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Authors writing in TIBG no longer have to include reference lists within the 10,000-word limit. Read the latest editorial - Citational Politics in Transactions - which lays out the reasons for this change, inviting authors to reflect on their own citational practice 👇 https://ow.ly/zJTE50Z4lxV

Recently I spoke as part of a public program on magic lanterns at Yale, and we got a nice write up on the event from Dr. Alexi Baker of the Peabody Museum:

Busy in the building today! We're delighted to be hosting an event with the Network Plus: Shifting Global Polarities team today at the Society, bringing together the UK's leading experts & research centres to investigate the future of language-based areas studies. Learn more: ow.ly/xza250Z1aKE

My new book The Grip of the Ice is now available to pre-order! Telling the Discovery expedition story through 12 lives, for its 125th anniversary. More info: harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

Join this week's webinar with the Department for Transport 🚆 They’ll outline work to better align spatial and transport planning, supporting sustainable growth and better outcomes for the environment and communities. Book your free place 👉https://ow.ly/rKxM50YT7XS

Looking for guidance on writing an academic CV? Join our upcoming Postgraduate Insights Webinar to learn from experienced scholars and discover how to make a strong impression on potential employers. ⏰ Tuesday 12 May, 1.00–2.00pm Book your place 👇 https://bit.ly/4mOyAMp

Interested in learning more about how to respond to peer reviews and other feedback on your work? Join us for our upcoming Postgraduate Insights Webinar: ⏰ Tuesday 28 April, 1.00-2.00pm Register and find out more 👇 https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/responding-to-feedback

News and Reviews featuring @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social @elisefranklin.bsky.social @jillchristman.bsky.social and more!

Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition. बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/6IbjP #Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social

"@edarmstonsheret.bsky.social offers a powerful critique of heroic narratives and provides a sophisticated framework for understanding how geographical knowledge was produced." - Journal of Historical Geography Learn more on the History of British Exploration, ON THE BACKS OF OTHERS: bit.ly/4bk3TcT

News and Reviews featuring @mfraterrigo.bsky.social @jacobflaws.bsky.social @andreamorrell.bsky.social @thomaswolf47.bsky.social @robertkimauthor.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social @neglectedbooks.com and more!

Enjoyed talking to the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social about my book. "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration." You can listen to the full podcast here: geography.org.uk/resources/ge...

The 'Aurora Borealis' newspaper by the crew of Franklin Expedition Search vessel HMS Assistance, on display at the Queen's House, National Maritime Museum Greenwich. In the header is shown Erebus and Terror and a sort of sea goddess version of Lady Franklin. #NavalHistory #Arctic

Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

News & Reviews featuring @elisefranklin.bsky.social‬ @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social ‪@mfraterrigo.bsky.social‬ @tim-manners.bsky.social‬ @jimleeke.bsky.social‬ and more!

"@edarmstonsheret.bsky.social‬ offers new perspectives on British exploration by focusing on the contributions of the people and animals who made possible the journeys of exploration and discovery," writes Jules Stewart for Geographical Magazine. Order your copy: bit.ly/45ylaNL

"A revisionist retelling of the narratives of heroic exploration, @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social‬’s book presents an alternative history of exploration," writes Daniella McCahey of ON THE BACKS OF OTHERS for @hnetreviews.bsky.social. Read the review: bit.ly/45mEiyh

My Worldcon talk on "Fictionalising the Franklin Expedition" is now available to view and/or hear on my blog! Bonus link to a copy of my article on "Comparing Colonialisms in Dan Simmons The Terror and its AMC Adaptation." adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/f...

Delighted that my paper "Frederick George Jackson, Indigenous knowledge, and the 'heroic age' of polar exploration" has been published in the Polar Record. Better still, it's #OpenAccess #exploration #geography doi.org/10.1017/S003...

News and Reviews featuring @mike-stark.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social @janellebassett.bsky.social @sherrieflick.bsky.social and more!

In such times,—and principally at a crisis like the present, whereon the fate of mankind in social intercourse seems to impend—in a situation extremely perilous,—it is difficult for a reflecting mind to forebear expressing its feelings, fears, & hopes. William Macintosh to George Canning 03/09/1798.

You can get 50% off my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" as part of the @univnebpress.bsky.social's summer sale (if you are based in the USA or Canada). Just use discount code 6SUMM25 on checkout. #geography #exploration

New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @farsouthhistory.bsky.social‬ (@ttu.edu)‬’s rvw of @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social (@ihr.bsky.social‬)’s book _On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration_ 2024 @univnebpress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

I learned a lot from @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social's new book and highly recommend!

Thoroughly enjoyed editing my first long read for @uk.theconversation.com, a great piece of storytelling by @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social showcasing his research on the forgotten Black, Asian and working class labourers who made some of history’s most famous expeditions possible.

"Meet the forgotten enslaved and working-class labourers behind British exploration in Africa, Asia and Antarctica" theconversation.com/meet-the-for...

Delighted to have been elected a Fellow of the @royalhistsoc.org! Thank you @inneskeighren.bsky.social for supporting my application.

Earlier this month I visited the excellent "Sector 2: Nicosia" exhibition at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia and have reviewed it for the @jofhistgeog.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... #Cyprus

News & Reviews feat. @mike-stark.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social @brandon-morgan.bsky.social @sidsibo.bsky.social and more!

On 31 March, I’ll be talking with @peterfrankopan.bsky.social about the intersections of #geography, #science, and #history @rgsibg.bsky.social . #skystorians, any questions you would like to contribute? 🗃️ www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

I just came across this amazing sketch from 1909: It shows the US doctor, explorer & probable fraud Frederick Albert Cook talking about his supposed expedition to the North Pole, stating that his feat was only possible because he took "Oxygénée Cusenier" - a famous absinthe - with him! 🗃️🍸

Extremely proud to say they let me back on You're Dead To Me to talk about the Northwest Passage! #histSTM #Polar - tagging in all my #TerrorCamp friends for this one www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thanks, Mia 😃 The talk is tomorrow, 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET. There’s still time to register online! Here’s the link, once more: www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-cold-col...

Happening tomorrow! @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social will talk to use about 'donkey work: animals and racism on Victorian and Edwardian geographical expeditions'

" I can certainly recommend On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration for all readers interested in exploration, cartography, and geographical studies." --- First book review in 'Terrae Incognitae' 🤓 doi.org/10.1080/0082...

Some great seminars at centrevictorian.bsky.social‬ - those interested in @drinkingstudies.bsky.social might be especially interested in this hybrid seminar on the 12th March from Dr. Manon C. Williams:www.tickettailor.com/events/cssah...01

Friends & colleagues! I'm giving my first book talk about *A Cold Colonialism* on Thursday, February 27th, 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET, in my department's public speaker series. The talk is hybrid, so if you would like the Zoom link, please DM or email me. [ The book: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... ]

Don't forget to register for this talk on Monday 10 March on my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration."

From the Desk of @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social: Was Shackleton Different? Armston-Sheret is the author of ON THE BACKS OF OTHERS which focuses on the contributions of people and animals ordinarily written out of Victorian and Edwardian travel histories.

I really enjoyed writing this post for the @univnebpress.bsky.social blog..."Was #Shackleton Different?" Take a look below👇

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford I carried out the "page 99 test" on my book, and here's what I found....https://page99test.blogspot.com/2025/01/edward-armston-sherets-on-backs-of.html

I am giving a talk about my book 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration' at the IHR next Thursday. You can register for free here 👇

Excited to introduce @rgs-agwg.bsky.social new 'Globalising Animal Geographies' online seminar series. Our first seminar will be from @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social on 26/02 1-2pm. Registration open now :)

Looking forward to giving this paper at the IHR next month.

#otd in 1882 the first instalment of J. James Ridge's 'Temperance Pilgrim's Progress' was published, modelled on Bunyan, and describing Sobero's attempts to escape Drinkland and reach Teetotaland. Bunyan's text had acquired maps since its publication, and Ridge's story had one too #dryJanuary 🧵 1/6

I am giving a 'Be Inspired' talk on my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" at the Royal Geographical Society (and online) on Monday 10 March, 2.30 pm. Find out more and register here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...