Simon Naylor
@simonnaylor.bsky.social
Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.
Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another great geography-themed gaming session in our Creative Impact Lab. This time we played Pandemic: Rising Tide. Apologies Dutch friends, we failed to stop the sea!
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Following @greenhouseuis.net @finnarne.me excellent example and played Finspan board game in our new Creative Impact Lab today @uofglasgow.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com
Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.
June 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Beautiful plan of the proposed Forth & Clyde Canal in John Smeaton's 1767 Report to the Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.
Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers
May 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Lovely map of canals and their catchment basins from the 1907 Royal Commission on canals and navigable rivers
Great! My 5am taxi for 6.30 flight was clearly also hyper cautious. Then had 4 hrs in Oslo airport, where I found a place that made its pastries onsite, amazing.
December 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Great! My 5am taxi for 6.30 flight was clearly also hyper cautious. Then had 4 hrs in Oslo airport, where I found a place that made its pastries onsite, amazing.
Thank you to @bshsnews.bsky.social for featuring an extract from my new book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, in their Viewpoint magazine.
November 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Thank you to @bshsnews.bsky.social for featuring an extract from my new book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, in their Viewpoint magazine.
Rather pleased with my silver coin commemorating 40 years of China's polar scientific expeditions. Thanks to my PhD student, Xin Yang!
October 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Rather pleased with my silver coin commemorating 40 years of China's polar scientific expeditions. Thanks to my PhD student, Xin Yang!
Delighted to see The Observatory Experiment finally out in the real world. Available to buy from Cambridge University Press on 10 October. In the meantime, do join the book launch on 9 October! Register here: forms.office.com/e/GtfdghVJen
October 7, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Delighted to see The Observatory Experiment finally out in the real world. Available to buy from Cambridge University Press on 10 October. In the meantime, do join the book launch on 9 October! Register here: forms.office.com/e/GtfdghVJen
We are organising a session on the historical geographies of science at the ICHG 2025 conference in Shanghai and looking for a fifth contributor. Deadline is very tight - 30 September! If you are interested please get in touch.
September 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
We are organising a session on the historical geographies of science at the ICHG 2025 conference in Shanghai and looking for a fifth contributor. Deadline is very tight - 30 September! If you are interested please get in touch.
If you're in Glasgow and have nothing better to do / need to shelter from the autumn rain, you're very welcome to come to my book launch and inaugural lecture, 4-5pm on 9th October. Or join the livestream! Scan the QR code to register. Would be lovely to see you there.
September 18, 2024 at 10:50 AM
If you're in Glasgow and have nothing better to do / need to shelter from the autumn rain, you're very welcome to come to my book launch and inaugural lecture, 4-5pm on 9th October. Or join the livestream! Scan the QR code to register. Would be lovely to see you there.
If you're at the RGS-IBG conference this Friday, 30 August (9am in Royal School of Mines, just off Exhibition Rd), do please consider coming to our session, Mapping the Historical Geographies of Water Infrastructures, co-organised with Lawrence Dritsas.
August 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM
If you're at the RGS-IBG conference this Friday, 30 August (9am in Royal School of Mines, just off Exhibition Rd), do please consider coming to our session, Mapping the Historical Geographies of Water Infrastructures, co-organised with Lawrence Dritsas.
Do hope it’s okay to share the cover for my forthcoming book? I think it looks quite nice.
March 21, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Do hope it’s okay to share the cover for my forthcoming book? I think it looks quite nice.
Have reached the ‘what was I thinking when I said I’d do my own index?’ stage of my book’s life.
February 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Have reached the ‘what was I thinking when I said I’d do my own index?’ stage of my book’s life.
More than a little relieved to get revised ms off to CUP ahead of the Xmas break, even if it means I’ve one less reason not to get on with my marking…
December 21, 2023 at 2:02 PM
More than a little relieved to get revised ms off to CUP ahead of the Xmas break, even if it means I’ve one less reason not to get on with my marking…