Marianna Dudley
@dudleymarianna.bsky.social
Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
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Hey @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, your book came for the Greenhouse Library today! You need to sign it when you’re here!
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, your book came for the Greenhouse Library today! You need to sign it when you’re here!
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
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Listening to some world-famous "climate leaders" and I’m absolutely exhausted by how we’ve strapped ourselves inside a careening plane made up of neoliberal climate solutions. Basically, they’d rather we die than divorce capitalism. The parallels w the Democratic party could not be more obvious.
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Listening to some world-famous "climate leaders" and I’m absolutely exhausted by how we’ve strapped ourselves inside a careening plane made up of neoliberal climate solutions. Basically, they’d rather we die than divorce capitalism. The parallels w the Democratic party could not be more obvious.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University. #ukhe
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Please consider donating to the Lancaster UCU Hardship Fund as we prepare to go on strike next week against the threat of compulsory redundancies at Lancaster University. #ukhe
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/lan...
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
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OMG. Apple is Catholic.
In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
OMG. Apple is Catholic.
Lovely to be featured by the All Your Yesterdays site. Thanks for the chance to discuss the book!
Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Lovely to be featured by the All Your Yesterdays site. Thanks for the chance to discuss the book!
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Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
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Journalists, why not reach out to some of the fine people in my replies to ask them how the British Library cyberattack of 2023 has had an impact on their research, their creative work, and their careers? This could make for a powerful piece revealing the human side to the damage this has done.
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Journalists, why not reach out to some of the fine people in my replies to ask them how the British Library cyberattack of 2023 has had an impact on their research, their creative work, and their careers? This could make for a powerful piece revealing the human side to the damage this has done.
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Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Energy Humanities and American History”
www.cambridge.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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If you are a PhD or MSc student interested in seasonal heat storage, then you need to know about the 2026 PUSH-IT Summer School.
Open to all students, whether from engineering, geology, or social science disciplines
Please pass on to your networks!
www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu/pre-registra...
Open to all students, whether from engineering, geology, or social science disciplines
Please pass on to your networks!
www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu/pre-registra...
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If you are a PhD or MSc student interested in seasonal heat storage, then you need to know about the 2026 PUSH-IT Summer School.
Open to all students, whether from engineering, geology, or social science disciplines
Please pass on to your networks!
www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu/pre-registra...
Open to all students, whether from engineering, geology, or social science disciplines
Please pass on to your networks!
www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu/pre-registra...
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
I'm looking forward to speaking about Electric Wind at the University of Oslo DynamiTE Seminar next Monday - 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM, GM452 if anyone wants to come along. I have a free day to explore Oslo - what should I do?
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking about Electric Wind at the University of Oslo DynamiTE Seminar next Monday - 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM, GM452 if anyone wants to come along. I have a free day to explore Oslo - what should I do?
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the hottest thing a white man can do is share his salary details — with a paper trail of evidence — with his female co-workers
Boils my piss when companies say this
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
the hottest thing a white man can do is share his salary details — with a paper trail of evidence — with his female co-workers
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Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
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Oxford has a beautiful, grand, new humanities building and a copyright library; we serve local kids in a leaky building and have our jobs threatened every year. The fact we publish alongside one another is remarkable
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Oxford has a beautiful, grand, new humanities building and a copyright library; we serve local kids in a leaky building and have our jobs threatened every year. The fact we publish alongside one another is remarkable
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Delivering my paper in Oxford was a delight, but it was also a reminder that the contexts in which we price work are profoundly unequal. How is my department supposed to produce comparable work when our physical, social, and cultural environment is so depleted? There are buckets in the hallways!
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Delivering my paper in Oxford was a delight, but it was also a reminder that the contexts in which we price work are profoundly unequal. How is my department supposed to produce comparable work when our physical, social, and cultural environment is so depleted? There are buckets in the hallways!
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As the world gathers in Belém for #COP30, Electric Wind by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social traces the human stories behind one of our most enduring renewable energy sources: wind🌬️
From rural experiments to offshore power, discover how the past can guide the future of climate action.
#WindPower
From rural experiments to offshore power, discover how the past can guide the future of climate action.
#WindPower
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
As the world gathers in Belém for #COP30, Electric Wind by @dudleymarianna.bsky.social traces the human stories behind one of our most enduring renewable energy sources: wind🌬️
From rural experiments to offshore power, discover how the past can guide the future of climate action.
#WindPower
From rural experiments to offshore power, discover how the past can guide the future of climate action.
#WindPower
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My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year.
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class : Gibbs, Ewan: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year.
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8