last week to register interest for our Blue Speculations group, if you are based near the coast and interested in experimental approaches to reading and writing about coastal futures... PLUS you will get free copies of Eva Meijer's "See Now!" and Ben Smith's "Doggerland" bluespeculations.cargo.site

New review! @peterrmartin.bsky.social on 'Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter', by Charlotta Forss.

📣 CFP | RGS-IBG 2026 #HGRG invites PGR & ECR papers for the New & Emerging Research in Historical Geography Session! All stages, any place/period welcome. 🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026 More information below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great to see this article with the fantastic Katie Parker (@rgsibg.bsky.social) now out in @areajournal.bsky.social! Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Excited for our oral history event on ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’ on Thursday 13 November at UoN Lakeside Arts. Made possible by @royalhistsoc.org Scouloudi Public History funding. Come along to share your memories of Nottingham’s River! www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/living...

We are pleased to announce this week 10 recipients of two new funding programmes for 2025-26: the RHS Public History Grants and the RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/3UB5djw Both programmes are generously funded by the Scouloudi Foundation and will run again in 2026-27 #Skystorians 1/2

Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ ‘“Piling up a treasury of knowledge”: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm’, by Rachel Dishington. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.001 18/31

Workshop at University of Glasgow on 15th May 2025, titled Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge. Info here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... To register to attend please complete one of these forms: forms.office.com/e/ZDzNVeedvb (in person) Or forms.office.com/e/vmJrvmgGSR (online)

Lovely end to the semester - hearing fieldwork stories from @peterrmartin.bsky.social @lauraloubio.bsky.social and other colleagues from the School of Geography (not on this site). Now time for mince pies, Christmas music and not checking my emails until January… 🎄

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

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Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...

New open access paper out in Geography Compass draws on historical geography of science to argue for what we could learn from an historical geography of engineering #HSTM #histsci #histtech tinyurl.com/5v7y38nc

Trying out a new site - I’m a historical geographer working on 19th and 20th century engineering (primarily of rivers, oceans & water more broadly). Interested in science, knowledge & expertise.