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Encounters with the Sublime: On Doing Environmental History Outside the Office

June 12, 2026

In this blog Harrison Croft dons his ‘stout pair of boots’ and takes environmental history out of the office’ in a second response to Libby Robin’s essay in Global Environment’s new ICEHO series ‘Building Environmental History Around the World’. Margaret Cook’s response was published on 9 June 2026. The long and scorching summer is finally over. It’s March 2022 and I … More Encounters with the Sublime: On Doing Environmental History Outside the Office

An Environmental-History Pracademic: Starting to paddle in flooded waters

June 9, 2026

In this blog, the first of two responding to Libby Robin’s essay in Global Environment’s new ICEHO series ‘Building Environmental History Around the World’, Margaret Cook describes her trajectory to becoming an ‘environmental-history pracademic’. A second essay by Harry Croft will be published in the coming days. There is something about being in a different … More An Environmental-History Pracademic: Starting to paddle in flooded waters

Amsterdam, a city with two water problems

June 1, 2026

In this blog Milja van Tielhof introduces the subjects covered in more detail in her just-published Open Access paper in Environment and History, ‘Building Cisterns to Buffer Water Scarcity. The Road to Public Responsibility for Drinking Water in Amsterdam, 1670–1790’ (online first May 2026). Amsterdam, with its elegant patrician houses, beautiful churches and tree-lined canals, … More Amsterdam, a city with two water problems

From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University

May 26, 2026

In this blog Santiago Gorostiza, Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and José María Sánchez Laforet synthesise the contribution of their recent Open Access article in Environment and History (online first May 2025), The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956). Upon entering the hall of the Faculty of … More From Trenches to Trees: Rebuilding Madrid’s War-Torn University

Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory

May 20, 2026

In this blog Shelley Kolstad evokes the sensory and embodied experience of the fieldwork site that inspired her article in Plant Perspectives (online first May 2026), ‘Between the “Outlier” and “the Dead”: Ethnographic and Phenomenological Encounters with a Mangrove Community’. In January this year I returned to the Daintree to visit the mangroves that are … More Embodied perspectives from red mangrove territory

What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital

April 22, 2026

In today’s blog, Pedro Pablo Achondo Moya introduces his article just published in Plant Perspectives (21 April 2026, online first) ‘The Power of a Small Herb: The Case of Huacatay in the Community Garden of the Limache Hospital’, encouraging us to look more closely at, think more carefully about, the seemingly insignificant ‘small plants’ that … More What Can a Small Herb Do? Huacatay and the Quiet Redesign of a Chilean Hospital

The Environments of History: An Account by a Human Organism

March 24, 2026

This essay by Jonatan Palmblad is the first in a series co-published with ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians whose reflections on the field are featured in Global Environment. Jonatan responds to here to Sverker Sörlin’s ‘Staying Open – Shaping Environmental History in Sweden’, published in Global Environment in … More The Environments of History: An Account by a Human Organism

Plant Perspectives – meet the new editor!

March 17, 2026

Today we at the White Horse Press announce a change to the editorship of Plant Perspectives. Issue 3.1 (published last week) marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor. We are hugely grateful to John for all his work in establishing Plant Perspectives and bringing it to the prominent position it already occupies in the field. While we are … More Plant Perspectives – meet the new editor!

Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in nineteenth and twentieth century Rural Poland

March 10, 2026

In this blog, originally published as a Snapshot in Environment and History (November 2025), Robert Piotrowski explores ‘the impact of economic, environmental and military crises (such as deforestation, war damage and inflation) on changes in the choice of building materials’ in the Plock Mazovian Region of Poland. The Plock Mazovian Region is a historical-ethnographic region … More Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in nineteenth and twentieth century Rural Poland

The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area

February 17, 2026

In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Administration of Almeirim and Sustainable Land Use from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century’, Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada aim to shed light on the history of the royal … More The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area