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 👇

📣 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.

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!

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!

Setting up for #UHG2025 Thank you @royalhistsoc.org for helping us show we know the value of history @uniofleicester.bsky.social!

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

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

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...

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...

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

📢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

🚨 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...

🚨 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 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...

📣 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...

📣 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...

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

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...

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...

Come for the new history of 1920s and 1930s London, stay for the discount... Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders Songs of Seven Dials this week: just enter SUMMER25 at checkout. Book is out on 21 Oct – in time for autumnal nights & Christmas gifts. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o...

The programme for our new biennial conference, held at the University of Leicester from 4th to 5th September 2025 is now available: urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Don't forget to register for #UHG2025! 👇

"Mary spoke mainly of her husband, her children, her parents, her friends – her narrative slipping across time to blur past and present. Yet, Park Hill’s influence over these relationships was apparent throughout" Wonderful post by Isabelle Carter-Pearson on housing, oral history, and the city

"Mary spoke mainly of her husband, her children, her parents, her friends – her narrative slipping across time to blur past and present. Yet, Park Hill’s influence over these relationships was apparent throughout" Wonderful post by Isabelle Carter-Pearson on housing, oral history, and the city

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

'it is the ways in which urban history has worked with other forms... that has made this such a rich and fluid avenue of history to pursue' Wonderful new blog by Isabelle Carter-Pearson on oral history and the city

Book your place for #UHG2025! The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 🗓️ 4-5 September 2025 📍 University of Leicester

Book your space for #UHG2025 👇

My biography of Derek Keene, former colleague and founding director of the Centre for Metropolitan History, now available on the ODNB website (behind paywall). www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1...

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

🗣️ Public lecture On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd

Very excited for the return of @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social conference, this year co-organised with the Pre-Modern Towns Group for the first time! 👇

📣 Registration is now open for #UHG2025! We're excited to welcome you to our first conference organised with the Pre-Modern Towns Group. The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 🗓️ 4-5 September 2025 📍 University of Leicester

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

Great list of recent public scholarly works, including @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social on #UrbanHistory from the peripheries. Check it out! 👇

Another excellent entry in the @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social blog series, by PhD student @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social

How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents? Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw

Designating 'the urban and the suburban could be highly consequential. Areas outside the city limits were neglected in sanitary terms... witnessed higher death rates during epidemics... [& saw] excessive violence' Fascinating new post by Antoni Porayski-Pomsta on #UrbanHistory from the peripheries

New Cambridge Working Paper in Economic and Social History by @emvchung.bsky.social Granular Georeferencing in Industrial Manchester, 1851-1901 doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

Designating 'the urban and the suburban could be highly consequential. Areas outside the city limits were neglected in sanitary terms... witnessed higher death rates during epidemics... [& saw] excessive violence' Fascinating new post by Antoni Porayski-Pomsta on #UrbanHistory from the peripheries

"Placemaking and place-shaping initiatives which look to urban history and people’s connections to it are thus becoming ever more important to the contemporary city" Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, #UrbanHistory, and stories of post-industrial #Hull

Changing the Record The power of paperwork: how do those on the margins keep paper trails to protect their existence, then change their situation through it? 19 May, 6pm, London WC1E Book here www.ChangingTheRecord.eventbrite.co.uk @qmul.ac.uk @onslies.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Woohoo! We received *so many* fantastic abstracts. Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Leicester in September for #UHG2025

Yay!! I’ve had my paper accepted to the @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social conf. I’m really excited to be sharing this research. With James Owens I’m going to be speaking on a 1912 diary of a rescue officer who ran a refuge house for male sex workers & his tours around London. Who else is there?

Register now! A workshop for early career urban historians on preparing article manuscripts for journal submission + seeking funding for turning a thesis into a book. Free & open to all scholars in the field. globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx?page_id=331&club_id=803980&item_id=37685

"Placemaking and place-shaping initiatives which look to urban history and people’s connections to it are thus becoming ever more important to the contemporary city" Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, #UrbanHistory, and stories of post-industrial #Hull

"‘Composure’ asks us to consider not only what histories people tell, but how and why they tell them. A thorough understanding of placemaking policies and practices demands the same" New blog by Charlotte Tomlinson on 'Placemaking, Urban History, and Composing Stories of Post-Industrial Cities'

‘The city had, by virtue of aerial threat and the suffering of bombardments between 1914 and 1918, been transformed into a new battlefront. From this point onwards, the protection of the city and its inhabitants was included in the list of defensive concerns to Britain at war’ New, by Will Sanders

This is - given that we produce histories of places large, small, and middling in various ways - quite an important set of questions. 'Townishness' is more than just a size question - without a clear answer, partly because it can and does change over time. This blog from Joe Chick is worth a read.

‘The city had, by virtue of aerial threat and the suffering of bombardments between 1914 and 1918, been transformed into a new battlefront. From this point onwards, the protection of the city and its inhabitants was included in the list of defensive concerns to Britain at war’ New, by Will Sanders