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The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · 22d

Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs

A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Jun 10

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Jun 3

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Robert Suits on "In pursuit of room temperature: energy, colonialism, and the history of comfort in the United States". Everyone welcome. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/pursu...

10 June 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]

Robert Suits (UCL)

In pursuit of room temperature: energy, colonialism, and the history of comfort in the United States.

* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 27

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 20

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:

Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 13

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · May 7

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Lamin Manneh on "Freedom among the mangroves: Liberated African villages in colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism, 1816–1869". Everyone welcome. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/freed...

13 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]

Lamin Manneh (Institute of Historical Research)

Freedom among the mangroves: Liberated African villages in colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism, 1816–1869

* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Mar 26

Registration for our summer seminar programme—ranging from Liberated Africans in 19th-century Gambia, through Theodor W. Adorno, to the American idea of room temperature—is now live: eepurl.com/jaWTOA

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Mar 18

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Mar 11

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: Paul Merchant on "Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories". www.history.ac.uk/events/envir...

18 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]

Paul Merchant (National Life Stories, British Library)

Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Mar 4

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Feb 25

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar:
David Matless on "England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s" www.history.ac.uk/events/engla...

4 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]

David Matless (University of Nottingham)

England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s.

* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Feb 11

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: @jennypickerill.bsky.social on "Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain". www.history.ac.uk/events/mud-d...

18 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]

Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield)

Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Feb 4

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Jan 21

Joining instructions for today's online seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Jan 14

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar. Julian Agyeman on "Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms". www.history.ac.uk/events/just-...

21 January 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]

Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)

Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Dec 9

Registration for our spring term of seminars—focusing on the history of the environmental movement—is now live. Details here: eepurl.com/i5Jfq6

Two protesters tied to a tree. A line of men in hard hats and high-visibility tabards stands nearby.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Dec 3

Joining instructions for today's hybrid seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Nov 26

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University) on "The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/law-i... 🗃️

3 December 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]

Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University)

The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites.

* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Nov 13

This panel discussion has now been published in the Journal of Historical Geography: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Nov 12

Joining instructions for today's seminar have been emailed to registered delegates. If the email hasn't reached you, remember to check your spam folder.

London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Nov 6

Remember to register for next week's online seminar: Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) on "How does the law obtain its space? Justice and racial difference in colonial law: British Honduras (Belize), 1821". With discussant Filiberto Penados (Galen University). www.history.ac.uk/events/how-d...

12 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]

Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University)

How does the law obtain its space? Justice and racial difference in colonial law: British Honduras (Belize), 1821.

Discussant: Filiberto Penados (Galen University)

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Nov 5

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Oct 29

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Chloe Ireton (UCL) on "Imagining liberty: legal geographies of enslaved and free Black people in late sixteenth-century Sevilla". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/imagi... 🗃️

5 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]

Chloe Ireton (UCL)

Imagining liberty: legal geographies of enslaved and free Black people in in late sixteenth-century Sevilla.

* Senate House, South Block, Room 243.

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London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social · Oct 22

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