Historian interested in science, technology, development and the 20th C British empire. Currently working on the global history of insecticides
Joined May 2012
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21 Sep 2018
An open access version of my book is now available on the MUP website through Manchester Open Hive
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Would you (or someone excellent you know) like to come do a funded history #PhD with me & @rebkwright on the 'Carbon Bodies' project?
Info on the project: wellcome.org/grant-funding/p…
PhD #JobAlert - findaphd.com/phds/project/an…
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Sabine Clarke retweeted
Do you want to make a real difference to biodiversity and wellbeing on small islands? Undertake interdisciplinary work on food waste management solutions in partnership with Isles of Scilly residents and businesses.
tinyurl.com/jnww65w8
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We're recruiting fully-funded (home fees) PhD studentships for a September 2025 start.
Interested in exploring the ways in which human activity enhances as well as diminishes biological diversity? Take a look at our projects from a range of disciplines: tinyurl.com/mtedknp9
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Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950
Discover how communities are made in science and how these functioned to produce knowledge of the diversity of British fungi in the early 20th century.
tinyurl.com/48c89ru9
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18 Oct 2024
Great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.
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22 Aug 2024
Do you have a fantastic MA student in environmental humanities, or the history of science, who would like the opportunity for a fully funded PhD? See here for a great opportunity at York to look at weeds and weeding .
york.ac.uk/anthropocene-biod…
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7 Jun 2024
A fantastic opportunity for a senior research fellow in any Arts and Humanities area related to biodiversity and the Anthropocene is available at the University of York. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese…
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6 Jun 2024
I wrote this piece on my grandpa and D-Day for @LRB 5 years ago. On the 80th anniversary, w/ Farage back spewing a rhetoric of nostalgia-based, anti-immigrant nativism, I thought it was worth reposting lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/june/we-…
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6 Jun 2024
Did you know that British troops were issued DDT-impregnated vests for D-Day as protection against lice? For more on Britain and insecticides in WWII see our article.
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5 Apr 2024
Apply and join us here in Edinburgh for a full-time, open ended lectureship in hsitory of medicine.
Happy to field any questions for this job.
Applications are due on 26 April.
5 Apr 2024
🚨🚨 Massive job klaxon 🚨🚨
We are advertising a full-time, open-ended lectureship in the history of modern medicine. Applications are due on 26 April.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions (details in the job description)
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jobs.ac.uk/job/DGY958/lectur…
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28 Mar 2024
Re-upping this for the evening crowd. All reposts much appreciated.
28 Mar 2024
REMINDER: I'm a freelance writer on modern UK & US politics and culture. I've edited two books and write a newsletter (link in bio). I work on topics inc. film, cities, war, diaspora, nostalgia & the environment. Want to commission me to write about those things? Get in touch!
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21 Mar 2024
Are you a Postgraduate interested in histories of science, technology, and medicine? Register now for the Annual British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference. Registration closes on 5 April 2024) pg-conference.bshs.org.uk/
@BSHSPostgrads @BSHSNews #BSHSPG24
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21 Mar 2024
We are excited to share that Sabine Clarke will be the keynote speaker! @archivemole When: 19-20 April 2024
Where: Zeeman Building, University of Warwick #postgrads
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14 Mar 2024
Is 'People's War' a useful concept in studying the British Second World War? A thread ...
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21 Feb 2024
The History Department at the University of York UK, is looking for a historian of South Asia for a permanent lectureship. Please spread the word! We are a great department with lovely colleagues
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect…
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23 Jan 2024
The History Department at the University of York is excited to launch a new PhD by Practice - a route for anyone with significant experience of public history practice or research in museums, archives, heritage organisations, the media or education.
york.ac.uk/history/study/pos…
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11 Dec 2023
Save Language, Translation & Interpreting degrees at the University of Aberdeen - Sign the Petition! chng.it/QfJvHGhj via @UKChange
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11 Dec 2023
Do you know a student interested in the construction of plants as weeds? Then please point them towards this funded-PhD "Plants in the Wrong Place? Weeds and weeding in Britain c.1500-c.1950" at LCAB at the University of York.
See here:
york.ac.uk/professorial-jobs…
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11 Dec 2023
Please advertise these fantastic PhD opportunities in the study of the anthropocene at the University of York!
📢8 Fully funded PhD Studentship opportunities available at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity!
@UniOfYork
Projects in a range of departments all linked by a common theme - Biodiversity Gains & Resilience
Apply here👇
york.ac.uk/professorial-jobs…
@LeverhulmeTrust
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6 Jul 2023
I’m doing a part time PhD on 20th century vocational education and looking for chemists to be interviewed or complete a questionnaire on how they entered the chemical industry. If anybody is interested can they please comment otherwise email me rns510@york.ac.uk #RoyalSocChem
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