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Through the 2017 Public Record Office Local History Grants Program, Stanley Athenaeum Friends group is investigating commissioning the research and writing of a history of Stanley with an environmental landscape approach and new insights. If the project is funded, it...

EHN member Janine Kitson is running a series of two-hour courses on environmental history and literature topics with adult education provider WEA in Sydney. Two forthcoming courses are: Gardens of Stone – A Photographers’ Wonderland Thursday 17 August, 2017,   6-8pm,...

Friday 18 August 2017, 6-8pm La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View Street, Bendigo. You are cordially invited to a Public Lecture on the history of seasonal migrant workers in English agriculture by Dr Nicola Verdon of Sheffield Hallam University, UK (Visiting Fellow,...

Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Germany, 21-22 June 2018 CFP deadline 30 September 2017 Convenors: Wilko Graf von Hardenberg...

Congratulations to ANZEHN member Johanna Conterio, whose article ‘Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1928-1936’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 16:1, 2015, was given an honourable mention in the St Andrews...

THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE INLAND (La Trobe University, Melbourne) PRESENTS Dr Nicola Verdon Class, gender and the countryside: Women’s contribution to the rural homefront in World War One Britain 12:00–1:30pm Tuesday 15 August Borchardt Library Learning Commons...