Alice Would
@alicewould.bsky.social
Historian at University of Bristol. Environmental history, animals, skin, time, teaching. Finishing a book on taxidermy.
It primarily argues that taxidermy can tell us lots of cool stuff about time: the Western desire to ‘freeze’ nature, as relating to visions of progress, and the material processes of decay, aging and recycling that disrupt those imaginaries
July 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It primarily argues that taxidermy can tell us lots of cool stuff about time: the Western desire to ‘freeze’ nature, as relating to visions of progress, and the material processes of decay, aging and recycling that disrupt those imaginaries
The book tracks animal specimens (with a focus on skins) from British colonial hunting grounds, through transportation networks, via taxidermy studios and exhibitions to museums. It explores how - even when produced within systems of violence- skins remained ecosystems…
July 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The book tracks animal specimens (with a focus on skins) from British colonial hunting grounds, through transportation networks, via taxidermy studios and exhibitions to museums. It explores how - even when produced within systems of violence- skins remained ecosystems…
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Whoohoo so great to see it out in the world with great collaborators @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social Elaine LaFay #envhum #envhist #foodstudies #sensorystudies
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Whoohoo so great to see it out in the world with great collaborators @alicewould.bsky.social @lenaferriday.bsky.social @drandyflack.bsky.social Elaine LaFay #envhum #envhist #foodstudies #sensorystudies
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Andrew Flack and Alice Would on ‘Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations’, here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations | Environment and History
In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with
animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth
through to the early twenty-f...
www.doi.org
December 17, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Andrew Flack and Alice Would on ‘Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations’, here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist
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Funny thing, my gaffer was just talking to a tall stranger in a dark hooded cloak about this ring. The stranger was very rude.
January 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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