On the Nature of Things

A history podcast about people and nature, hosted by @fairban_c and @maryhitchman • Supported by @TORCHOxford 🌿

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

Our final episode, The Harvest, is out now! Thank you to our guests @AyyVeeBee and @MarjorieRubrig1 for teaching us about husbandry, kitchen gardens, and the theme of harvesting in early modern literature (and keeping us laughing the entire time)
https://t.co/6aeSPaq5g5

[On Location @OnLocation2022]

#CfP: ‘On Location: Material Space and Literary Production c.1500-1651', 23-24 June 2022, University of Oxford.

Abstracts by 28 February, 2022 to [email protected].

https://t.co/2Dh76AbwXT

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CfP by one of our co-hosts, @fairban_c!

[On Location @OnLocation2022]

#CfP: ‘On Location: Material Space and Literary Production c.1500-1651', 23-24 June 2022, University of Oxford.

Abstracts by 28 February, 2022 to [email protected].

https://t.co/2Dh76AbwXT

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

Calling all graduate students! #nature #ecocriticism #twitterstorians https://t.co/LkBaCpElyx

[Dr Becca Drake @RLDrake]

You still have time to apply for this! Deadline end of today :)

[Hillary Eklund @hillaryeklund]

The paperback for TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH SHAKESPEARE is out this month! 30% disc from EUP, code PAPER30. https://t.co/YrmT4L7zEI

[UCL Anthropocene @AnthropoceneUCL]

'The climate crisis is not caused by vague “human actions”; nor is it a result of some innate aspect of human nature. It is caused by specific investments by specific people in specific things. Change those, and we can change the future.'

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

@AyyVeeBee @MarjorieRubrig1 Thank YOU for being such delightful and brilliant interviewees!

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

Our final episode, The Harvest, is out now! Thank you to our guests @AyyVeeBee and @MarjorieRubrig1 for teaching us about husbandry, kitchen gardens, and the theme of harvesting in early modern literature (and keeping us laughing the entire time)
https://t.co/6aeSPaq5g5

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

The compleat angler, or The contemplative man's recreation; being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish, and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers, by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, G. G. Harrap & co., ltd. [1931]
https://t.co/DqewODV4W8

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

Great news: On the Nature of Things is finally available on Apple Podcasts! It's also on Anchor, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Happy listening!

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And whilst we’re on the topic, you can listen to our most recent episode on trees here: https://t.co/pqrpVwtKrh

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We can’t recommend the ‘Roots to Seeds’ exhibition at @bodleianlibs enough - a fitting 400th birthday party for Oxford Botanic Garden #OBG400

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The exhibition features a selection of pieces of wood from Oxford’s xylarium, which is a collection of different types of wood. The Oxford xylarium began in 1924 and contains 24,000 wood samples!

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@AyyVeeBee Our pleasure! Can’t wait to hear the ideas that come out of this workshop

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Call for participants! The 'Eco, Bio, Zoo' workshop for postgrads and ECRs will bring medievalists and early modernists together to produce new thinking on ecocriticism, animal studies, and biopolitics.

Application deadline is 20th August, go go go!

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

In many early medieval calendars, 7 August - halfway between midsummer and the autumnal equinox - is the beginning of a new season. It's the first day of autumn, when the earth is rich with the abundance of the harvest. Some Anglo-Saxon harvest poetry: https://t.co/mVAnDVogNv

[On the Nature of Things @thenaturepod]

Here @thenaturepod we're pretty big fans of trees, and it turns out we're in excellent company!

https://t.co/i1SQa3tNEg