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Matthew Hannaford
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Geographer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based in Nottingham, via 🇳🇱 and 🇿🇦 | Environmental history, climate adaptation, African history, disasters, Derby County | Views are my own
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🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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New reviews!

• Fiona Williamson on Simon Naylor’s ‘The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain & Its Empire’
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.003

• Matthew J. Hannaford on Sara J. Grossman’s ‘Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data & Settler Colonialism...’
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.010
March 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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In my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social, I'm editing a series of blog posts on "Historicizing Adaptation." Submissions pertaining to all time periods and parts of the world are welcome. Deadline for proposals is 29 November. See the link for more information and reach out to me with any questions.
Call for Submissions: Historicizing Adaptation
Authors are particularly invited to consider how adaptation has functioned alongside resistance, potentially serving as a technique of refusal, rebellion, or resurgence.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2024 at 3:04 PM
The Department of Geography at my institution is hiring a Lecturer in Human Geography, fixed-term, 4 years, 0.8 FTE.

Particular focus on historical geography/environmental history, and one or more aspects of global inequalities.

jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
October 14, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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UPDATE (October 10, 3:36am PT) on the DDOS attack on Internet Archive. We will share more as we know it.
October 10, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Excited to share the advert for the first of three new #envhist postdocs!

Three-year position focusing on climate history and climate coloniality in Zimbabwe, working with a team of geographers and historians:

jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Posts focusing on Malawi and Mozambique to follow.
Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Environmental History of Zimbabwe
jobs.lincoln.ac.uk
September 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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In the wake of the World Congress, we have created a "starter pack" for environmental history. Please share, and let us know if you would like us to add you to the list.

#EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory
September 3, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Back from the wonderful #wceh2024. Lots more panel recordings to catch up on over the coming weeks!
August 23, 2024 at 11:13 AM