Find both books here in our catalogue:
Bristol:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1887649514
London:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1904029493
(bonus pic of one of our famous Göttingen campus ducks @subugoe !)
#BlueHumanities #EnglishHistory #EconomicHistory #PostcolonialStudies #LondonHistory #MaterialCulture #History #Archaeology
Now off to #London - this large volume, edited by John Schofield & Stephen Freeth, presents archaeological findings from London's waterfront, 1666-1800, making #history & #MaterialCulture come alive in many pictures of maps, houses & objects found
Fancy a dip? 🌊 Today's books share the refreshing topic of ports in #EnglishHistory
Richard Stone's 2024 monograph on #Bristol & the birth of the Atlantic #economy 1500-1700 analyses #EarlyModern trade in Britain, based on the Bristol Port Books
Three Things… #6
https://bookjotter.com/2025/04/17/three-things-6/
This sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done/thought is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited along for the ride. #AmReading #bookstodon #Books #BlueHumanities
A new blog post about the forthcoming experimental #GitHub peer review project for my #ExperimentalPublishing #DeepMapping and #BlueHumanities book: https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.46761718 @copim @kbnationalebibliotheek #Writing #Review #Design
Forbes published a nice new review of my latest book: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2025/01/23/new-book-offers-reality-check-on-sea-level-rise/
“In a revelatory new book, Sea Level: A History, author Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, […], deftly chronicles just how difficult it was to come up with a standard method of measuring mean sea level. In the process, Hardenberg gives us a richly detailed yet very accessible history of how over five centuries, the concept of measuring mean sea level was a painstaking process that advanced in fits and starts.”
OnlineFirst - "The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste" by Lisa Yin Han:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486241304970
Just read Steve Mentz's new "Introduction to the #BlueHumanities" --- a good overview of theoretical approaches in the field and an inspiration for future research. According to Mentz, Blue Humanities "explore the many ways humans engage with #water". It's also interesting to explore when and how a certain #research perspective (like "water-centric thinking") becomes a discipline or an interdisciplinary community of scholars that pursue a shared objective. #AcademicBooks
An interview about my Markdown writing in progress for the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities project: https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.fd1f9fe1 @copim #Markdown #ExperimentalPublishing #DeepMaps #BlueHumanities
"Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago" - Pippa Marland's 2023 book explores creative non-fiction on the theme of islands through the lens of the #Anthropocene & #Ecocriticism 🏝️
#IslandStudies #BlueHumanities #WorldEmojiDay #LiteraryStudies
Ahoy! Weil ich mich bei der Recherche zu #DieVerbotene See grade in dem Kapitel "The Ocean Perspective" festgelesen habe, dachte ich, ich weise euch mal auf diesen tollen Band hin:
Kira Gee, Jacek Zaucha (2019): Maritime Spatial Planning, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98696-8_2
Now up to 516 items (including several from 2023 alone!), our shared Coastal Studies / Coastal History library on Zotero is right here: www.zotero.org/groups/25030... . Just added something stray from back in 2021, it appeared in the journal Comparative Literature so it wasn't on our radar. #BlueHumanities #CoastalStudies #CoastalHistory #histodons #envhist
New publication, "free access." An introduction to a special issue. "Yellow Sea Studies: Toward a Cross-Cultural and Transboundary Approach," Coastal Studies & Society (2023). An interesting mix of very old and very new in the citations/historiography here. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26349817231191307 #CoastalStudies #CoastalHistory #BlueHumanities #EastAsia #histodons
@earlymodernmaritimestudies
Book series now accepting proposals: Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800. I know several of these folks, they’d be lovely people to work with. #Maritime #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #BlueHumanities #histodons
In 1752, John Bond, a doctor in London proposed adopting Polybius' description of a ballista for whaling. He even built a ballista and sent it to the Royal Academy, claiming that it would give Britain an edge over Dutch whalers. He jubilantly wrote that one gun was equal to 100 harpooners, but that these laborers would resist the invention because they had "strong prejudice against all improvements."
Next in the Charismatic Encounters series is an interview with ecologist & Director of Yorkshire Coast Nature, Richard Baines, about the Seabird and Whale trips he runs, with opportunities to see minke whales, bottlenose dolphins & other marine wildlife. We spoke about changes he's observed in minke numbers and distribution, the value of local North Yorkshire knowledge, and the joy of being out on the water. The guided trips start again 21 July!
"A #bluehumanities "pre-print" essay explores the rise of jellyfish in environmental turmoil and their indifferent behavior, raising questions about humans potentially becoming "human jellyfish" in their responsibility towards #climatechange."
Link:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202307.0647/v1
This is directly copied from a Twitter post by Mohammed Muharram, @mohamedmuharram
A favourite piece of the project has to be the timeline of whales in Yorkshire's history and heritage. I charted over four centuries of human-whale encounters, from Arctic whaling to c20th captivity to whale watching today. It includes major historical dates for cetaceans in Britain, representing 800 years of interspecies history. Lots of images, including engravings, maps, museum artefacts & nature photography!
https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/whale-timeline-yorkshire-england/
The March issue of Coastal Studies & Society, "Living with Coasts: Special Issue Honoring John Gillis" is freely accessible online until 9th August 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/clsa/2/1 #envhist #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary book on Lake Ladoga; English-language version just out this month! If you look this up on Google Books, you can read it Open Access. I have a short piece in here, “Taking Lakes Seriously,” which is a roundup of recent scholarship by historians from around the world. I solicited tips and citations for that on social media, one way that these platforms enhance academic life even if we gripe about them at times. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #Ladoga #BlueHumanities
