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Messy-haired hedge-doctor & friend to the local Slow Worms.
Special subject: the history of wildlife & wild plants in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Looking to follow people who talk about nature, history, unions and the secret moonlight magic that opens the gates to faerie.
#AnimalHistory #EnvHist #HistoricalEcology #medieval #EarlyModern #MoreThanHuman #CelticStudies #HGIS #extinction #histodons
Joined Dec 2022
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Hi, I do #naturewriting to highlight wonder & aliveness in the world. In a Nature-Spirit #podcast I use #history and #naturespirituality to make sense of current #ecocrises. My first book, Kissed by a Fox, won the WILLA Award in #creativenonfiction. It’s #memoir punctuated by cultural story—how Euro-world came to think of nature as lacking. My second book, Tamed by a Bear, is a journal of one year in a #spiritualpractice of #natureconnection. Centering more-than-human voices. #Introduction
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New Year's is coming! Parties! Fun! Hangovers! And of course, you'll want to cure your hangover in the most medieval way!
The internet will tell you that eating raw eels was a traditional medieval cure. Sweet! To the store!
Hold on there, hos.
This was NOT a traditional medieval remedy. Eel blood is toxic to mammals. It causes very bad reactions in mucus membranes, & induces intestinal distress. Enough can prove fatal.
Curiously, otters don't seem bothered by this.
#Eels #Otters #History
My strange winter habit is to read something about #SlowWorms (they are hibernating right now and I miss them! 💚)
I found this paper today called 'Great capricorn beetle-created corridors as refuges for lizards' https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/81190/download/pdf/
It describes how common lizards, sand lizards and slow worms use the holes (corridors) bored by gc beetles for predator evasion, as well as maybe hunting, thermoregulation and hibernating. Another reason to have a log pile! 🦎🎄 #herpetology
December's historical wildlife map is of the (harbour/grey) #seal! According to my research, seals were widespread around Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago! 🐕🧜♀️
Interestingly, seals started to decline after the end of the #EarlyModern period due to increased hunting. Around 1900 they had become so rare that they had to be legally protected. They have recovered pretty well since, and it's now pupping season, so look out for them if you walk on the coast this winter! 🌊🔭 #histodons #mammals
If you traveled back 250-500 years what #wildlife could you see near you? After a four year research project, I can tell you the answer in Britain and Ireland and it is quite exciting! (🐺🐆🐰🦈🦐🐍)!
My Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife will be published in June, but I have special permission to share some of my findings before that, so I will be releasing one map each month here. Here is a list of previously released ones: https://historyandnature.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/atlas-maps/
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Today the #mountain air is murky with fog. My footsteps are muffled as I walk and there is a ripple of quiet anticipation passing through the wood. A good lunchtime!
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Thinking about the adaptability of #trees today. How ancient junipers like these have flowed so differently in their centuries of growth because of pressures faced long ago, from lightning strikes and buckling winds to storms lifting them partially out of the earth. The resilience needed to remake the arrangement, counterbalancing a suddenly altered centre of gravity or reshooting from a shattered, fire-scorched crown. The stories of endurance held by the heartwood.
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I want to share #nature pics - especially of wild plants and amphibians and reptiles. I'd like to read toots on other kinds of #history too (queer history, Black history, Mughal India). I'm hoping to meet more people who are in the UK's University and College Union (#UCU). But I’d also love to see toots which have a trace of the mystery and queerness of faerie about them!🧚💜
#NewToMastodon #TwitterMigration
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I work as an Associate Lecturer. When not teaching or walking, I research the #history of #wildlife and #wildflowers and I'll post about that here. I've just finished writing my 'Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife', out in June and this month I have been working on a research project on pine trees and yew trees in #MedievalWales, and a translation of an #earlymodern Scottish natural history text out of #Latin. 🌲📚
#AmWriting #CelticStudies
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In Glamorgan in #Wales there is a mountain which is cool and dim and damp and old. It has wizened old walls covered in moss, and tall, gnarled trees bristling with ivy. There are footpaths crisscrossing and circling about that mountain so that we can check on it; #mountains are not entirely trustworthy you see. I am one of the people living on that mountain and, of course, I walk across it as often as I can on my lunch breaks! ⛰️
- Bird Site:
- https://twitter.com/LeafyHistory
- Pronoun:
- they/them
Messy-haired hedge-doctor & friend to the local Slow Worms.
Special subject: the history of wildlife & wild plants in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
Looking to follow people who talk about nature, history, unions and the secret moonlight magic that opens the gates to faerie.
#AnimalHistory #EnvHist #HistoricalEcology #medieval #EarlyModern #MoreThanHuman #CelticStudies #HGIS #extinction #histodons
Joined Dec 2022
