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Simon Naylor

@simonnaylor.bsky.social
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Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!
Historical Geographies: the basics.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Cafe visit and writing time sounds terrific to me! I've had to make do with homemade coffee (and sourdough)
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Great! My 5am taxi for 6.30 flight was clearly also hyper cautious. Then had 4 hrs in Oslo airport, where I found a place that made its pastries onsite, amazing.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thank you to @bshsnews.bsky.social for featuring an extract from my new book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, in their Viewpoint magazine.
Excerpt from Naylor's book The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its EmpireExcerpt from Naylor's book The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Rather pleased with my silver coin commemorating 40 years of China's polar scientific expeditions. Thanks to my PhD student, Xin Yang!
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Delighted to see The Observatory Experiment finally out in the real world. Available to buy from Cambridge University Press on 10 October. In the meantime, do join the book launch on 9 October! Register here: forms.office.com/e/GtfdghVJen
The Observatory Experiment, published by Cambridge University Press
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
We are organising a session on the historical geographies of science at the ICHG 2025 conference in Shanghai and looking for a fifth contributor. Deadline is very tight - 30 September! If you are interested please get in touch.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
If you're in Glasgow and have nothing better to do / need to shelter from the autumn rain, you're very welcome to come to my book launch and inaugural lecture, 4-5pm on 9th October. Or join the livestream! Scan the QR code to register. Would be lovely to see you there.
Inaugural lecture and book launch invitation, 4pm, 9th October 2024
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
If you're at the RGS-IBG conference this Friday, 30 August (9am in Royal School of Mines, just off Exhibition Rd), do please consider coming to our session, Mapping the Historical Geographies of Water Infrastructures, co-organised with Lawrence Dritsas.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Do hope it’s okay to share the cover for my forthcoming book? I think it looks quite nice.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Have reached the ‘what was I thinking when I said I’d do my own index?’ stage of my book’s life.
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
More than a little relieved to get revised ms off to CUP ahead of the Xmas break, even if it means I’ve one less reason not to get on with my marking…
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