Dr Alice Would
@WouldAlice
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Environmental Historian @BristolUni. animals, senses, skin, taxidermy, temporality, empire, museums. she/her.
Bristol, England
Joined October 2017
Popping up from the twitter abyss to plug mine and Andy Flack's new article. Check it out if you're interested in disability history, animal history, history of science
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
In this article, we construct a critical history of “ability” by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of...
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Case studies are bats and, my personal fave, the star-nosed mole
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Articles are like buses: here is another of mine and Andy Flack’s. This one considers the relationship between animal and human senses - and whether scientific investigations tell us more about the human sensorium and imagination than they do the nonhuman.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth through to the early...
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RT @DanielHaines1: Earthquakes can slow down your sense of time! Find out why this matters for historians in my new article in @PastPresent….
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Abstract. Scholarship on historical temporality has explored what time meant to people in the past. Going further, how did historical actors’ perception of
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RT @murrayrachel89: This term @WouldAlice, Adrian Howkins and I have designed a brand new unit called 'Themes in Environmental Humanities,'….
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Hello Twitter mind (x mind? Urgh) I’m looking for examples of public facing projects related to the health/ medical humanities with at least one historian involved. For public history teaching. Bonus points for creative outputs. Things like the fab sensing spaces of healthcare.
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RT @Thinkwert: Every day of the last six months, the nights have gotten longer. This is because the crows are nibbling away at the sun. At….
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RT @NoreenMasud: More recs for action via @ProfMadhuK . If you’re in the UK: please write to your MP.If you’re international: please write….
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RT @UoBrisEnglish: We're horrified to hear that our brilliant, dedicated colleague Dr Doseline Kiguru has been denied a UK visa for her six….
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RT @viviankonghk: Really excited that my book with @cambUP_History @CambridgeUP, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 191….
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RT @seeshespeak: I’m trying to write and my writing nook is perfection itself but also LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENING OUTSIDE? .
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RT @esehtweets: 👏The Tallinn Prize Committee and @esehnextgate received wonderful PhD theses in European #envhist. Congratulations to the….
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… I was also so very pleased to be awarded the Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History. Thanks to all who have helped and advised along the way! @esehtweets @esehnextgate.
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Had a super time at #eseh2023 at some wonderful and creative events (@dr_hick @DrAFlint and @SarahBell85 thank you for the early morning song fest), with friends new and old, and incredible swimming….
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RT @UoBrisEnglish: Celebrate the new nature memoir LATE LIGHT by our own Michael Malay with a nature walk! Dr Malay will lead a group from….
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RT @drjordankistler: Completely obsessed with this advert from 1861 that uses the controversy over Darwin's recent publication to sell some….
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