Excellent performance of Trailblazers: Women Have Always Been Firefighters, tonight at Chapel FM in Seacroft. Audience v appreciative of the interlinked stories and a lively Q&A to end.

Interested in joining Team Urban History? Apply to be our new Bibliographer - deadline is tomorrow, Friday *7th* November @universitypress.cambridge.org

So excited to this in the world. I looked at over 100 black business directories from 1838-1975

📣 New #OpenAccess article available on #FirstView 📃 @kimberleynyc.bsky.social, 'Indexing Negro main streets: Black business directories and the development of urban spaces' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

🔓 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView 👸 Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Griffin Hamilton and Samantha Kidder, 'Cocaine Alley queens: gender, race and drug use in American Midwestern cities, 1890–1920' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🔓 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView 🫦 Paul Borenberg and Inez Mannerstedt, 'Geography of lust: spatial patterns of illicit sex in eighteenth-century Stockholm' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Really excited about this new #OpenAccess book by @imadgination03.bsky.social! "Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally" explores emotional attachment to the historic built environment in Scotland and England, and offers a framework for understanding other historic places 👉 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"The Silent Spring of urban economics" "a revelatory gut-punch of urban history" "a manifesto for reclaiming cities from the 1%." A FANTASTIC review of my new book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981" www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thanks to @urbanhistory.bsky.social! The article is about brewing in England, c. 1600, showing that breweries in Shakespeare's London operated at scales that looked impressive even by mid-18th century standards. An example of the gradual, long Industrial Revolution, from the 16th century onwards.

We're delighted to announce that @williamcavert.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for 2024! The Dyos Prize is awarded to the best article submitted to #UrbanHistory in the previous calendar year. Check out 'Industrial brewing in early modern London' here: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Volume 52, Issue 4 is now out! Featuring: 📜 Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Judith Pollmann, Theo Dekker and Alie Lassche on local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries doi.org/10.1017/S096... 🦁 Anton Kotenko on the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–1871 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hi @urbanhistory.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

📣 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.

Want to know how #heritage was used to open up the #secret #atomic #cities in #Russia? See my article on #NuclearCulturalHeritage in #Sarov/Arzamas-16 that has just been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social as part of special issue edited by Victoria Fomina www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University. ⏰ 18:00 - 19:00 📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus 🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory

We hope to see as many of you as possible at our Lightning Talks in Black British History: the first event of our academic year! Get in touch if you are a PGR or ECR who would like to present, and please circulate among students who may be interested in sharing their work for 3-5 minutes

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

Working on pre-modern customs records, in any context? We're running a session "Quayside and Custom House: Customs Accounts as a Source for Medieval and Early Modern Urban History" at EAUH 2026 Barcelona. Paper submissions very welcome! www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se...

This article came out a few months ago. It's about how the socio-spatial boundaries of towns colonial Sabah (North Borneo) were drawn and transgressed. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

This was just published, also by @urbanhistory.bsky.social, and it's an urban history of coasts and colonialism. I look at why a series of settlements struggled to survive in Borneo from the late eighteenth century. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Of course, if you're interested in histories of colonial and/or port cities you might also find it worthwhile to check out the *previous* @urbanhistory.bsky.social special issue, including a little something by yours truly:

Big fan of this work by Michael Yeo that attempts an urban history from the perspective of (serially) failed settlements.

Oh cool! I had the privilege to take part in various bits of the process that eventually yielded this special issue and I can assure you there's some great stuff in there.

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView 🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView ⏩ @samgrinsell.bsky.social, 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

📣Reminder that the deadline is coming soon!

"Academic peer review can be a gruelling process, but overall I was filled with gratitude to my reviewers, who were tough but fair, and ultimately extremely helpful" This is so lovely to read And you can read @vivdunstan.bsky.social's fantastic article out now on FirstView: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

"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...

📣 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.

📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView 🌱 Jeannette Alden Estruth, 'The roots of inequality: California agriculture and the seeding of Silicon Valley’s technology economy, 1935–1965' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Yeah for @vivdunstan.bsky.social !

📣 New conference report Kaiyi Zhu Yanchen Sun and Boyang Liu, 'Navigating the discourse of planning history: insights for urban historians from the 20th IPHS biennial conference, Hong Kong, China' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView Vivienne Seonaid Dunstan, 'The Scottish urban hierarchy and its interaction with the print trade and venues for reading, as revealed by an 1820s trade directory' doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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

우리 편집자 @shaneewen.bsky.social의 새로운 한국어 번역본이 나왔습니다. 멋진 책 '도시사란 무엇인가?' (Hopefully Google Translate got that right...)

So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.

New book by our former bibliographer Andrew McTominey! 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' is out now and fully open access!

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

New book by our editor Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell!

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

📣 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...

Hopefully this link is working: www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu

The #EAUH2026 call for papers is now open with *100 sessions* covering a huge variety of #UrbanHistory topics 🔗 www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/

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...