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Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.

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The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts - Inside Climate News As the country moves to intensify mining and oil operations, environmental and Indigenous leaders’ bank accounts are being frozen or closed. Such “debanking” cuts them off from financial support and p...

This is a really important @katiesurma.bsky.social piece on the strategic state silencing of land & water defenders in Ecuador—including colleagues of mine—as Noboa’s gov. moves to intensify mining & drilling (Trump playbook).
Please share widely.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...

10.03.2026 19:51 👍 47 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0

Good to be involved in this… a brilliant series. I learnt a lot.

23.06.2025 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Radium was initially considered a miraculous substance, health-giving… then its dangers became clear. The Radium Girls were among the first victims.

30.05.2025 07:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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VIDEO: Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Al Mughayyir rush to harvest what remains of the wheat crop they planted as Israeli settlers try to burn their fields. For days, settlers have been setting fire to the crop from a new settlement outpost on a mountain near the village

30.05.2025 05:04 👍 35 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 4

Looking forward to this event - the incomparable Stone Club!

25.05.2025 07:42 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Just finished this beautifully written book by @philipmarsden.bsky.social , a wonderful exploration of our relationship with metals and a tour around the mineral hotspots of Europe. Superb. 💙📚#booksky

18.04.2025 16:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden | Book review | The TLS

'Mining, metals and metallurgy have fired the imagination as much as they have modified the landscape.'

Louise Fabiani: A history of metal working and humanity

20.03.2025 16:27 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This is happening in one week! @philipmarsden.bsky.social at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in London on Thurs 20 March. He'll be talking about the remarkable UNDER A METAL SKY and the ticket includes a glass of wine/soft drink 🍷

www.stanfords.co.uk/event-under-...

13.03.2025 10:49 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Advance piece in the Big Issue about Under a Metal Sky - book is out on 13 Feb.

06.02.2025 07:09 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Just arrived in the Christmas post…publication 13 February

27.12.2024 12:50 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Two newly discovered stone circles on Dartmoor boost ‘sacred arc’ theory | Archaeology | The Guardian Archaeologist Alan Endacott says area may have been site of henge monument similar to ‘earlier phase of Stonehenge’

It comes as no surprise that Dartmoor should reveal more linked sacred sites like this - v exciting! amp.theguardian.com/science/2024...

15.11.2024 12:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0