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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The historians among you may be interested in this CALL FOR PAPERS from our colleagues in Turin: inwood.unito.it/events/call-... #envhist
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Call for Papers – INWOOD
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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 · 6h
We've published a new article ahead of print for 'Plant Perspectives', by Hal King on 'Propagating Plant Empathy with Edith Stein'; #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpp... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies
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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 · 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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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 · 01/09/2026
We’ve published a new item ahead of print in ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’, being a review by Barry Edmonston on Aalok Chaurasia’s book 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India’; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3197/whpj...
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Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia, 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India' | The Journal of Population and Sustainability
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
All our publications are now available via Research4Life. R4L “provides institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content [aiming] to improve teaching, research and policymaking….” www.research4life.org @r4lpartnership.bsky.social
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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 · 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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Contrasting Stances on Sustainability by the USA and China | The Journal of Population and Sustainability
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're delighted to announce an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS for our brand new journal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe'. More info attached, and on the new submissions site (www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index). Submissions will open on 15th September. #envhist #envhum
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We're pleased to share the contents of a forthcoming special collection 'Waste Ethnographies', in 'Worldwide Waste' journal. The articles will be published soon, in 2026. #envhum #enthnography #waste
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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 · 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 · 21/09/2026
The historians among you may be interested in this CALL FOR PAPERS from our colleagues in Turin: inwood.unito.it/events/call-... #envhist
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Call for Papers – INWOOD
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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
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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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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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 · 01/09/2026
We’ve published a new item ahead of print in ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’, being a review by Barry Edmonston on Aalok Chaurasia’s book 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India’; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3197/whpj...
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Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia, 'Population and Human Development in Districts of India' | The Journal of Population and Sustainability
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're delighted to announce an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS for our brand new journal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe'. More info attached, and on the new submissions site (www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index). Submissions will open on 15th September. #envhist #envhum
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
All our publications are now available via Research4Life. R4L “provides institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content [aiming] to improve teaching, research and policymaking….” www.research4life.org @r4lpartnership.bsky.social
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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 · 30/08/2026
We're pleased to share the contents of a forthcoming special collection 'Waste Ethnographies', in 'Worldwide Waste' journal. The articles will be published soon, in 2026. #envhum #enthnography #waste
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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 · 06/08/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, by J. Jacob Jones on "Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945"; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/08/06/s... #envhist #envhum #soybeans
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Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945
In this blog, originally polished as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2026), J. Jacob Jones traces the small beginnings of the soybean agro-industry and the profound change …
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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 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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Issue 10.2 of ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’ is now live online; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/index #envhum #population
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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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, in which Isis Brook reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world‘, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16th August). Here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/24/a... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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Exhibition review: ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’
In this blog Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16 August). I…
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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 · 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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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 · 09/06/2026
We've added a new blog post by Margaret Cook - part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Margaret responds to a recent essay by Libby Robin in GE. whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/09/i... @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social #envhist
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An Environmental-History Pracademic: Starting to paddle in flooded waters
In this blog, the first of two responding to Libby Robin’s essay in Global Environment’s new ICEHO series ‘Building Environmental History Around the World’, Margaret Cook de…
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
4 new AOP articles! In 'Unity in Diversity?', Patrick Kupper and Jana Piňosová examine the neglected history of Habsburg nature conservation in the larger context of early 20th century European conservation. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #history
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We're delighted to announce #openaccess publication today of John Foster's monograph 'Lifeworld: A Fresh Approach to Environmental Philosophy'. To access the book online or to order a print copy, you can find all the details here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #philosophy #ethics
Book cover showing a photograph of a green-tinted earth rising over the limb of the moon.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There's a new post on our blog, by Milja van Tielhof on 'Amsterdam, a city with two water problems', introducing her recent #openaccess article in @eandhwhp.bsky.social. Read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/01/a... #envhist #envhum #water
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Amsterdam, a city with two water problems
In this blog Milja van Tielhof introduces the subjects covered in more detail in her just-published Open Access paper in Environment and History, ‘Building Cisterns to Buffer Water Scarcity. …
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Issue 10.2 of ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’ is now live online; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/index #envhum #population
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Congratulations to Christof Mauch on his retirement – which last night in Tutzing provided context for a dramatic book launch: “The Lexicon of Mauch Studies” is now available on our site (and booksellers the world over; print only): www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #mauchstudies
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We’re delighted to be in Tutzing, Bavaria this week, for the ‘Environmental Pasts and Futures’ conference, organised by the Rachel Carson Center. #envhist #envhum
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The latest issue of Environment and History (Vol. 32 No. 3) is live now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We've added a new post to our blog, in which Isis Brook reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world‘, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16th August). Here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/24/a... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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Exhibition review: ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’
In this blog Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16 August). I…
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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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