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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 22h

Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 1d

New article!

'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 3d

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 2d

At last week's members meeting, we voted on ending our dispute. Administrators offered to pause compulsory redundancies until February, at which point they will begin in full what they have threatened all along.

Over 90% of members in attendance voted to reject this (non-)offer.

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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!!!

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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · 2d

Gutted to miss this!

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 3d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 2d

New article!

'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 8d

New review:

@milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 8d

New article!

'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 7d

New article!

'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 7d

New article:

'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005

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Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

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Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 7d

We are thrilled to be partnering with RGS-IBG on their book series and seeing the first @lsepress.bsky.social books publish next year.

Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 10d

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background.

A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Sep 9

New review!

Jane Wess on ‘Versailles: Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, London (12 December 2024–21 April 2025).

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.007

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 29d

New article!

'Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)', by Yannan Ding.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 28d

New review!

Elizabeth Baigent on 'Monet and London: Views of the Thames', edited by Karen Serres with contributions from Frances Fowle and Jennifer A. Thompson.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.009

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 27d

New review!

Carsten-Andreas Schulz on 'Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices', edited by Peder Roberts & Alejandra Mancilla.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.004

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 24d

New review!

Elizabeth Edwards on 'Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography', by Siobhan Angus.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.006

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 22d

New review!

Maria E. Karssenberg on Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 21d

New review!

Nokmedemla Lemtur on ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 23d

New review!

Anthony Picón-Rodríguez on Edgardo Pérez’s ‘El Caribe Cimarrón y los corsarios de Cartagena en la época de la Independencia’.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.001

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · Aug 26

New review!

Leonardo Porcelloni on Antonio Iodice's 'Through the Water and the Storm: Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.002

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Kären Wigen, Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2025
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Territorial Imaginaries

Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and...

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · Aug 29

Reform are closing adult education centres in Derbyshire and plan to sell off the buildings.

The decision was made behind closed doors with no public allowed in the meeting and without a public consultation.

Some of the centres have as much as 60% of students from the most deprived demographics.

Reform councillor closes five education centres at private meeting

Reform's Derbyshire County Council group was elected on a pledge to be open and transparent in its decision-making

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bellingcat has just launched a tool for searching through transcripts of local council meetings in the UK, which should help counter acts like these
council-search.bellingcat.com

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