Max Long

@maxlong.bsky.social

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Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain. Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Views etc, my own.

Book cover for 'A Science for Everyday Life: Mass media, natural history and the environment in Britain, 1900-1945'. Image on the cover shows a class of children watching a film about a frog.

photograph of a bee orchid

Snippet from coverage of Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox debate on Islam at the Oxford Union, where Fox compares Islam to fascism and says that "the West should condemn Islam in the strongest terms", before producing an AI picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg

Details for a call for papers for the workshop "Modern British History and the Environmental Turn", 16-17 September 2026, at Lincoln College, Oxford. 300 word proposals for a short 'position paper' of approximately 2500 words, to be submitted to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026

Colour photograph of a little owl on a tree branch

Black and white photograph of a Little Owl (or, Athene noctua) peeking out of a hole in a tree.

A black and white photograph of a rather alarmed looking Little Owl, or Athene Noctua, sitthin on a large log

Front cover of the journal 'The Frier' from 1923

Newspaper article from the 1930s titled "slept on a grave" about a woman who suffered from narcolepsy: "Immediately the patient tries to do needlework, knitting, or darning she begins to fall asleep"

Image of a railway carpenter who suffered from Narcolepsy in the 1920s, from S. Kinier Wilson's 1928 article "The Narcolepsies" in the journal "Brain".

Newspaper article from 1937 showing an image of a girl sitting at a desk with an open book, and the headline "She Falls Asleep Too Easily"

The Stanford narcolepsy researcher Emmanuel Mignot, holding one of his narcoleptic pet dogs

Screenshot from a newspaper feature in 1932, showing a young girl sitting at a desk with an open book. The headline reads: "She falls asleep too easily"

A pyramidal orchid surrounded by undergrowth

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for pope Leo XIV, with a user asking people to stop changing the image to one of Cardinal Parolin

Screenshot of Wikipedia talk page, where users debate whether the new Pope’s US nationality should determine the date format on his Wikipedia page

Text from a Wikipedia talk page with a post reading “he the pope”, referring to the election of Pope Leo XIV

Child’s drawing of ship spilling oil into the sea, with a seagull in the foreground. Text below reads “A Protest” and “Effect of Oil on Seabirds”.

British Library blogpost from 13 Jan 2021 reading: “hacking the BL from home”