🚨Summer Meeting ECR Bursary🚨
Want to attend our summer meeting? We have bursaries available to current doctoral researchers and post-doctoral researchers within 2 years of completion!
💵 up to £400 per applicant
📅 deadline: 10 April 2026
Find out how to apply below 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
🚨SHNH x ZSL collab🚨
This year, our summer meeting is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Zoological Society of London, at none other than ZSL London Zoo itself! 🦁🐟🪲
🗓️1-3 July 2026
📍ZSL, London Zoo
Read the full programme and book your place! 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/news/registr...
This was one of the toughest decisions in my professional but I had to resign before I really started, unfortunately. It simply wasn’t possible to align with my current work. Thanks everyone for a great time and your kind words before, during & after this all too brief gig.
Call for papers This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90th year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowled...
It's #worldpoetryday so here are a few pieces from the Poetry Heritage and Community project I've been part of for the last year. First up, an overview of the project (a partnership between English Heritage and @torchoxford.bsky.social
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/intr... (1/6)
🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨
Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳
📅1-3 July 2026
🗺️Zoological Society of London
Find out how to submit 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
Excellent piece on the importance of experiencing place/space and movement for historians. One of the best classes I took at uni was on late medieval urban history because this class came with a bike excursion to the wee medieval towns in Franconia. Great fun & educational.
SHNH
Abbi Flint
Can someone please write that #PuttiOfScience book, already? We do need it!
Dr. Dominik Huenniger
OMG the #ESHS-HSS program is wild! So many parallel sessions!
Stay until the very last session to hear @arnoldke.bsky.social , @whitmerkelly.bsky.social , @annalsvensson.bsky.social & yours truly talk about #pedagogy #objects #collections & #NaturalHistoryHumanities
#histmed #histSTM 📜
Stay to the very end AND the day after for opportunities to visit @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social stores and other trips #ESHS-HSS
#NowSpinning in Vorfreude of seeing them live this Tuesday: dEUS - worst case scenario.
One of my all time favourite albums. It got me through all the (highs and) lows of the late 1990s.
This is a beautiful golden #vinyl reissue from 2013.
„You should be scaring me but don’t I only scare myself?“
Dr. Dominik Huenniger
Very pleased to share my new article on the legal case surrounding Welwitsch's Angolan botanical collections, part of the @collecol.bsky.social issue in @Endeavour (edited by the lovely @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @nickytheprof.bsky.social) ✨ #envhist
Available open access! doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Dr. Dominik Huenniger
Dr. Dominik Huenniger
Rebekah Higgitt
Katherine Arnold
The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution.
Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany helped her to appreciate the sheer scale of its history.
Cat‘s out of the bag now. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & I will be the new co-editors of Archives of Natural History @sochistnathist.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social .
We’re taking over from the inimitable Anne Secord.
New submission system will be set up soon. Stay tuned.
#HistNatHist
History Workshop
Dr. Dominik Huenniger
convention2.allacademic.com
Related: if anyone has knowledge of/literature recommendations on the use of putti (faces) on #EarlyModern scientific instruments (esp. on earliest use), I'd be very grateful for suggestions or getting in touch! (perhaps
@rhiggitt.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social?) #HistSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🏛️
The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany led her to appreciate the vast scale of...
OMG the #ESHS-HSS program is wild! So many parallel sessions!
Stay until the very last session to hear @arnoldke.bsky.social , @whitmerkelly.bsky.social , @annalsvensson.bsky.social & yours truly talk about #pedagogy #objects #collections & #NaturalHistoryHumanities
#histmed #histSTM 📜