Jonathan Westaway
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
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"Climbers wanted her approval more than a certificate. Messner called her 'the only authority' on Himalayan records." ✅
Nice tribute to the founder of the Himalayan Database, Elizabeth Hawley 🏔️
explorersweb.com/remembering-...
Nice tribute to the founder of the Himalayan Database, Elizabeth Hawley 🏔️
explorersweb.com/remembering-...
Remembering Elizabeth Hawley, the Sherlock Holmes of Himalayan Summits » Explorersweb
For over 50 years, Elizabeth Hawley documented Himalayan expeditions. We commemorate her birthday by revisiting some of her important investigations.
explorersweb.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Climbers wanted her approval more than a certificate. Messner called her 'the only authority' on Himalayan records." ✅
Nice tribute to the founder of the Himalayan Database, Elizabeth Hawley 🏔️
explorersweb.com/remembering-...
Nice tribute to the founder of the Himalayan Database, Elizabeth Hawley 🏔️
explorersweb.com/remembering-...
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The British Academy invite applications for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme encourages research on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia: https://bit.ly/488Axh7
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The British Academy invite applications for the Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund 2026. The scheme encourages research on the antiquities, historical geography, early history or arts in parts of Asia: https://bit.ly/488Axh7
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“Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from #Tibet” By Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social Available for Preorder @dukepress.bsky.social
Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026!
Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...
Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026!
Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...
“Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet” By Tsering Woeser Available for Preorder
We are delighted to share that “Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet” by Tsering Woeser, translated and edited by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba (Du…
highpeakspureearth.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from #Tibet” By Tsering Woeser @woeser.bsky.social Available for Preorder @dukepress.bsky.social
Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026!
Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...
Beautiful cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, foreword by Pankaj Mishra. Publication date Feb 10, 2026!
Info: highpeakspureearth.com/ocean-as-muc...
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social is photographic portraiture for the #PhotoPortraitPrize at the NPG
We've chosen this #photograph of Josef Willisch - an ice axe smith who made axes for Robert Lawrie and the 1924 #Everest expedition. Taken by Christine L Reid in 1933.
We've chosen this #photograph of Josef Willisch - an ice axe smith who made axes for Robert Lawrie and the 1924 #Everest expedition. Taken by Christine L Reid in 1933.
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social is photographic portraiture for the #PhotoPortraitPrize at the NPG
We've chosen this #photograph of Josef Willisch - an ice axe smith who made axes for Robert Lawrie and the 1924 #Everest expedition. Taken by Christine L Reid in 1933.
We've chosen this #photograph of Josef Willisch - an ice axe smith who made axes for Robert Lawrie and the 1924 #Everest expedition. Taken by Christine L Reid in 1933.
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'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
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Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Upcoming workshop on spirituality at Kyudai this Friday
For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)
For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Upcoming workshop on spirituality at Kyudai this Friday
For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)
For those in the area, let me know if you’d like to join us (sorry, in-person only)
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Read "Microhistory: Silence as Possibility," made freely available for three months: buff.ly/j21EQeF
Microhistory | Romanic Review | Duke University Press
Max S. Hering Torres, Rosario Casas Dupuy; Microhistory: Silence as Possibility. Romanic Review 1 September 2025; 116 (2): 274–296. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-12120799
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Read "Microhistory: Silence as Possibility," made freely available for three months: buff.ly/j21EQeF
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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Join us for an evening of conversation with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner.
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
The Cosmic Oval: Ella Finer and Marina Warner in Conversation
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warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Join us for an evening of conversation with writer Ella Finer and eminent, writer, mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner.
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
Exploring feminist cosmologies, Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House + more.
Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📍 Warburg Institute | Free
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Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
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But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies)
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025
Dr Lewis Bremner
The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
But first it's Dr Lewis Bremner's turn, next Tuesday (hosted jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies)
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
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Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....
One of the strangest figures in Everest history, Henry Todd, has passed away in a Kathmandu hospital.
The article doesn't mention his earlier career as a manufacturer of LSD (google Operation Julie for more). He later became an Everest expedition pioneer. RIP ➕
thetourismtimes.com/news/t3-spec...
The article doesn't mention his earlier career as a manufacturer of LSD (google Operation Julie for more). He later became an Everest expedition pioneer. RIP ➕
thetourismtimes.com/news/t3-spec...
British mountaineer Henry Todd dies at 80
Henry B Todd, a veteran British mountain outfitter, has died at the age of 80 while undergoing treatment in Kathmandu.
thetourismtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....
Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....
One of the strangest figures in Everest history, Henry Todd, has passed away in a Kathmandu hospital.
The article doesn't mention his earlier career as a manufacturer of LSD (google Operation Julie for more). He later became an Everest expedition pioneer. RIP ➕
thetourismtimes.com/news/t3-spec...
The article doesn't mention his earlier career as a manufacturer of LSD (google Operation Julie for more). He later became an Everest expedition pioneer. RIP ➕
thetourismtimes.com/news/t3-spec...
British mountaineer Henry Todd dies at 80
Henry B Todd, a veteran British mountain outfitter, has died at the age of 80 while undergoing treatment in Kathmandu.
thetourismtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Looking forward to the obituary in Outside magazine....
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Today we have "The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals" by Anatole Danto
This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t...
#envhist
This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t...
#envhist
The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals
René-Yves Creston combined art and ethnology to document Arctic life in the 1930s, capturing cultural change and early modernization.
niche-canada.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today we have "The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals" by Anatole Danto
This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t...
#envhist
This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t...
#envhist
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📚TODAY📚
Join this free online event with The Marxist Education Project to learn about Mitch Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
🗓️Sat, Nov 1
⏰2 pm EST
marxedproject.org/event/serge-...
Join this free online event with The Marxist Education Project to learn about Mitch Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
🗓️Sat, Nov 1
⏰2 pm EST
marxedproject.org/event/serge-...
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📚TODAY📚
Join this free online event with The Marxist Education Project to learn about Mitch Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
🗓️Sat, Nov 1
⏰2 pm EST
marxedproject.org/event/serge-...
Join this free online event with The Marxist Education Project to learn about Mitch Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
🗓️Sat, Nov 1
⏰2 pm EST
marxedproject.org/event/serge-...
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Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...
Stronsay’s Kelp Riots
By Bill Miller and first published in The Stronsay Limpet. Republished here with kind permission. Stronsay has been associated with kelp making for centuries, and in fact James Fea of Whitehall , S…
theorkneynews.scot
November 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Stronsay's Kelp Riots theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/01/s...
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David Graeber, sorely missed, was a friend of Treadwell's - we invite you to look at the events in his legacy.
We'll hold a public talk with Tim Ingold, on Nov 6th (6pm London time)
The topic will be - Sharing time: the work of art in a possible.
The talk will be streamed live on the DGI Youtube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe & the notification when we go live.
davidgraeber.institute/public-talk-...
The topic will be - Sharing time: the work of art in a possible.
The talk will be streamed live on the DGI Youtube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe & the notification when we go live.
davidgraeber.institute/public-talk-...
Public talk : Sharing time: the work of art in a possible World -Tim Ingold
David Graeber Institute “In the world of possibilities, every work begins with an idea in mind, and ends in its realisation. This is work that cuts across. But the creativity of
davidgraeber.institute
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
David Graeber, sorely missed, was a friend of Treadwell's - we invite you to look at the events in his legacy.
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We've long anticipated Mitch Abidor's book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, coming out next month. Mitch will be discussing Serge, "an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions" tomorrow at 2pm on Zoom with Jacob Plitman.
Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, with Mitchell Abidor - Marxist Education Project
Join us for a conversation with Mitchell Abidor, author of the forthcoming book, "Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary." Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Victor Serge is highly esteemed...
marxedproject.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We've long anticipated Mitch Abidor's book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, coming out next month. Mitch will be discussing Serge, "an unruly revolutionary of both great courage and contradictions" tomorrow at 2pm on Zoom with Jacob Plitman.
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My piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies - Volume 140 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies
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How did elves and fairies become a firmly established part of Western popular culture?
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty...
#folklore #folklorethursday
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty...
#folklore #folklorethursday
Cute Cruelty: Approaching Fairy Lore - Yale University Press London
Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies are a firmly established part of Western popular culture, from J. R. R. Tolkien’s warlike Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, el...
yalebooks.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
How did elves and fairies become a firmly established part of Western popular culture?
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty...
#folklore #folklorethursday
Matthias Egeler, author of Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, introduces and explores these mythical creatures.
yalebooks.co.uk/cute-cruelty...
#folklore #folklorethursday
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#OTD 139 years ago:
Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals).
Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:
Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals).
Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#OTD 139 years ago:
Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals).
Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:
Dundonians lined the banks of the Tay to watch young Inuit man, Urio Etwango, demonstrate hunting techniques from his kayak (wooden crates serving as seals).
Usually, I'd share my article on him, but this week Greenland historian, Kenn Harper, has more properly told the story:
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...