Christian Drury

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Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/

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Got some summer today ☀️

Celebrating my birthday by... submitting revisions on an article about transnational mountaineering cultures! I know how to live it up 🥳

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Jeg leser litt i reisehåndbok til Kristiania i 1878, det er gøy så her kommer tråd.

A map of Jostedalsbreen from the 1890 edition of Den norske turistforenings årbok. It shows both traditional and newly established routes for crossing the glacier

Her holder de «begravelse» for isbreen: www.nrk.no/nordland/kan...

Kan kunst redde klima?www.nrk.no

Nasjonalmuseet har satt sammen en «fjelltur»-samling. Noen fantastiske malerier og fotografier og det er interessant å se hvordan skildringene har endret seg: www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/te...

Fjelltur i samlingawww.nasjonalmuseet.no

A soggy Miners' Gala

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3 year #envhist #histSTM #histmed postdoc working on a fascinating sounding project "Carbon Bodies: Warmth and Fuelling Health in Britain, 1918 to 2022" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR074/r... 🗃️

Else Hertzberg, one of Norway's foremost female mountaineers in the 1930s, climbing in the Lyngen Alps 📷: Peter Wessel Zapffe/Nasjonalbiblioteket

This is a really exciting special issue from the Collecting Norden research group at UiO, looking at travel and collecting in the Arctic and featuring some excellent scholars: journals.uio.no/museolog/iss...

Vol. 36 No. 1 (2024): Special Theme: Objects of the North | Nordisk Museologi journals.uio.no

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How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...

Whales as a Nordic speciality: Collecting cetaceans for Natural History Museums (1860s–1910s) | Nordisk Museologi journals.uio.no

The Norwegian coast through a porthole, photographed by Peter Wessel Zapffe 📷: Nasjonalbiblioteket

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One week to go for the deadline! Please send us your abstracts and bios before the 15th of July. #histstm #histtech #envhist #envhum www.uis.no/en/research/...

Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: Histories, Temporalities, and Spaces (Call for Papers)www.uis.no 10-11 December 2024: Stavanger, Norway

Accidently closed all my tabs and can't get them back, so please keep me in your thoughts at this difficult time

Voted! There's still time and it helps with the nerves...

I've been looking at Peter Wessel Zapffe's mountain photographs and I particularly like this one, taken in the Lyngen Alps in the 1930s ⛏️ 📷: Nasjonalbiblioteket

I've been reading lots about hytter recently without actually going to Norway or anywhere else mountainous, so if anyone wants to fund a research trip... This is Gjendebu, photographed by Knud Knudsen in 1890 (and from the Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen collection)

Submitted some edits for an article on photographs like this, among other things, and... I think I'm proud of it as a piece of work? This photo is tourists entering Trollfjorden, taken by Wilse in 1906 and from the Norsk Folkemuseum collection 🗻🚢🗻

Architectural contrasts at Ushaw College

I got some new glasses, so I'm having a midsummer drink outside and peering at things

Northern European summer evenings >>>>>

Passengers observe the pack ice off Svalbard from a cruiseship, early 1930s 📷: Atelier K. Knudsen/Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen

An advertisement for a cruise to Nordkapp and Svalbard from 1935, run by the Norwegian America Line 🛳️

Had to pop into the library to enjoy the view (and pick up some books)

"imperial history... plays out in frontline politics and on the front pages of newspapers, with imperial historians regularly being vilified and their work being wilfully misunderstood in public": www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

‘Imperial nostalgia has become so extreme’: Sathnam Sanghera on the conflict surrounding colonial historywww.theguardian.com Historians are terrorised for doing their work while the rightwing narrative has gained traction with those in power. The Empireland author explores the dangers of denial

Went shopping for useful things in Newcastle today and came back having bought nothing but this

Selling wine in supermarkets?! This is truly the end of the long twentieth century of Swedish social democracy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Finland and Sweden move to relax strict alcohol lawswww.bbc.com Both countries currently have some of the strictest alcohol laws in Europe.

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As a Thursday treat, a little thread on my work on 19thC tourism and empire. This is from a few years back but with renewed relevance because of both the book I'm finishing and a special issue we've done that's coming out later this year. It's been gaining momentum, you might say! 🧵 🗃️