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According to my research, the Great Bustard was still pretty well recorded in Britain 250-500 years ago. It was hunted to extinction in the nineteenth century, but has since been reintroduced in Wiltshire.
I wonder if all the birds in the eastern Fen counties got soggy bums! - I don't think they are very waterproof birds! 😹​🦃
(Map from my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife)​

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Lukas VF Novak

Shaligrams, the #sacred #fossils, are becoming rarer because of climate change theconversation.com/shaligrams

"For more than 2,000 years, #Hinduism, #Buddhism and the shamanic #Himalayan #religion of Bon have venerated #Shaligrams – ancient fossils of #ammonites, a class of #extinct sea creatures related to modern #squids... #ClimateChange, faster glacial melting, and gravel mining in the #KaliGandaki are changing the course of the river, which means fewer Shaligrams are appearing each year."

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Three maps from my ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE showing where wild animals were recorded in Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago... :bunhdpeek:​
I found loads of records of Pine Martens and Otters. So why no records of Beavers from early modern England..?
John Ray (1693) says 'These animals have been cut down by hunters all the way to the final extermination, and their stock in England and Wales is thoroughly extinct...'
Were they already gone?😿​

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Carolyn Foix

It is in fact questioned by some authorities, wether even Mesolithic Europeans, were sailing out intoo deep waters, to catch offshore fish. (Pickard & Bonsell, 2004)

At European sites, inshore fishes greatly outnumber pelagic ones, although Thunnus, Scomber, Xiphias, and Belone turn up. I know from personal experience, that Belone and Scomber sometimes come quite inshore. The occurrences of the larger oceanic predators, Thunnus and Xiphias, are harder to explain without some offshore fishing.

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More new research from me published this month! :abunhdhappyhop:​

This is a chapter in the edited volume 'Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage' (Boydell Press). My research examines the (vv old!) chancery records of England and found over 200 licences for hunting hares 🐰​, foxes 🦊​, badgers 🦡​, wildcats (🐱​!) and wolves (🐺​!!!) in 13th and 14th century England. The licences are specific so can be mapped like this!

Free copy available here: zenodo.org/record/8173432

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@maiamaia @helenczerski

That's a fair cop! Okay...​

My book is out today! 🙀​

Here is an article I wrote about it for the Conversation: 🧐​
theconversation.com/wildlife-w

Here is a shorter article about some of the mammal records I found 🐾​:
mammal.org.uk/2023/06/the-atla

Here is a long presentation about my book 📽️​:
youtube.com/watch?v=k1RfCQFdv2

Here is a short walkthrough 🎙️​:
youtube.com/watch?v=RJK_eohsL8

Here is a sample 📗​:
pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/ne

And this is a thread of my maps! 💚​:
computerfairi.es/@LeafyHistory

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Society for One-Place Studies

No equivalent of 'quote tweeting' here, so to add to the post we've just shared: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife by @LeafyHistory looks like a fascinating read for anyone interested in the wildlife of their British or Irish #OnePlaceStudies in times gone by.

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Hi everyone, today is the day my book, THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE is published. 🙀💚

The Atlas catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland during the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐

It's taken me five years to get to this point! The Atlas is based on over 10,000 records from 200+ primary sources (essentially books written in the time period)!

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Emily Meyers

Ok finally career #introduction time!
I am a #DH #earlymodern Historian with preference of English and Irish History. I have specialized in the London Bills of Mortality on Death By Numbers. So basically I love medicine, death, and plague of early modern.

I received my MA from GMU, and worked with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) where I discovered my love for mixing tech and history. I am post grad at a local library while I figure out what to research

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Amateur naturalists still recorded wolves in the early modern period around Sutherland, and in the west of Ireland, but not England or Wales where they seem to have already gone extinct. 🐺​💔​

But of course, there are legends of wolves living much later than that, and in very different areas! And I have a bit of research coming out later this month which describes what happened when they went extinct in England :abunhdhappyhop:​

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After the Norman Conquests in Britain and Ireland, Rabbits were commonly kept in artificial warrens for meat and fur. 🐇
By the period that I study (250-500 years ago) Rabbits were widespread in England. Strangely though, they still had a mainly coastal distribution around Scotland, Ireland and Wales until much later. :abunhdsadpat:​
Map from my forthcoming book. :blobbunblush:​

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My slow worm friends are out of hibernation!! :bunhdheart:

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250-500 years ago, I have found were recorded across Britain, but interestingly not Ireland. This is surprising because we normally consider frogs to be native in Ireland! 💚​

Frogs also seem to have been reintroduced to Orkney and the Isle of Man in this period. Unless someone made a mistake, this happened multiple times - it is possible there have been multiple waves of frog and on these smaller islands! 🐸​:blobwizard:​

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The Burbot is a sinuous fish with chunky pectoral fins. It was never widespread in Britain and Ireland but I have collected records showing it was found in the east of England 250-500 years ago. It seems to have only gone extinct there around 1970!

In recent years there has been talk by the Norfolk Rivers Trust of reintroducing it, so perhaps it will be back soon!

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arborelia

To catch up on why Google Scholar is a uniquely trans-exclusionary force in academia:

scholar.hasfailed.us

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Just back from the UCU picketline in Cardiff today. Here we are demonstrating the British Sign Language sign for "STRIKE", which can also mean "REVOLUTION" *hint hint* 😘

We are on strike against casual contracts, overwork, underpay and inequality. ✊

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The frost is back to covering the mountain this week - I see the winter does not want to give up on Wales just yet! :bunhdcomfyhappy:

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But Esmé had a son, Ludovic, who was nine years old when Esmé died. He was sent to James VI and this gives James' poem a hopeful ending, despite the TREACHERY and ENVY of those evil ravenous birds! :

'Part of my taill
Is yet untolde, Lo, here one of her race
Ane worm bred of her ash...'

(Part of my tale / Is yet untold, look! here is one of her race / a worm bred of her ash...)

James VI went on to have relationships with other men and women, but that's a story for another day!

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Then having tane ane dry and wethered strae
In deip despair, and in ane lofty rage
She sprang up heigh, outfleing every fae
Syne to Panchaeia came, to change her age
Upon Appollo's altar...

(Then having taken a dry and withered staw / In deep despair and in a lofty rage / She sprang up high, outflying every foe / Soon to Panchaea came, to change her age / Upon Apollo's alter...)

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The poem ends a bit sadly though. One day a group of carrion birds (ravens, kestrels, kites) get jealous and chase the phoenix back to her homeland, where she burns itself. In real life, Esmé and James VI were forcibly separated and Esmé was exiled back to France, where he died. Esmé also apparently sent his embalmed heart back to James which is pretty dark!

(lovely writeup here thehistoricalnovel.com/2022/02)

lgbthm

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