Permanent post in the history of the Middle East after 1800 at York!
Plus three fixed term posts
1) Medieval History 1100-1450
2) Modern China
3) Britain/Public History
Congratulations Katrina!
There is still time to register for tomorrow's seminar: Yunting Gu (28th Jan, 3-4, CET) Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti...
#skystorians #envhist #museums
Super excited about presenting my 🌱paper!!! Thank you Instructing Colonial Natural History!!! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social 🌿😊 🤩🙏
Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic?
It highlights how instructions for identifying and shipping specimens enabled, and limited, knowledge across continents, and how Asian sources intersected with European taxonomy. #histsci #collecting
Focusing on figures such as John Ellis, Philip Miller, and Carl Linnaeus, it will show how economic ambition, visual evidence, written testimony, and institutional authority shaped botanical knowledge.
As lacquer was a valuable export from China and Japan, European naturalists asked whether it could be cultivated in colonial America to reduce reliance on Asian imports.
The talk explores an 18th-century scientific controversy over the identity of the lacquer (varnish) tree, a debate that connected Asia, Europe, and North America through texts, images, and plant specimens.
Seminar on colonial instructinons by Yunting Gu 28th of Jan, 3-4, CET (Zoom): Disputing the lacquer tree: Visual Evidence and Global Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Zoom link: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se, Welcome! instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/yunti...
#skystorians #envhist #museums
Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist
Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS
There is currently 30% off selected 18th-c history titles by Yale University Press, including Race and the Scottish Enlightenment.
Mycket bra!
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The talk is part of the Instructing Natural History Program at Uppsala University. For more information about our activities please see: instructingnaturalhistory.com #histsci #skystorians #museums #collections #bookhistory
Anna is a researcher at Uppsala Uni. With a focus on materiality and practice, her research explores different perspectives on the history of botanical collections. She is currently employed at the Botanical Dep. of the Natural History Museum to work with the historical & miscellaneous collections.
This talk teases out the different meanings and uses of ’book’ in relation to interconnected historical collecting practices and formats (the herbarium/hortus siccus, inter-referencing, interfoliation, etc.), seeking to bring some clarity to their place in current historiographical discussions.
Instructions to travellers to collect plants in books, match both archival references to the practice and the widespread occurrence of pressed plants in early modern books. These instructions also echo early instructions of how to make a herbarium.
Although this is relevant for the collection of any organism or object, the role of books as collecting tools is uniquely relevant to the collection of plants.
Books have been essential to the conception and pursuit of collecting at a global scale since the early modern period. This is evident in the rich and growing body of scholarship exploring the versatility of paper technologies, chains of reference, (im)mutable mobiles and correspondence networks
Book used as a collecting tool. Image is author's own.
Don't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
Uppsala Declaration
We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1
1/2 Historians of slavery & Empire have known all along that Lord Biggar’s & History Reclaimed’s interventions in these fields are wholly politically motivated, morally & logically inconsistent and founded on the cherry-picking rather than examination of evidence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The result? The symbolic annihilation of many marginalized communities, especially women whose contributions went unrecorded or unnamed. Ashley Aberg & Nicole will explore how institutions are working to surface women’s stories hidden in collections.
Historic natural history collections often reflect the values of the wealthy, educated men who created and controlled them. That legacy shaped what, and who, was documented.
Photographs of Isa Irmgard Degener (1924–2018), bequeathed to the NYBG in 2021 (courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden)
Join to learn how we can bring women’s voices forward—and reshape the story natural history collections tell. Today at 4-5 CET: “Not Mrs. Husband’s Name: Elevating Women’s Voices in Natural History Collections” by Archivists Ashley Aberg & Nicole Font (New York Botanical Garden).
A second book launch, this time at Uppsala University. Thanks to all who came and listened to @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I outline our next book - on humanity and the history of scientific instructions. It’s a tale of skull collections and the colonial history of ideas.
