) organised by the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub.
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Cristina Brito reflects on 20 years of the Oceans Past Initiative in the latest OPI Newsletter pggmleq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijo.... The first OP conference was 24-27 Oct 2005 in Kolding, Denmark. So many good friends - a truly transformative event! @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Researcher, do you know the Frascati Manual? It decides what really counts. And the mindset was fixed fifty years ago. This isn’t a conspiracy. The manual is the spreadsheet that weighs physics and art history, economics, engineering and philosophy open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Why did they not fish? - is a question often raised about the Irish famine of the 1840s. The short answer is they did. The long answer in the paper is about resilience and colonialism, see first comment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
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Marine resource procurement as everyday resistance in Ireland during the Great Hunger (1845–1852) - Emily Schwalbe, Rory Connolly, Sophia Chapple, Poul Holm, 2025
This article seeks to challenge dominant narratives surrounding the Great Hunger in Ireland (An Gorta Mór, 1845–1852) by focusing on the often-overlooked aspect...
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Major reversal of human geography of west and east Denmark before and after Black Death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My open access review of a great book rdcu.be/edXxx
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Jeremy Mynott, The Story of Nature: A Human History
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you like 1000 piece puzzles, this is a great example, all brought nicely together. The collapse of this fishery is the single largest environmental disaster in ocean history. Some interesting points about how current policy uses historical data. open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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500 years of the once largest fishery in the world: A comprehensive catch reconstruction for the Newfoundland cod fishery (1508–2023)
In 2024, the Canadian government lifted the moratorium on fishing in what was once the world’s largest single-species fishery. Over the past thirty ye…
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
For those interested in British and Irish military, commercial and other forms of migration into Scandinavia and Northern Europe, check out this biographical prosopography. Online and free since 1995. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne 🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy Open to updates
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The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities? Open access paper presenting the UNESCO Bridges Consortium and the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The fish revolution - how humans thrived and the oceans shrank bit.ly/3HHMnSc
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The Fish Revolution: how humans thrived and oceans shrank
Fish has long played a vital role in human societies, providing food security and economic growth. But when did fisheries begin to have a significant impact? Once in the late 1500s and again in the late 1700s, fisheries accelerated rapidly and brought food security to European and American societies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Additional Information ──────────────────────────── https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12598 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Social Media ──────────────────────────── https://twitter.com/TCEHTCD https://twitter.com/4oceanserc https://twitter.com/ERC_Research https://www.twitter.com/PoulHolm https://www.twitter.com/tcddublin https://www.twitter.com/patrick_hayes2 https://www.instagram.com/@MarineInst https://www.instagram.com/@4oceanserc https://www.instagram.com/@marineinstituteireland ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Science Animated ──────────────────────────── http://www.sciani.com/ https://twitter.com/Sci_Ani https://www.facebook.com/scianimation/ https://sciani.com/terms-conditions/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #oceans #humanities4theocean #fishrevolution ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is our southern boundary. Yes, it’s a ditch, but it was dug ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED years ago. It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.
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Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very much enjoying @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social's talk Inexhaustible Seas: Fisheries Management in Scotland and the British Empire. Especially pleased to see an illustration of a Dutch haringbuis (herring-bus), which I've read about but never seen. #MaritimeHistory #Fishing #Scotland
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World at the University of Saskatchewan. Please share widely. usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World
Primary Purpose: This position is a Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by a generous private donation. The holder of the fellowship will be expected to e...
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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My #CoastalHistory colleague Joana Gaspar de Freitas has just published a peer reviewed monograph, _A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes_, Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781... #envhist 🗃️
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A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes | Joana Gaspar de Frei
This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers,
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Poul Holm @poulholm.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Historical plankton index - a 1200-year North Sea history uncovered journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… Historical Plankton Index estimates zooplankton abundance in the North Sea back to 800 CE
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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
We examined historical information (e.g. maritime history, naturalists' accounts, recipes, nautical charts and newspapers) across the 13th–20th century for a wide range of species to document their long-term trajectories in Wales onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Century‐scale loss and change in the fishes and fisheries of a temperate marine ecosystem revealed by qualitative historical sources
Century-scale changes in principal fishery species, as revealed by rich qualitative historical sources. The plot shows the main species landed in four ports in northern Wales (Irish Sea, UK) in three...
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Check out Patrick Hayes's review of Elisabeth Townsend's "Cod: A Global History," published in 2022 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #foodstudies #oceanhist #maritime 🐟 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Fynn Holm @fynnholm.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
It is a great honor that my book „The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600–2019“ has won the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) John R. Lyman Book Award in the Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment category.
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