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New RSA Blog 💻
Digital tools helped UK SMEs survive Covid-19 — but only in urban areas.

Sabine D’Costa & @ioramashvili.bsky.social show why rural firms saw no boost, calling for place-based digital strategies.

🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

👀 New RSA calls soon!
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We've got a stellar set of speakers this term at @ihr.bsky.social. Come along an immerse yourself in the latest early modern history research! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm 
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ 
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House
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Many thanks to @regstud.bsky.social and @rsablog.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on designing better maps in academia. And to @cchlebna.bsky.social for encouragement and feedback.
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For centuries, Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities shaped life by the tides 🌊🐟. Their Koliwadas are more than hamlets, they’re vernacular regions of caste, craft & ecology.
Read Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad’s RSA Summer Series blog 👇
👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
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New RSA Blog 🌍✍️ by Johanna Schnabel (@jos38.bsky.social) : Can Devolution Reduce Regional Inequality in the UK?
From “Levelling Up” to “Power Up Britain,” devolution is central, but structures alone aren’t enough. Read more 👇

🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
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⚠️ 40 years after the UK miners’ strike, former coalfield areas still bear the scars of austerity.

David Etherington, @mia-gray.bsky.social & Lisa Buckner reveal how £32.6B in welfare cuts + shrinking local gov funding = deep regional injustice.

Read the RSA blog: bit.ly/40d9jSm
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🚨 New blog by Dominik Gager explores how democratic planning + sufficiency can guide a just socio-ecological transformation—grounded in Doughnut Economics + planetary boundaries 🍩🌍
📘 Read: bit.ly/4kDYNLg
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Wait is Over!🚨 New RSA Summer Blog: Africa Edition
@jasonfbell.bsky.social unpacks how apartheid-era spatial inequality & local governance fractures contributed to the underdevelopment of Ga-Rankuwa and Winterveld, on Gauteng’s industrial periphery.
Read it here: bit.ly/3Inygo2
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New RSA blog 📢 Joanne Murphy (changeresearch.bsky.social) explores place leadership in post-Brexit Northern Ireland: where history, politics & development intersect.
Read: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
💡Rolling blog subs open November 😊.
Returning authors welcome!
Joanne Murphy (@changeresearch.bsky.social)
Professor of Inclusive leadership
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