I've just written a blog about how historians - environmental historians in particular - can support the work of the National Archives User Advisory Group @ihr_history @UKNatArchives @UKNatArcRes

Exhibition: 'Soil', at Somerset House, London, until 13 April:

Am presenting a paper on British environmental organisations 1936 to 1946 in-person and online, Wednesday 26/2/2025, 5.30 to 7pm London time, at IHR, Bloomsbury, London. @UoBrisHistory @UoBrisCEH @ihr_history @HistoryConUKC @DudleyMarianna @Pastpreservers.

'Prepared To Make A Fine Fuss' online and in-person talk by me about the work of British environmental organisations during the 2nd World War. 26 February, at IHR, London, 5.30 to 7pm. Link not available yet but will put up asap. @UoBrisHistory @UoBrisCEH @HistoryConUKC

Can I just say how much I hate and detest online journal submission platforms? Ah there, that feels so much better.

In person and online at the Institute of Historical Research, London, Tuesday 4 March, 5.30 to 7pm; David Matless talking on his latest book, 'England's Green':

In-person 5.30 to 7pm at Institute of Historical Research, London, Wednesday 27 November: Fossil Diplomacy: The Franco-British Commercial Treaty of 1860 and the Environmental History of International Thought. Search for 'IHR Events Fossil Diplomacy'.

Excellent, enraging documentary on the impact of Britain's nuclear bomb testing on indigenous peoples and servicemen. Can't paste the link for some reason but search for: 'BBC Two - Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story'

Have been appointed as Academic & Environmental Representative on the National Archives User Advisory Group; @UkNatArchives; click on the link and scroll down for my contact details:

Hello all. Just to say that I will continue to stay on X/Twitter to do my modest bit as a voice of academic reason against fakery, but I'm also on BlueSky so if you leave here then look for me there. Thanks.

One for my Xmas list:

'A Familiar Source of Air Pollution': Steam trains and the smoke abatement movement in Britain, book for in-person or online at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 5.30 to 7pm, Thursday 21 November:

Delighted to have been appointed Academic & Environmental Representative on The National Archives' User Advisory Group: @UoBrisCEH; @SWWStudiesEdin; @UoBrisHistory; @Pastpreservers; click on the link and scroll down for my entry and email address:

'Lost Gardens of London' exhibition at the Garden Museum, London, until 2 March; they have a great cafe as well:

Just about to start reading 'Hedge Lands' by Christopher Hart:

'Archipelagos Against Empire' - contesting militarisation in the Pacific, online 5pm London time Thursday 31 October, organised by 'Military Surplus'/CRASSH:

Delighted to have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic for my book 'Fields Into Factories: the Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War'. @Grace_Huxford, @UoBrisHistory, @DudleyMarianna, @Pastpreservers, @TimCole_Bristol, @UoBrisCEH

The environmental cost of the war in the Middle East; go to

RT @wugolini: @HCAatEdinburgh

How one working class Swedish writer predicted global warming in 1928 as a result of coal use. Talk in Bloomsbury, London, 6 to 8pm on Thursday 7 November. Search for 'The Coal in Violence' on Eventbrite for more info and tickets