From 2018-2023 we maintained a blog with posts covering mountains in ancient and modern culture from a wide variety of different perspectives. Whilst you are of course welcome to browse the blog at your leisure, this page is intended to provide a birds-eye view of what it contains.
- What is a mountain? by Dawn, 19 January 2018
- Beautiful Mountains? by Jason, 2 February 2018
- Why visit mountains? A seventeenth-century answer by Dawn, 16 February 2018
- Olympus by Jason, 2 March 2018
- Why study mountains? a question for a 21st-century historian, by Dawn, 16 March 2018
- Ecotourism and Environment by Jason, 29 March 2018
- Mental Landscapes, Classical Mountains by Dawn, 16 April 2018
- Mountain Conquest by Jason, 11 May 2018
- Visualising mountains: Atlas transformed by Dawn, 25 May 2018
- Edward Dodwell on Mt Hymettos by Jason, 8 June 2018
- The Ascent of Jumbo: Twentieth Century Mountaineers on the Search for Hannibal’s Pass by Dawn, 31 August 2018
- Scottish Mountains and the Classical Tradition by Jason, 24 September 2018
- Augustus Hare on Mt Soracte by Jason, 11 February 2019
- Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Genealogy of an Idea by Dawn, 29 August 2019
- William Golding at Thermopylae by Jason, 9 January 2020
- ‘Pagan’ classics, Christians, and a Late Antique world-mountain by guest author Douglas Whalin, 26 March 2020
- Isolated mountains by Dawn, 29 April 2020
- Mountain Scholarship and Personal Experience: A Conversation, video discussion with Dawn and guest Chloe Bray, 30 October 2020
- Mountaineering history and environmental thinking in the early Christian saints lives by Jason, 23 February 2021
- Geography and identity in the mountains of the ancient Mediterranean by Jason, 19 January 2022
- Mountaineering journals – making an activity a sport, and giving sport a history? by Dawn, 2 November 2022
- Edmund Whymper’s classical quotations by Jason, 24 January 2023
- Mountains in Scottish Gaelic poetry by Dawn, 22 February 2023
- Looking back down the path by Dawn, 10 April 2023
- Mountain research: looking back and looking forward by Jason, 11 April 2023
During the course of the project we organised and attended a number of mountain-focussed events, which were summarised in various postings:
- Approaching Landscape: 11th-14th July 2018 by Dawn, 5 July 2018 (post in advance of panel which we organised)
- Approaching Landscape: Panel Report by Dawn, 14 September 2018
- Thinking Mountains 2018 by Dawn, 15 October 2018 (report of conference attended)
- From ancient mountains to the Appalachians by Dawn, 27 March 2019 (report of conference attended)
- Running a mountains research ‘unconference by Dawn, 3 April 2023
Finally, in the last months of the project we posted a series of ‘mountain research spotlights’, focussing on researchers working on mountains across a wide range of disciplines, with the intention of capturing a very small snapshot of the variety of work taking place within the ‘mountain humanities’:
- Introducing: Mountain research spotlights by Dawn, 24 February 2023
- Joanne Anderson, medieval art and pilgrimage
- Lachlan Fleetwood, nineteenth-century Himalayas
- Abbie Garrington, modernist literature
- Paul Gilchrist, history and cultural geography
- Jonathan Pitches, contemporary theatre and performance studies
- Christian Quendler, twentieth-century German film
- Graeme Warren, prehistoric archaeology
- Jonathan Westaway, nineteenth- and twentieth-century British exploration