Historian. On rivers, water, energy, the Thames, environment 💦🌍
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
8 Jun 2023
Heard about the 18th century Ottoman gravestone recently found in Greenwich? Come and discover three centuries of shared history.
Ottoman Journeys: Life and Afterlife in Greenwich. Free exhibition, London, SE7.
Info here bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/r…
@greenwichherit @CharltonHouseGW
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13 Apr 2022
Come to Greenwich @UoGHistorians on 26 May (5.45pm) to hear @GuidaMichael talk about his new book 'Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio and Modern Life, 1914' (OUP). Book your free ticket here listening_to_british_nature.…
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
5 Apr 2021
Piles of dumped WW2 blitz rubble dumped on Hackney Marshes raising level from sea level to many feet above
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
5 Feb 2021
young boy in rubble 1986
in the ruins of tibberton swimming baths
greenman street
islington
1986
©chris dorley-brown
see here for how it was:
flickr.com/photos/chrisdb1/6… #flickr flic.kr/p/aSgdQV
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
5 Feb 2021
disused pool 1986
the small "mothers" pool
tibberton baths
greenman street
london
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©chris dorley-brown#flickr flic.kr/p/bnSfwp
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15 Jul 2021
Delighted that this #WomenEnergy history is published today. Available from Blackwells in hardback now and for pre-order in paperback (ready 31 July) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pr…
11 Jun 2021
What exciting news for a Friday night. Thank you @McGillQueensUP and thank you to our amazing contributors. From workshop @CarsonCenter to book, this has been such a great journey with Ruth Sandwell @fabulierend @ProfKarenSayer @_sorcha, @ThamesGov @untamed__shrew & Graeme Gooday
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9 Jul 2021
Late to the party but so glad this is happening next week: publication of this new history of women and energy. A pleasure and honour collaborating with these wonderful editors and colleagues. #InANewLight 15.07.21
11 Jun 2021
What exciting news for a Friday night. Thank you @McGillQueensUP and thank you to our amazing contributors. From workshop @CarsonCenter to book, this has been such a great journey with Ruth Sandwell @fabulierend @ProfKarenSayer @_sorcha, @ThamesGov @untamed__shrew & Graeme Gooday
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
7 Oct 2020
"All Water Has a Memory": conference on River History organized by @CUHistoryDept grad student @materialhistory. Details below!
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
19 Aug 2020
This is just about the only legislation protecting rivers
1. Why "flag" this to business leaders?
2. A river doesn't need several ecological problems to kill it. One will do.
3. Do we want to lower the standards by which our rivers are judged?
theguardian.com/environment/…
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10 Aug 2020
'The Amazon is the vagina of the world': why women are key to saving Brazil's forests theguardian.com/environment/…
Vanessa Taylor retweeted
28 Jul 2020
We are thrilled to announce that the first 2020 issue of RCC’s Perspectives is now online! “Women and Energy” brings together largely untold stories that demonstrate the key roles of women in energy transitions. #enhum #envhist #gender #energy tinyurl.com/y3q6mju6
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29 Jul 2020
Thanks so much @untamed__shrew and all these collaborators at the Women & Energy @CarsonCenter Workshop.
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23 Jul 2020
Congratulations to our graduating historians. So proud! See you in person before too long, I hope.
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
FSBI 2021 Symposium: Fish, Fisheries and Ecosystems in the Anthropocene on July 5-9, 2021 in Leuven, Belgium will be having Dr Daniel Pauly as one of the guest speakers. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/FSBI2021SymposiumSpea…
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
9 Jul 2020
We are heading back to the Miocene. Atmospheric CO2 is approaching levels that no hominid has ever experienced theguardian.com/environment/…
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🚨 one week left for members to apply for a paid position on UCU's first member-led task group on sexual violence in tertiary education 🚨
we're keen to hear from members with all sorts of experience & expertise.
Unsure about applying? Apply anyway!
ucu.org.uk/article/10812/Sex…
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
5 Jul 2020
1/20 Going to try a @Twitter lecture. I want to present some work in progress from the @waternames’s project: ‘What do Anglo-Saxon charter bounds reveal about the physical & changing nature of English rivers in the early medieval period?’ This is me!
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Vanessa Taylor retweeted
2 Jul 2020
#job Lecturer in Colonial / Postcolonial British History Education jobs.ac.uk/job/CAN993/lectur…
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