Stephen Legg
@stephenlegg11.bsky.social
Historical Geographer of 20th-Century Interwar Indian Urban, Colonial, Imperial and International Worlds. https://stephenleggeog.wordpress.com
Pinned
So after, ahem, 18 years, this is published (South Asia edition in pipeline). A follow-up book, of sorts, looking at New&Old Delhi together, but as spaces of anticolonialism, with parrhesia as the governmentality framework, and a subaltern foci.See 🧵..
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Protest over future of university language courses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses
The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Protest over future of university language courses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks so much for this contribution!
Massive thanks to @stephenlegg11.bsky.social for organising the session, and to all the attendees who shared their thoughts on the day!
Full 'Map Room Conversations' special issue coming soon!
Full 'Map Room Conversations' special issue coming soon!
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thanks so much for this contribution!
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A wee trailer for the about-to-be-released interactive 3D model of the Empire Exhibition of 1938. The original modelling of all these pavilions was done in 2007. This new app incorporates archival materials and quotes from contemporary Glaswegians.
#Glasgow #history #research #playfulLearning #3D
#Glasgow #history #research #playfulLearning #3D
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Fantastic initiative, well done all!
It is here! Special issue on Historical Geography in #TerraBrasilis Big thanks to @patriciasgeo.bsky.social and #Deborah Fontenelle for this collaborative edited journal issue which has been an absolute pleasure to work on. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
22 | 2024 Geografia Histórica
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November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Fantastic initiative, well done all!
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📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle.
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle.
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
Please do share widely !
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Please do share widely !
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48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing.
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing.
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Sussex School for Progressive Futures Scholarships : University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)
Inside 10 Downing Street, the creaky old house that runs Britain
Mice, “nan’s bathrooms,” carpets duct-taped together — and terrible phone signal. Is there a worse place to run a country from than 10 Downing Street?
www.politico.eu
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)
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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Genealogy of Genealogy
A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows tha...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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James Delbourgo, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now - WW Norton, August 2025
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Noble Madness
“In this fascinating, witty, and provocative book, Delbourgo’s collectors range from emperors to scientists, from shopaholics to taxonomists, from bibliomaniacs to serial killers. Give it ...
wwnorton.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
James Delbourgo, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now - WW Norton, August 2025
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
#envhist
#envhist
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Apply now for the Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
#envhist
#envhist
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New review!
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002
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‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
15/16
Please enjoy and share widely this spectacular special issue!
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
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Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Please enjoy and share widely this spectacular special issue!
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"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
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New article!
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002
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New review!
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New review!
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007
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New review!
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008
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New article!
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New article!
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
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October 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Thankyou @milo-z-miller.bsky.social for composing this thread of our amazing Volume 89 ;)
Vol. 89 is out!
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/89/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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October 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thankyou @milo-z-miller.bsky.social for composing this thread of our amazing Volume 89 ;)
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New article!
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New article!
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005
'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005