ESEH – European Society for Environmental History

Book cover of the third volume of an Environmental history of France, "Les natures du productivisme", published by La Découverte.

Pour accompagner la parution du 3e tome d'histoire environnementale de la France, "Les natures du productivisme", une bibliographie et une chronologie sont mises à disposition sur le site @leruche.bsky.social :
leruche.hypotheses.org/une-histoire...
@eseh.bsky.social

Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.

Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:

"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...

#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

g-ehr.com/submit/

Video now also on Youtube:
Includes some of my favourite bits from my #envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern research into Alpine & Animal history, like the mysterious exploding pigs Andeer & retirement homes for cows from the title & more, like the iron eating cows of Disentis

youtu.be/t3xiWUfztmk

We're pleased to see this positive review of 'Nordic Climate Histories' in @hnetreviews.bsky.social: www.h-net.org/reviews/show... The book is available in paperback and #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhist

New Environmental History Today webinar!
Date and Time: March 10 2026, 15:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Zoom: universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/6722564220...
#EnvHist

Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026!
eseh.org/call-for-pro...
#EnvHist

Global #EnvHist community, don't miss our Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article that contributes to global environmental history, focusing on comparisons and connections between different parts of the world or on areas outside mainstream scholarship in the field.
Deadline: 15 August 2026

Check out Claire Campbell's review of "Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives," published in 2025 by
@whitehorsepress.bsky.social; review now available
@hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climate
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

We've got a fascinating seminar coming up next week on embodied environmental histories of danger in Dartmoor! Join us at 2PM GMT next Tuesday (the 10th) for some dangerous discussions... #envhist #environmentalhistory #nationalparks #envhum #dartmoor #Devon

📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist

📧 Lev Centrih: lev.centrih@fhs.upr.si (Eastern and Southern Europe, Early Modern and Modern periods)

📧 Davide Cristoferi: davide.cristoferi@ulb.be (Western and Southern Europe, Antiquity, Medieval and Early Modern periods)

📧 Harm Zwarts: h.zwarts@rug.nl (Western and Northern Europe, Modern period)

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
- global food needs
- rural heritage
- management of natural resources
- productivity change in agriculture
- transfer of property
- rural organization.

Paper and panel proposal can be submitted via the link. You can contact the co-chairs here:

📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon, France
📅 21–24 April 2027
⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026
We will post more info below. #EnvHum

Bord Gáis advertisement titled "Putting Natural Gas to work for Ireland" that depicts an offshore drilling platform, gas cooker, electricity generating station, fertiliser spreader, and milk bulk tank as a network of industrial applications for Irish natural gas.

My PhD thesis 'Carrying Capacity: Nitrogen and the Intensification of Irish Pasture Systems, 1945-2007' is finally finally finally finalised!!

I'm very proud of it so if you're interested in Irish histories of industrialisation, the Nitrates Directive, natural […]

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖

press.museum.wales/news/rare-ro...

Our Director of Communications, Jonatan Palmblad, has written an entry on environmental history for the Speak4Nature project's Dictionary on Ecological Justice. #envhist

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist
@eseh.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social

I have a new article out in Environment and History on Deutsche Bank's role in reshaping the geography of water in Ottoman Anatolia. #envhist

Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project | Environment and History www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in March with Czechia and Slovakia
🗣️ Luděk Brož and Petr Jehlička (discussants), Doubravka Olšáková (chair)
📅 Date: 10 March 2026 (Tue), 15:00–17:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
eseh.org/envhistoday-... #envhist

Seems like a task for the global #EnvHist community: suggest talk series for ICEHO's new page! We nominate the new podcast "Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures" and the Edge Effects podcast!

@edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social
@futuremountain.bsky.social
@libbydeq.bsky.social

I’ll definitely be submitting a proposal for this! Fellow weather-y folk should take a look ✨

Want to learn about the history of organic farming in Andalusia? Keep an eye out for the book version Andreas Jünger's dissertation!
#EnvHist

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Are you from an 🇪🇺 country or 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭 interested in studying how humanities can help communicate and address environmental issues?

Registration is open now for our Master in Public Environmental Humanities!
Free tuition for our 2 year program in Stavanger, Norway.

www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Next Friday! Registration will be open until next Monday! #envhum #dh cc @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social @ukiedh.bsky.social

Poster showing a truck loaded with old clothes in India.

We are thrilled to announce that the ninth installment of our open-access online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live. It offers a dialogue on human nature and the origins of environmental degradation, taking inspiration from tradition and Indigenous practices.

springs-rcc.org

#envhum #envhist

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia
🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books
📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
eseh.org/envhistoday-...
#EnvHist #Envhum

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
eseh.org/call-for-con...
#EnvHist #EnvHum

European environmental history!