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Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how early illustrations of icebergs and glaciers testify to the dramatic impacts of climate change over the centuries. A23a is on the move again. This iceberg has been drifting … More Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
In this blog, Claudia Leal contextualises her new article in Environment and History, Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs (online first October 2025), which aims to contribute to the broader history of human–dog relationships from a new perspective, that of ‘the tropical Andes, rather than the cradle of empire’. Last night, I woke up at 3:30 … More Do the vast majority of world dogs – past and present – have a place in history?
In this blog, Chris Halsted contextualises his new article in Environment and History(online first December 2025), ‘Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve’, an article he admits it made no sense for him to start writing but which became a ‘letter to the sublime and beautiful weirdness of the … More Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve
This blog, exploring ‘how the plastic bag became an iconic symbol of environmental degradation’, republishes a Snapshot by Nils Johansson, originally published in Environment and History (August 2025). The plastic bag is a mundane consumer product. It consists of just one inexpensive material, intended to carry other, more important, items. It is one of those … More THE PLASTIC BAG: FROM A MUNDANE SWEDISH INNOVATION TO THE WORLD’S OCEANS
This blog post was published as part of a Special Section in tribute to Jeremy Swift in Nomadic Peoples 29.2 (September 2025) and offers a collection of personal tributes to this renowned anthropologist. You can read a previously unpublished research memoir by Jeremy and find a full bibliography of his works in the journal issue … More JEREMY J. SWIFT (1939–2024)
Reblog of Nancy Lindsfarne’s post about her and Richard Tapper’s new book, a lavish photographic collection, The Piruzai of Afghanistan, published in association with the White Horse Press and available to buy from our shop.
In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker explores how plants can provide a way in to a landscape. Through plants, she learned ‘to trust my own observations, the relationships I am entangled in, entering … More Plants as a Way In
We much enjoyed supporting the ESEH poster prize at the conference in Uppsala last month. Johannes Ellingsen’s striking poster, which was awarded second prize, impressed the judges with its vibrant colour scheme reflecting the subject and its integration of text into the design in just the right quantity for clarity and impact. A good poster … More ESEH / WHITE HORSE PRESS POSTER PRIZE 2025 – RUNNER-UP
In this blog to accompany her just-published article ‘The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000’ in Environment and History Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen interrogates the history of the ‘Ecological Indian’ trope and the surrounding debate, which highlights the broader question of the legitimacy of Indigenous … More The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000
In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment (June 2025), Alexandra Vlachos introduces the University of Bern’s Master’s programme in Sustainability Transformations: Shaping the change for desirable futures which seeks to open creative space for thoughtful experimentation fostering sustainability transformations.Vlachos concludes ‘We need solid and brave ideas to achieve a more sustainable … More SHAPING CHANGE FOR DESIRABLE FUTURES
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