In this blog, originally published as an ESEH Notepad in Environment and History, Chloé Vlassopoulos interviews Verena Winiwarter about the history of the European Society for Environmental History. Text edited by Roberta Biasillo, Jonatan Palmblad and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg. In 2019–2021, ESEH president Marco Armiero launched a new initiative: a history society should have … More Our Common Past: When it All Started for ESEH…

The White Horse Press was delighted to sponsor the Global Environment poster prize at the recent World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu. The winning entry by Silvia Lotman of Tallinn University was selected from the poster exhibition by judges Claudia Leal, an environmental historian of Latin America who is full professor at the Department … More WHP / Global Environment Poster Prize Winner – WCEH Oulu 2024

To mark the opening of the WCEH in Oulu, a truly global gathering of environmental historians, we are republishing José Augusto Pádua’s ICEHO essay from Global Environment (June 2024). Pádua reflects on Brazil’s momentous 2022 election – ‘a time for the historian to close the books and take to the streets’ to make a stand … More FACING ENVIRONMENTAL DENIALISM: LESSONS FROM THE BOLSONARO NIGHTMARE

In this blog, formerly published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2024), Iaroslav Golubinov explores the impact of World War One on the environment of the Eastern Front in Europe. The impact of war on the environment is undeniable. In the twentieth century, large and small conflicts have caused severe damage to nature, … More BURNED OIL RIGS AND CUT WOODS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT

In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2024), Ruby Ekkel investigates Superb lyrebird mimicry and its evolution due to environmental change and human intervention in their habitat. Here, the lyrebird is a multispecies historian, whose imitations provide mediated insights into the changing ecosystems of which it is part. On … More Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History

In this blog – a recent article in Plant Perspectives – Merve Ünsal describes the genesis and meaning of her sound art installation Into the Wind, which can be experienced here. While presenting Into the Wind at a climate emergency and gender conference in Gaziantep, Turkey in November 2023, I was approached by a woman who wanted … More INTO THE WIND: WRITING WITH A FIG TREE