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Simon Naylor
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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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Rachel Dishington @radishington.bsky.social · 1d
Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding.

Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River!
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...
Living and Working Along the Leen
Explore historical archival photos and share your own memories, to examine how Nottingham River Leen's meaning for local residents has shifted over time.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 10d
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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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 18d
In the past week I've taught 200+ first-year students in the "forgotten", "lost" map library at @uclgeography.bsky.social with the help of some great PGTAs.

Imagine what we could do with this collection if we could only find it! 🤔
A group of students working with maps in UCL's not-so-forgotten map library More students who have somehow found their way to the "forgotten" UCL map library I've been using for the last 25 years Oh look! Students enthusiastically discussing maps as part of their first year core course! Where's this, you say? UCL Geography map library! Goad maps, Booth maps, maps making a case for the EU as a rival to the US & USSR, maps galore at UCL Geography's map library - if only we knew how to find it! 🤔😭🫠

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · 24d
Looks amazing! What are you going to be playing??

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 17
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Sep 15
It's been very wet here in Scotland over the weekend but beautifully sunny for my morning run into work today.

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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · Sep 12
This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Sep 10
Not my game, I just like playing it and other @stonemaiergames.com! I am a Geography academic at Glasgow University and we're using games to encourage staff and students to think and talk about environmental issues.

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Sep 10
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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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · Sep 8
On strike again.

We’ve had to do this for so long that our primary school kids who joined us on snow day picket lines are now students themselves.

Utterly ridiculous way to run a university.
Five primary school kids and a snow man on freezing, snowy UCU picket line in February 2018, coincidentally the same month that Sir Peter Mathieson became Principal of Edinburgh University.

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Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · Aug 28
Super proud of this research group! HGRG at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in China!
Next stop of the ICHG will be Rio de Janeiro in 2028, save the date 🗓️🌎

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Aug 27
No RGS action then Innes?

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Matt McDowell @yorkhillyankee.bsky.social · Aug 20
On the archaeology of Scottish skateboarding.
Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists
A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · Aug 19
Here we go: the first session of our „energy transition & energyscapes” organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social & @dudleymarianna.bsky.social .
#ESEH2025 #EnergyHistory #EnvHist
Really excited about this.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Aug 4
I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️
Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social · Jan 10
The Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society will take place in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. If you’re interested in ‘Library Encounters’, whether it be campaigning, collaborating or creating, then do take a look at our session Call for Papers.

@hesterparr.bsky.social

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Jun 20
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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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Jun 16
Vol. 88 is out!

It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social

sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C

Take a look at the contents below 🧵

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Jun 15
PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Grace Wright @graceq22.bsky.social · Jun 6
Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!

Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · Jun 1
yikes!

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · May 31
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 · May 21
Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility is extraordinary. Partly set on Vancouver Island (partly on the Moon!) and I picked it up and read it while visiting the west coast a couple years ago.

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · May 10
who wouldn't want to be an attic genius?

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · May 8
We are running a 1-day workshop on historical geographies / environmental histories of water knowledge on Thursday 15 May. If you would like to attend online and haven't already signed up please contact me using the Contact link on the webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - Away from the Water - EventsSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · May 8
If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️
IAS Book Launch: Metropolitan Science
Join authors Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin for the launch of their book 'Metropolitan Science. London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800'
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social · May 1
Congratulations Dan - look forward to reading it.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Apr 22
‘I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants.’

@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
www.lrb.co.uk

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Apr 22
today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull until 2015, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
www.theguardian.com

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Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social · Mar 20
NEW: "Unseasonable seasons: Shifting geographies of weather and migration mobilities" out now in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Among growing attention to weather in geography, the seasons have been largely overlooked. Seasonal concerns underpin not only the weather, but also migration flows, tourism and trade, farming, and a...
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