@WouldAlice

Environmental Historian @BristolUni. animals, senses, skin, taxidermy, temporality, empire, museums. she/her.

 Bristol, England
Joined October 2017
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Popping up from the twitter abyss to plug mine and Andy Flack's new article. Check it out if you're interested in disability history, animal history, history of science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

MISFITS, POWER, AND HISTORY: RETHINKING ABILITY THROUGH AN ANIMAL LENS

In this article, we construct a critical history of “ability” by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of...

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Articles are like buses: here is another of mine and Andy Flack’s. This one considers the relationship between animal and human senses - and whether scientific investigations tell us more about the human sensorium and imagination than they do the nonhuman liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Cen...

In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth through to the early...

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Case studies are bats and, my personal fave, the star-nosed mole
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Earthquakes can slow down your sense of time! Find out why this matters for historians in my new article in @PastPresentSoc. Thoughts on present day implications coming soon. academic.oup.com/past/articl… @UCLIRDR

Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950*

Abstract. Scholarship on historical temporality has explored what time meant to people in the past. Going further, how did historical actors’ perception of

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Funny how some of the big voices around climate catastrophe and planet extinction seem to have very little to say about another unfolding catastrophe & national extinction. Again leading to the conclusion that there's alarm only if the West is threatened in any way.
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Hello Twitter mind (x mind? Urgh) I’m looking for examples of public facing projects related to the health/ medical humanities with at least one historian involved. For public history teaching. Bonus points for creative outputs. Things like the fab sensing spaces of healthcare
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@Thinkwert21 Dec 2023
Every day of the last six months, the nights have gotten longer. This is because the crows are nibbling away at the sun. At sunset today, it will be so small that a crow will swallow it whole and there will never be a day again. Please spend today with the ones you love.
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Martin Booth@beardedjourno21 Nov 2023
This is the same house. Don’t you just love Bristol’s topography?
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Noreen Masud@NoreenMasud12 Nov 2023
More recs for action via @ProfMadhuK If you’re in the UK: please write to your MP If you’re international: please write to the VC of Bristol Uni Evelyn Welch asking her to ask the uni to intervene (so far to my knowledge she has not replied to staff emails about this)
Noreen Masud@NoreenMasud12 Nov 2023
The more international attention the case gets, the more likely the HO is to overturn it - please share if you can, international friends and colleagues
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We're horrified to hear that our brilliant, dedicated colleague Dr Doseline Kiguru has been denied a UK visa for her six-year-old daughter. Doseline's a fantastic teacher - many of our followers will have benefitted from her guidance. Please spread the word 🙏
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Vivian Kong@viviankonghk30 Oct 2023
Really excited that my book with @cambUP_History @CambridgeUP, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45, will be out this Thursday on 2 November! Here's a glimpse of the contents page :) Order here: cambridge.org/gb/universityp… #hongkonghistory #hkhist #香港史
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Sheila Liming@seeshespeak20 Oct 2023
I’m trying to write and my writing nook is perfection itself but also LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING OUTSIDE?
Writing nook: window, desk, chair, coffee, etc.

ALT Writing nook: window, desk, chair, coffee, etc.

Autumnal splendor under gray, misty skies

ALT Autumnal splendor under gray, misty skies

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ESEH@esehtweets31 Aug 2023
👏The Tallinn Prize Committee and @esehnextgate received wonderful PhD theses in European #envhist Congratulations to the winner @WouldAlice , the finalists Önder Eren Akgül, Lisa Cronjäger, Wout Saelens and all the other submissions eseh.org/2023-tallinn-disser…
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Had a super time at #eseh2023 at some wonderful and creative events (@dr_hick @DrAFlint and @SarahBell85 thank you for the early morning song fest), with friends new and old, and incredible swimming…
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… I was also so very pleased to be awarded the Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History. Thanks to all who have helped and advised along the way! @esehtweets @esehnextgate
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Celebrate the new nature memoir LATE LIGHT by our own Michael Malay with a nature walk! Dr Malay will lead a group from Toppings in Bath from 9.30am on 27 August - get your ticket here toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ba…
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Completely obsessed with this advert from 1861 that uses the controversy over Darwin's recent publication to sell some watches.
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Dr Lee Raye@LeafyHistory18 Jul 2023
I'm just ever so excited to announce that today is release day! My book is now officially out!🙀💚 THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland between 1519-1772 CE. I've found some astonishing records!! 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐
Book cover on a snowy background with eagle faded in: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, by Lee Raye, from Pelagic Publishing. The cover has a wolf on it

ALT Book cover on a snowy background with eagle faded in: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, by Lee Raye, from Pelagic Publishing. The cover has a wolf on it

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