Poul Holm
@poulholm.bsky.social
professor of environmental history, Trinity College Dublin: oceans past, marine environmental history, uses of the past
Cristina Brito reflects on 20 years of the Oceans Past Initiative in the latest OPI Newsletter pggmleq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijo.... The first OP conference was 24-27 Oct 2005 in Kolding, Denmark. So many good friends - a truly transformative event! @erc4oceans.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Cristina Brito reflects on 20 years of the Oceans Past Initiative in the latest OPI Newsletter pggmleq.clicks.mlsend.com/ty/c/eyJ2Ijo.... The first OP conference was 24-27 Oct 2005 in Kolding, Denmark. So many good friends - a truly transformative event! @erc4oceans.bsky.social
Researcher, do you know the Frascati Manual? It decides what really counts. And the mindset was fixed fifty years ago. This isn’t a conspiracy. The manual is the spreadsheet that weighs physics and art history, economics, engineering and philosophy open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
August 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Researcher, do you know the Frascati Manual? It decides what really counts. And the mindset was fixed fifty years ago. This isn’t a conspiracy. The manual is the spreadsheet that weighs physics and art history, economics, engineering and philosophy open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
Why did they not fish? - is a question often raised about the Irish famine of the 1840s. The short answer is they did. The long answer in the paper is about resilience and colonialism, see first comment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
Marine resource procurement as everyday resistance in Ireland during the Great Hunger (1845–1852) - Emily Schwalbe, Rory Connolly, Sophia Chapple, Poul Holm, 2025
This article seeks to challenge dominant narratives surrounding the Great Hunger in Ireland (An Gorta Mór, 1845–1852) by focusing on the often-overlooked aspect...
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July 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why did they not fish? - is a question often raised about the Irish famine of the 1840s. The short answer is they did. The long answer in the paper is about resilience and colonialism, see first comment (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Major reversal of human geography of west and east Denmark before and after Black Death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Major reversal of human geography of west and east Denmark before and after Black Death www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
March 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Calling all Danes+Brits interested in genetics+history: Danish and British biobanks of 858,635 modern individuals reveal migration history from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
My open access review of a great book rdcu.be/edXxx
Jeremy Mynott, The Story of Nature: A Human History
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March 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My open access review of a great book rdcu.be/edXxx
If you like 1000 piece puzzles, this is a great example, all brought nicely together. The collapse of this fishery is the single largest environmental disaster in ocean history. Some interesting points about how current policy uses historical data. open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
500 years of the once largest fishery in the world: A comprehensive catch reconstruction for the Newfoundland cod fishery (1508–2023)
In 2024, the Canadian government lifted the moratorium on fishing in what was once the world’s largest single-species fishery. Over the past thirty ye…
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March 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you like 1000 piece puzzles, this is a great example, all brought nicely together. The collapse of this fishery is the single largest environmental disaster in ocean history. Some interesting points about how current policy uses historical data. open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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For those interested in British and Irish military, commercial and other forms of migration into Scandinavia and Northern Europe, check out this biographical prosopography. Online and free since 1995.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne
🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy
Open to updates
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne
🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy
Open to updates
The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database
www.st-andrews.ac.uk
December 28, 2024 at 10:19 AM
For those interested in British and Irish military, commercial and other forms of migration into Scandinavia and Northern Europe, check out this biographical prosopography. Online and free since 1995.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne
🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy
Open to updates
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne
🗃 📚 #17thC #Skystorians #History #Genealogy
Open to updates
What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities? Open access paper presenting the UNESCO Bridges Consortium and the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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December 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
What Can the Public Humanities Learn about Impact from the Environmental Humanities? Open access paper presenting the UNESCO Bridges Consortium and the Oceans Past Initiative @oceanspast.bsky.social @erc4oceans.bsky.social
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The fish revolution - how humans thrived and the oceans shrank bit.ly/3HHMnSc
The Fish Revolution: how humans thrived and oceans shrank
Fish has long played a vital role in human societies, providing food security and economic growth. But when did fisheries begin to have a significant impact? Once in the late 1500s and again in the late 1700s, fisheries accelerated rapidly and brought food security to European and American societies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Additional Information ──────────────────────────── https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/faf.12598 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Social Media ──────────────────────────── https://twitter.com/TCEHTCD https://twitter.com/4oceanserc https://twitter.com/ERC_Research https://www.twitter.com/PoulHolm https://www.twitter.com/tcddublin https://www.twitter.com/patrick_hayes2 https://www.instagram.com/@MarineInst https://www.instagram.com/@4oceanserc https://www.instagram.com/@marineinstituteireland ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Science Animated ──────────────────────────── http://www.sciani.com/ https://twitter.com/Sci_Ani https://www.facebook.com/scianimation/ https://sciani.com/terms-conditions/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #oceans #humanities4theocean #fishrevolution ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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December 17, 2024 at 11:47 AM
The fish revolution - how humans thrived and the oceans shrank bit.ly/3HHMnSc
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This is our southern boundary. Yes, it’s a ditch, but it was dug ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED years ago.
It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.
It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.
November 19, 2024 at 7:42 AM
This is our southern boundary. Yes, it’s a ditch, but it was dug ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED years ago.
It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.
It marks the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent and the South Saxons (or Sussex as they like to call themselves now). It is still the border to this day.
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Very much enjoying @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social's talk Inexhaustible Seas: Fisheries Management in Scotland and the British Empire. Especially pleased to see an illustration of a Dutch haringbuis (herring-bus), which I've read about but never seen. #MaritimeHistory #Fishing #Scotland
November 19, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Very much enjoying @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social's talk Inexhaustible Seas: Fisheries Management in Scotland and the British Empire. Especially pleased to see an illustration of a Dutch haringbuis (herring-bus), which I've read about but never seen. #MaritimeHistory #Fishing #Scotland
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2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World at the University of Saskatchewan. Please share widely.
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World
Primary Purpose: This position is a Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by a generous private donation. The holder of the fellowship will be expected to e...
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November 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM
2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow (Elizabeth and Cecil Kent), History of Britain and the British World at the University of Saskatchewan. Please share widely.
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My #CoastalHistory colleague Joana Gaspar de Freitas has just published a peer reviewed monograph, _A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes_, Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781... #envhist 🗃️
A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes | Joana Gaspar de Frei
This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers,
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November 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
My #CoastalHistory colleague Joana Gaspar de Freitas has just published a peer reviewed monograph, _A Global Environmental History of Coastal Dunes_, Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781... #envhist 🗃️
My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 16, 2024 at 10:19 AM
My new paper Explaining major shifts in early-modern economies: the causes for the decline of the North Sea Fisheries of Southwest Denmark, 1537–1650 @eseh.bsky.social @openaccessarch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Historical plankton index - a 1200-year North Sea history uncovered journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… Historical Plankton Index estimates zooplankton abundance in the North Sea back to 800 CE
August 25, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Historical plankton index - a 1200-year North Sea history uncovered journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… Historical Plankton Index estimates zooplankton abundance in the North Sea back to 800 CE
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We examined historical information (e.g. maritime history, naturalists' accounts, recipes, nautical charts and newspapers) across the 13th–20th century for a wide range of species to document their long-term trajectories in Wales
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Century‐scale loss and change in the fishes and fisheries of a temperate marine ecosystem revealed by qualitative historical sources
Century-scale changes in principal fishery species, as revealed by rich qualitative historical sources. The plot shows the main species landed in four ports in northern Wales (Irish Sea, UK) in three...
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July 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
We examined historical information (e.g. maritime history, naturalists' accounts, recipes, nautical charts and newspapers) across the 13th–20th century for a wide range of species to document their long-term trajectories in Wales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Check out Patrick Hayes's review of Elisabeth Townsend's "Cod: A Global History," published in 2022 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #foodstudies #oceanhist #maritime 🐟
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August 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Check out Patrick Hayes's review of Elisabeth Townsend's "Cod: A Global History," published in 2022 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available on H-Net #envhist #envhum #foodstudies #oceanhist #maritime 🐟
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It is a great honor that my book „The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600–2019“ has won the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) John R. Lyman Book Award in the Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment category.
July 23, 2024 at 5:26 PM
It is a great honor that my book „The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600–2019“ has won the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) John R. Lyman Book Award in the Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and Environment category.