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Partner in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, otherwise to be found obsessing about food, gardening, hiking, sailing, undertaking grandiose acts of DIY, hoping for the best

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’ve published two new articles ahead of print in ‘Global Environment’. #envhist #openaccess
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a new article in 'Journal of Population & Sustainability', by G. Martine & I. Cavallini Johansen on 'Contrasting Stances on Sustainability by the USA and China: Political Economy and Demographic Paradoxes in the Two Main Agents of Climate Change'; #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpj...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're delighted to be working again with the Oak Springs Garden Foundation on a virtual programme for 'Plant Perspectives' – "Gardens as Spaces of Healing". The session is on Wednesday 21st October; more info attached; and register here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... #envhum #plantstudies #gardens
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ve published issue 3.2 of ‘Plant Perspectives’, a special issue on ‘Global More-than-Human Histories of Palms’ (guest edited by Sophie Chao, Pilar Egüez Guevara and Jayson Maurice Porter); #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie... #plantstudies #envhum #palms
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We've added a post to our blog, remembering John M. Mackenzie, who passed away last week. John was an early editor of 'Environment and History', whose important work paved the way for the journal's success since. The post is here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/09/21/j... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social
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Professor John M. Mackenzie (2 October 1943 – 18 September 2026)
John in 2022, © Nigel Dalziel. A note from Andrew Johnson, Partner, The White Horse Press. We are sad to report the death of Professor John M. MacKenzie on 18 September 2026. I first met John 35 ye…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ve published a new special collection on Waste Ethnographies (edited by Trine Brox), as part of 'Worldwide Waste' volume 9; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/issue/vie... #waste #ethnographies
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We've posted a new piece on our blog, by George Martine and Igor Cavallini Johansen on 'The Climate Paradox of the World’s Two Biggest Powers'; online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/09/15/m... #envhum #climate
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The Climate Paradox of the World’s Two Biggest Powers
In this blog, George Martine and Igor Cavallini Johansen preview their new article in The Journal of Population and Sustainability, ‘Contrasting Stances on Sustainability by the USA and China…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ve published ‘Global Environment’ issue 19.3, #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’ve published ‘Nomadic Peoples’ issue 30.2, a special issue on Pastoralists and COVID-19 (guest edited by Angela Kronenburg García, Joana Roque De Pinho and Annemiek Pas Schrijver); #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our NEW JOURNAL 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' is now OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Check out the journal site for scope and aims, a call for papers, and more information: www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index #envhist #envhum #S2O #subscribetoopen #openaccess
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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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We've published a new online first article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Sanja Puljar D'Alessio on 'Arboreal Political Bodies: From Liberty Trees to the European Tree of the Year'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... #envhum #plantstudies
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, republishing an essay from the latest issue of 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability' in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. #population #pronatalism #envhum #planetaryhealth whitehorsepress.blog/2026/07/31/p...
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Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test
This blog republishes an essay from the latest issue of The Journal of Population and Sustainability in which a collective of high-profile scholars argues against pronatalism. The authors are Célin…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Nomadic Peoples', by Dejene Debsu: 'Has Mobility Increased over Time? Pastoral Movement and Rangeland Management Practices in Chifra Woreda of the Afar Region, Northeast Ethiopia'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #Ethiopia
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HAS MOBILITY INCREASED OVER TIME? PASTORAL MOVEMENT AND RANGELAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN CHIFRA WOREDA OF THE AFAR REGION, NORTHEAST ETHIOPIA | Nomadic Peoples
This study was conducted in 2015 and 2023 for three months in Chifra woreda of the Afar National Regional State (ANRS). The results of the study show that pastoralists were less mobile prior to the early periods of the derg government and depended on ...
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In 'Engineering Redemption', Diego Zorita Arroyo situates Francoist colonisation villages within broader debates about nature and nation in twentieth-century fascist regimes. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #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 · 18/06/2026
We've published a new article ahead of print in 'Nomadic Peoples', by Dominic van Asseldonk: "Constructing Cohesion, Countering Conflict. Pastoralist Foodways in Moroto District, Karamoja". Read it #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #uganda
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CONSTRUCTING COHESION, COUNTERING CONFLICT. PASTORALIST FOODWAYS IN MOROTO DISTRICT, KARAMOJA | Nomadic Peoples
Journal articles, NGO reports and news media commonly set Karamoja and its pastoralist people in a scene of contestation and struggle: cattle-rustling-related violence, government policy and security issues putting pressure on the mobile nature of the ...
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
‘Global Environment’ 19.2 is live. It's a special issue on ‘Imagining Planetary Health, Wellbeing and Habitability: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities’, edited by L. Klassen and C. Mauch: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social #openaccess
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our new webpage is live, for our brand new journal 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe', here: whpress.co.uk/EE.html. We'll be sharing more information soon, and opening for submissions a little later in the year. #envhist
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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 · 26/05/2026
There's a new post on our blog, 'From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University', by Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and José María Sánchez Laforet: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/05/26/m... #envhist #madrid
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From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University
In this blog Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and José María Sánchez Laforet synthesise the contribution of their recent Open Access article in Environment and Hist…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We've published another article ahead of print in 'Global Environment', by Miguel Mundstock Xavier De Carvalho on 'Animals, Gaúchos and Drovers in the Historical Formation of Southern Brazil (XVI–XIX Centuries)'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We're launching a new journal and can finally share the news! Edited by Stephen Brain and Victor Pal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' will open to submissions in Autumn this year, for a first issue in 2027. More information forthcoming soon! #envhist #envhum
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congrats to @hcraddock.bsky.social for making RHS shortlist of best early career articles with “The Absence of the Ackee Tree“. And congrats to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & @plantperspectives.bsky.social for publishing it. Great to see #envhist on the list! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/05/18/r...
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Royal Historical Society Early Career Article Prize, 2026 – Shortlisted Titles | Historical Transactions
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We've added a post to our blog, by Shelley Kolstad on 'Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory', contextualising her recent #openaccess article in Plant Perspectives: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/05/20/m... #plantstudies #envhum #mangroves
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Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory
In this blog Shelley Kolstad evokes the sensory and embodied experience of the fieldwork site that inspired her article in Plant Perspectives (online first May 2026), ‘Between the “Outl…
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Really pleased that my @plantperspectives.bsky.social article has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org early career article prize! doi.org/10.3197/WHPP...
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The Absence of the Ackee Tree | Plant Perspectives
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We've published a new AoP article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Shelley Kolstad, 'Between "The Outlier" and "The Dead": Ethnographic and Phenomenological Encounters with a Mangrove Community'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP. #plantstudies #mangroves #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In 'Women and Rural Property in Medieval Bologna', Rosa Smurra and Taylor Zaneri incorporate GIS, tax records and modern soil data to examine women landowners and their roles in 13th century Bologna's economy. 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
In 'From Conversion to Conservation', Nawiyanto and Pim de Zwart analyze this shift in environmental practices in colonial Java, driven by consequences of deforestation 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 · 01/05/2026
We've published a new book review in 'Nomadic Peoples', by J. Terrence McCabe on Greta Semplici's 'Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #pastoralism #kenya #drylands #resilience
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We've published a new article in 'Plant Perspectives', by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya on 'The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in the Community Garden of the Limache Hospital'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies #chile
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We've added a post to our blog, by Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya, reflecting on 'What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital'; online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/04/22/h... #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital
In today’s blog, Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya introduces his article just published in Plant Perspectives (21 April 2026, online first) ‘The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in t…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation
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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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We've posted a new book review online first in 'Nomadic Peoples', about Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio's 'Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya' (@uoftpress.bsky.social); #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpn... #kenya #colonialism #settlers #nomadism
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Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio, with a Foreword and Afterword by Ramson Karmushu, Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya | Nomadic Peoples
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We've co-published a new blog post with ICEHO; J. Palmblad responds to S. Sörlin’s ‘Staying Open – Shaping Environmental History in Sweden’, from 'Global Environment' Feb 2026: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i... @iceho.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist
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The Environments of History: An Account by a Human Organism
This essay by Jonatan Palmblad is the first in a series co-published with ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians whose ref…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We've posted a new #openaccess article online first in 'Global Environment'; G. Leghissa on 'Resurrecting the Ancient Granary: The Influence of the Classics in Western Imagery of Mesopotamia (Fifteenth–Twentieth Centuries)'; here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg... @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We're excited to announce that the new editor of 'Plant Perspectives' is Joela Jacobs (University of Arizona). Read more about the news on our blog, here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/17/p... #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social
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Plant Perspectives – meet the new editor!
Today we at the White Horse Press announce a change to the editorship of Plant Perspectives. Issue 3.1 (published last week) marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor. We are hugely grateful to John for …
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Issue 30.1 of ‘Nomadic Peoples’ is live! This special issue on ‘Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa’ was guest edited by Giordano Marmone & Kelly Askew. #Openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism #nomads
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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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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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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026
Library support for Diamond OA publishing is also about supporting bibliodiversity - it's about giving unfunded academics the opportunity to publish OA #CopimConference
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Sarah Johnson @sarahwhpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Stimulating discussion at the @copim.bsky.social conference - how do we take Open Access strategy out of the echo chamber?
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