June 2020

eco-fascism in the English nature-writing tradition - NewStatesman

vestiages of empire: still holing onto the "British Indian Ocean Territory" - NYROB

a brief history of the BBC's 1938-1999 German Service - ModLangs

bad-boy embroidery fashion in rural Japan - SSENSE

python bounty hunters in Florida's Everglades - 1843 Magazine

Fairtrade faces a shift to in-house certification schemes - Guardian

interesting choice of pub to photograph for this story! - Guardian

how is my prediction that epidemiology is attacked less than climate science holding up? - Oxford Blog

rethinking tourism - Guardian

Javanese traditional musicians are struggling in lockdown - Inside Indonesia

new paleogenomics: "the economic heterogeneity that is the hallmark of modern Africa resulted from diverse local histories of population admixture, interaction, and avoidance" - Science Advances

Hammer and Dance? a critical look at Sweden's coronavirus strategy - Medium

open corruption? uncontested £100 million PPE contract given to firm with £20k in assets - GoodLawProject

a thread on the history of public transport infrastructure funding in Italy - @ChittiMarco [via @ParadiseOxford]

the appropriation of London by the super rich - Independent

picturebooks with guidelines for primary curriculum integration - Padlet

three excellent lectures by Neil Price on "The Viking Mind" - YouTube [skip the boring introduction]

some broad thoughts on meaning and the purpose of education - PrimaryTimery

two Walker Studio titles by Martin Jenkins - Life: The First Four Billion Years + A World of Plants [my review]

excavation of a walrus-hunting camp in Iceland from around 800 AD - Iceland Review

an Oxford historian looks at local landscapes - Life in the Floodplain

the German response to coronavirus - FT

Geoff Huston on emerging Internet technologies - Potaroo [via @phaseit]

Anne Applebaum on Trump's collaborators, with historical comparisons - Atlantic

three books on mathematics and art/visualisation - Math Art - Beautiful Geometry - Bilder der Mathematik [my review]

Covid-19 and the UK's systemic racism - NewStatesman

"now is the time to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets" - Guardian

a sustainable future for Mongolia's cashmere industry? - Diplomat

Taleb on the tail risk of contagious diseases - Nature

privatisation and cuts: shrinking the state has crippled England's coronavirus response - Guardian