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Sabine Clarke
@sabineclarke.bsky.social
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Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
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York Minster looking fine this evening
York Minster is bathed in a rose coloured light with white clouds and a dark sky behind it
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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🏙️✨ The City of Today is a Dying Thing

Join us for a public lecture by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social (@ucc.ie ), exploring how cities, health + the environment intertwine — and what “green urbanism” really means.

📅 Mon 3 Nov | 🕔5–7pm
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟️ Book here➡️https://buff.ly/RvbkKuw
The City of Today is a Dying Thing - Des Fitzgerald
Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a talk by Des Fitzgerald about his book 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing
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October 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Why go interdisciplinary?🤔

Join us next Monday for Interdisciplinary Research: Back to Basics — exploring the why, how + what ifs of working across disciplines.

Led by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social, it’s a chance to reflect, share + rethink what collaboration really means.

🔗 buff.ly/2aZG2TX
Image is of different coloured dyes dropped in water, along with event details: Environment and Health Theme Event, Interdisciplinary Research: Back to Basics, Mon 3 November 2025, 1pm to 3pm, in-person, B/T/019, Biology Building, Campus West, Internal event
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.

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chapter 7 Liverpool’s Chinese Community: the Second World War, Exile, and Repatriation Andrew Williams The forced repatriation of Chinese seamen at the end of the Second World War from Liverpool, in Northwest England, was the subject of a long- form journalistic investigation in 2021, published in The Guardian newspaper.1 A few weeks later, Liverpool Labour mp Kim Johnson raised it in Parliament. She called on the Conservative government to launch an inquiry into the affair and to acknowledge that in the case of these men, and the families they left behind, ‘justice delayed’ was ‘justice denied.’2 In response, the Home Office – the department responsible for immigration – pledged to investigate the actions of its antecedents in conspiring to repatriate hundreds of Chinese men after Britain had defeated fascism in Europe and Asia. Liverpool’s Chinese community has always been centred in its Chinatown, which is claimed to be the oldest in Europe, although substantive historical investigations into this community are few and far between. Perhaps the best account has been written by Maria Lin Wong, whom in 1989 published a history based primarily on oral testimony.3 Gregory B. Lee, a Chinese studies scholar, has published other research, approaching the history of the community from a postcolonial studies perspective.4 Even fewer publications directly address the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen after the Second World War. Wong made only brief mention of it based on what she was told and would have been unable to explore it any further as the archival sources had not been released to the public at the time. John Belchem, in his valuable history of race relations in twentieth- century Liverpool, did provide an account of the repatriation, but..
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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So how was your weekend?
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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It was a real pleasure to write this afterword for a fantastic special issue on the history of invasive species by Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social and Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social
Invasive Species, Health, and Global History Afterword: The Disavowal of Human Agency
Abstract. The papers in this special issue explore the metaphorical realms that inform discourses on disruptive plants and animals. They explore how specie
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October 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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September 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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And there’s more good news 🌿✨

The YESI Fellows Scheme 2025/26 opens on Monday 8 September! If you’re a University of York researcher with ideas for tackling environmental sustainability challenges, this is your chance.

Details here 👉 buff.ly/W6IXpUe
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September 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Delighted that the University of York has been shortlisted for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership 🌍👏

Recognition for our pioneering YESI Fellows Initiative driving interdisciplinary, impact-led sustainability research.

Full shortlist👉 lstm.ac/3HZY0XE
THE Awards 2025
The THE Awards are the biggest celebration of UK and Irish higher education, recognising excellence across academia, professional services, leadership and management.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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By the River Foss in York
A black dog stands on the towpath by the River Foss with a bridge above him
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Ahem... my first acedemic article just went live on the BMJ/STI website.

What can 'hidden' cures in handwritten family recipe books tell us about how people dealt with STIs in the long 17th century?

doi.org/10.1136/sext...

#17thC #earlymodern
May 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu
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May 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A walk with the dog brings some quiet and his joy is my pleasure.
A black dog is running up the bank of a stream. His fur is shining and his ears are streaming backwards.
April 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🚨 Exciting news! @sabineclarke.bsky.social joins the YESI leadership team as co-lead for the Health and Environment Research Theme.

Sabine brings expertise in the history of science + medicine, focusing on global health and environment.

Welcome, Sabine! 🎉

Read more➡️ ow.ly/6c3250VzNLG
YESI appoints new Health and Environment Theme co-lead
The York Environmental Sustainability Institute YESI) is delighted to welcome Dr Sabine Clarke as the new co-lead for our Health and Environment Research Theme.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Introducing a new YESI Knowledge Exchange Fellows project, working with York Explore and other groups in the city, to explore ways of using local archives to produce new histories of environmental change.

➡️https://ow.ly/yM4950VyQWr

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April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I am co-organising a workshop (with Dr Isabel Davis) on 'Colonies, hives and queens: Insects and Imperialism' at the Natural History Musuem in London on Thursday the 3rd of April. There will be a set of flash talks on the theme in the morning. Teams link:
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March 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century

If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I had such a wonderful time being interviewed by students in the History Department at York for their amazing podcast series. Take a look! (Or indeed a "listen")
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March 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Alert! Deadline for this fantastic PhD opportunity is 2nd February!
sabineclarke.bsky.social Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social · Oct 18
Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.
LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting
Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
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January 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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⏰ Final Reminder!

The deadline for the BSHS Annual Conference 2025 CfP is TOMORROW! Submit your individual papers or sessions by Fri, 17 Jan 2025.

📍 When & Where:
8–10 July 2025, Cambridge

🌟 Open to researchers at all career stages & nationalities on any HSTM topic!

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Conference banner stating: 08 to 10 Jul 2025 | BSHS Conference in Cambridge, UK | Submit your abstracts now!
January 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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York, UK, at 9.30 this morning
January 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Isn’t this thistle head beautiful? Like the head of a medieval mace.
A large spiked dead thistle head. Looks like a medieval mace.
December 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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I'm excited to announce a PhD studentship, based at UofYork, exploring how land management in African savanna affects climate, past and present. I'm joined by the fabulous
Prof Colin Beale & @sabineclarke.bsky.social
to join historic delivery of ecosystem functions with future savanna management.
November 28, 2024 at 9:30 PM