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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 11d

Re-upping for the weekend crowd. New #OpenAccess #UrbanHist #EnvHums #interdisciplinarity

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 13d

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

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Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · 14d

Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna and Krista Cowman spoke about their contributions to this book at #UHG2025 a few weeks ago. Very excited to see this out soon 👇

Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 14d

"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today"

Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

Front cover - white text on green background reads: The Modern British City 1945-2000. Edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith.

Photo on cover depicts twe semi-detached (possibly formerly terraced) houses on a street corner in front of the modernist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 16d

📣 We're looking for a new Bibliographer to join the #UrbanHistory team!

This is a great opportunity to get involved with a world-leading academic journal and find out about the latest urban history publications.

Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Contact Roey Sweet for more details.

Call for Bibliographer for Urban History

Urban History seeks to appoint a new bibliographer to compile our annual bibliography of publication in urban history.
This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research. Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews. The bibliography, which has a global coverage, provides an essential tool for researchers interested in exploring recent publications and historiographical trends in their fields.
About the bibliographer role
The role involves the following tasks:
• Searching for books, book chapters and journal articles published in the preceding calendar year, using online resources (journal websites, the Bibliography of British and Irish History and publishers’ websites).
• Compiling a bibliography of all the entries ordered by thematic categories (typically 1000 entries).
• Working with the production team at Cambridge University Press to check and proof-read copy edits before final production.
We expect the new bibliographer to be able to start on 1 January 2026.
We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education.
The positions attract an annual honorarium.

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Successful candidates will be fully supported by the the journal editors (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Roey Sweet, Domenic Vitiello and Rosemary Wakeman).
How to apply
Those interested in making an application for the position of review editor should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk)
• a CV (no more than 3 pages)
• a summary of 300 words outlining your interest in the role

Enquiries
Informal enquiries about the role, including honorarium payments, can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk
Deadline
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 6 November

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well that was good! Thank you so much to all the speakers and delegates for making our first joint conference with the Pre-Modern Towns Group so enlivening and stimulating. It's #EAUH2026 in Barcelona next year but watch this space for news of #UHG2027!

The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

Setting up for #UHG2025

Thank you @royalhistsoc.org for helping us show we know the value of history @uniofleicester.bsky.social!

Conference programme with Royal Historical Society badges reading ‘I know the value of history’, ‘trust me, I’m a historian’, and ‘this is what a historian looks like’

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you for your fantastic paper, Adam!

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was great to share an aspect of my research with the Urban History Group yesterday, it's been a great conference so far! Many thanks to the @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social organisers!

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

Setting up for #UHG2025

Thank you @royalhistsoc.org for helping us show we know the value of history @uniofleicester.bsky.social!

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can she come to the conference? Asking for a friend

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Shane Ewen @shaneewen.bsky.social · Aug 29

Latest version of What is Urban History?, published in Korean! A true transnational volume,

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · Aug 28

I enjoyed writing my contribution to this blog (see the 🧵) but enjoyed reading the others even more. Very exciting to see how vibrant urban history research currently is

The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 28

This time next week, we'll be in Leicester for #UHG2025!

In the meantime, why not check out our blog series ft. research by early career urban historians.

👉 Aaron Andrews on the past, present and future of urban history (group) urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...

The Past, Present and Future of Urban History (Group)

After a brief hiatus in 2024, the Urban History Group (UHG) conference is returning in September 2025. Kindly hosted by the Centre for Urban History in Leicester, which incidentally will be celebra…

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Publication day for "State-Making in an Age of Revolution, 1830-1880"!

The full book - including my chapter "‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local Authorities’? Implementing Public Health Legislation in French Provincial Cities, 1850–60" - is here www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌇 @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social on urban history from the peripheries urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/u...

🎙️ Isabelle Carter on oral history and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/o...

Urban history from the peripheries

In 1908, the Warsaw Politseimeister General Meier got into an argument with the city’s president, Alexander Miller. The proverbial bone of contention was the responsibility for the sanita…

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 28

❓ Joe Chick asking what is a town? urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/w...

✈️ Will Sanders on aerial threat and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a...

📍 Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, urban history, and story-telling urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...

What is a town?

What exactly is a town? The answer to this question has been debated for many decades by medieval historians. This blog post explores why this has proven so difficult, how the debate is being shape…

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗺️ @emvchung.bsky.social on urban history and the digital frontier urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/n...

🏘️ @historywill.bsky.social on urban history and crises of housing urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/u...

New horizons: urban history and the digital frontier

This year’s conference marks a step forward in the consolidation of the field of urban history in the UK, divesting itself of its de facto ancillary status and propounding a rich and expanding fiel…

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 28

This time next week, we'll be in Leicester for #UHG2025!

In the meantime, why not check out our blog series ft. research by early career urban historians.

👉 Aaron Andrews on the past, present and future of urban history (group) urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...

The Past, Present and Future of Urban History (Group)

After a brief hiatus in 2024, the Urban History Group (UHG) conference is returning in September 2025. Kindly hosted by the Centre for Urban History in Leicester, which incidentally will be celebra…

urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 28

Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB

'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2

Cover for: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now.
Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨 There's only a week left to register for #UHG2026 🚨

Join us @uniofleicester.bsky.social for lots of great papers, fantastic people (if we do say so ourselves), and a reception to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Centre for Urban History!

www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Book your place – Urban History Group 2025 – University of Leicester

The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern Our 2025 conference represents a particul...

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨 There's only a week left to register for #UHG2026 🚨

Join us @uniofleicester.bsky.social for lots of great papers, fantastic people (if we do say so ourselves), and a reception to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Centre for Urban History!

www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Book your place – Urban History Group 2025 – University of Leicester

The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern Our 2025 conference represents a particul...

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 Book your place for #UHG2025

👉 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern

🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester

🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Early twentieth century picture of Leicester's Clock Tower and its surroundings

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 9

📣 Don't forget to book your place for #UHG2025

👉 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern

🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester

🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Book your place – Urban History Group 2025 – University of Leicester

The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern Our 2025 conference represents a particul...

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 9

📣 Don't forget to book your place for #UHG2025

👉 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern

🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester

🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Book your place – Urban History Group 2025 – University of Leicester

The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern Our 2025 conference represents a particul...

www.tickettailor.com

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 4

Papers cover everything from medieval smocks to the London queer scene in the 1990s

#UHGIsBack!

FRIDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

09.00-10.30 Session 4: Parallel Sessions

4.1: Sex, Sexuality and Queer Spaces (Ken Edwards 526)

‘Mapping Eli Pritchard’s Uncommon Urban Observations, 25 June 1912 - 31 December 1912’
Lucinda Matthews Jones (Liverpool John Moores University)

Orientalism, Leisure Culture and Sex work: Cigar divans in Victorian city life
Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp) & Anne Winter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Rebels in the City: S/M exclusions in the London queer scene, 1980s-1990s
Bethan Downs (University of Birmingham)

4.2: Urban Life Cycles (Ken Edwards 527)

Junior Town and City Councils: young people and urban citizenship in postwar Britain
Helen Sunderland (University of Oxford)

‘A Happier Old Age’? Architecture, planning and older people in the post-war British city
Alistair Fair (University of Edinburgh)

School Meal Spaces in post-1945 Britain’.
Isabelle Carter (University of Birmingham)

4.3: Spaces, Governance and Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Bombay (Ken Edwards 528)

Selling Beef, Setting Boundaries: Meat, faith and governance in colonial Bombay’s marketplaces
Mrunmayee Satam (BITS Law School, Mumbai)

Bombay on the Eve of the Independence (1946-47): Popular solidarities and cumulating polarisation.
Robert Rahman Raman (SRM University, Andhra Pradesh)

Life in B.D.D Chawls: Capturing memories and history of spaces
Babasaheb Kambale (Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College)

10.30-10.45 Coffee (Ken Edwards foyer)

10.45-12.15 Session 5: Parallel Sessions

5.1: Creativity, Placemaking and Resistance (Ken Edwards 526)

Gay Centres: Queer social activism and networks in urban geographies in 1970s and 1980s Britain
Katherine Wallace (University of Birmingham)

Images Assisting Wor[l]ds: Black history murals in south and west Philadelphia and the making of black urban historicity
Gareth Millington (University of York) & Irteza Anwara Mohyuddin (University of Pennsylvania)

Reading the Riots: Urban disorder and the right to the city in 1980s Britain
Aaron Andrews (University of Leicester)

5.2: Municipal Citizenship, Property and Privacy (Ken Edwards 527)

‘As if this Act had not been passed…’ Access to Urban Common Rights in England and the Municipal Reform Process, c. 1800-1850
Henry French (University of Exeter)

Common or Uncommon Land? Normalization of allotment citizenship in interwar Denmark
Mikkel Thelle (Nationalmuseet, København)

The Rat and the City: Negotiating urban citizenship and the boundaries of public and private
Mikkel Høghøj (Danmarks Tekniske Museum)

5.3: (Re) Ordering the Urban (Ken Edwards 528)

Deprivation and Assimilation: How the Urban Elite Hijacked the People’s Time and Spaces in Early-modern Norwich
Vic Morgan (University of East Anglia)

Between a Smock and a Card Place: Locating Industries in a Medieval Textile Town
Joe Chick (University of Leicester)

Revisiting the Qazi’s Court: locating ‘urban space’ in the port city of Khambayat
Aditi Mann (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

12.15 -13.15 Session 6: Plenary - The Modern British City (Ken Edwards LT3)

From the Victorian to the Modern City
Simon Gunn (University of Leicester)

Waiting, Queuing, Traffic and Delays in Northern Ireland in the Troubles
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)

Women’s Activism in the Post-War British City
Krista Cowman (University of Leicester)

13.15-14.00 Lunch (Percy Gee 2.20)

14.00 Conference ends

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just one month to go until #UHG2025!

Lots of fantastic papers, plenaries, and a drinks reception kindly sponsored by @urbanhistory.bsky.social

Book your place: www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Urban History Group Annual Conference Programme

RECOVERY AND THE CITY

THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER (ROOM)

12 noon – 13.30 Registration (Percy Gee foyer)

12.30-13.30 Lunch (Percy Gee 2.20)

13.30-14.30 Session 1: Plenary (Ken Edwards LT3)

Urban Citizenship as Urban Commons: Bourgeois Collectivism 1500-1832?
Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter)

14.30-15.00 Tea (Ken Edwards foyer)

15.00-16.30 Session 2: Parallel Sessions

2.1: Water, Weather and the Modern City (Ken Edwards 526)

Urban Consequences of a New Property Regime: the notion of "Public Water” in late nineteenth-century Budapest
Veronika Eszik (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Rainfall, Climate Resilience, and Markets in Limerick, 1899-1932
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)

Thames Flood Prevention in Late Nineteenth-Century London: Controlling urban Space by the Metropolitan Board of Works
Rye (Ryuya) Hashiguchi (Chuo University)

2.2: Welfare and the Post-Colonial City in Britain (Ken Edwards 527)

Intimate Enemies: Stuart Hall, cultural studies and urban Britain
Nick Beech (University of Birmingham)

Lonely Londoners: Race, subdivision and the psychosocial turn in postwar London
Alistair Cartwright (University of Liverpool)

"Race Relations" and Post-war Housing in Britain: Urban sociology and the modes of production debates
Sonali Dhanpal (Columbia University)

Beyond the NHS: Decolonisation, healthcare and activism in postwar Liverpool
Sam Wetherell (University of York)

2.3: Creating Healthier Environments (Ken Edwards 528)

Housing Inspectors in Nineteenth-Century France: the crossing-point between state bureaucracy and local expertise
Will Clement (University of Manchester)

Making Citizens in the Welfare City: The expansion of municipal health care in Copenhagen and Kristiania, 1870–1920
Magnus Linnarson & Mats Hallenberg (Stockholm University)

Urban Commons as a Bridge between the Spatial and the Social: Pro-poor housing programmes in Addis Ababa and commoning practices
Marianna Charitonidou (Athens School of Fine Arts)

17.00 – 18.30 Session 3: New Researchers’ Panels

3.1: First Year PhD Session (Ken Edwards 526)

Forging Identities: Telford and the Ironbridge Gorge
Tegwen Hammersley (Keele University)

Exploring the History of New Earswick: reform, social mix, and identity in a planned community
Sian Broadhurst (University of York)

Fingers Crossed: The National Lottery and urban regeneration in turn of the millennium Britain
Tom Goodwin (University of Warwick)

3.2: Mapping, Movement and the Demography (Ken Edwards 527)

Intracity Transit in Sixteenth Century Paris
Johan Smoller-Marcotullio (University College, London)

Geocoding British Censuses for England and Wales
Guillaume Proffit (CAMPOP, University of Cambridge)

Unended Educational Segregation in the Rust Belt: Arthur v. Nyquist (1976) in Buffalo
Shu Wan

3.3: Protest, People and Space (Ken Edwards 528)
‘Cities are for people, not for private and commercial motor vehicles’: Public and private space in Newcastle upon Tyne’s urban transport in the later twentieth century
Adam Dixon (Northumbria University)

A Lightning Rod for Protest: The ‘National Monument’ in Cork City, Ireland, 1898-2024
Tom Spalding (MTU, Cork)

“Make the most of your leisure time”: Riots, cold War and the Children’s
Playground Association, 1966-1974
Colin Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

18.30 Drinks Reception (Percy Gee 2.20)
(Presented by Urban History, CUP)

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Aug 4

Papers cover everything from medieval smocks to the London queer scene in the 1990s

#UHGIsBack!

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