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I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the convoluted history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online #playgroundhistories

Delighted to be on the supervisory team for this PhD alongside Dr Shelda-Jane Smith (primary supervisor), @BryonyElla and Dr Gabrielle Thongs

It was lovely to give a paper last week at @PHE_Munich / Rachel Carson Center as part of my Simone Veil Fellowship. Am still digesting the excellent questions and comments

I once skipped D-Day to tell voters who are struggling to afford food that I grew up without MTV Cribs

Things are awful personally and globally right now, but this was a fun afternoon that prompts me to annouce on here that I have a new book coming out in Nov Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog profilebooks.com/work/collared/ Thanks to Imo (cakes) and Plum and Wilfie (lurcher vibes)

I'm so pleased to see that Designed for Play is now out and available to download for free...!

A week left to apply to the Research Fellow position on “Carbon Bodies” (deadline the 12th). If you are interested in energy, the body, and its relationship to public health policy, do consider applying. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR074/res… #envhist #envhums #histtech #medhums #healthhums

📣The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Historical dimensions of the Anthropocene jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Tra…

🐕 Join very good boy Professor Chris Pearson (Chris Pearson) for the launch of his new book 'Collared', all about the history of man's best friend (dogs, of course), at West Kirby Bookshop on 12 Dec eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversat…

'From dog fanciers to dog catchers, and dog food to dog mess, our evolving relationship with man’s best friend is covered in deep historical detail' #Collared reviewed in the Irish Independent 🐾 independent.ie/entertainment/… Chris Pearson

Really looking forward to this!

From working dogs to the advent of the animal rights movement, our relationship to man's best friend has a complex and varied history, reflecting our own social change. #Collared, a lively new history of the modern dog, out now 🐶🐾 profilebooks.com/work/collared/ Chris Pearson

Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich

'An entertaining and wide-ranging history' A delightful review for #Collared by Chris Pearson in the The New Statesman 🐶 newstatesman.com/culture/2024/1…

Lovely to see this article out, 4 weeks to the day that Collared was published!