What amazing evening yesterday - 5+ hrs! - with Life & Songs of #MartinCarthy presented by so many famous names. Only Martin’s immense contribution to folk & skill of #JonWilkes & team could get so many top artists together - too many to list! Just few in this ‘pub stage’ picture

Time to visit mighty #NationalGallery today & see outstanding #Millet exhibition (free! But only on until 19 Oct) before my evening wrapped up in all things #MartinCarthy at #EarthTheatre this evening. #JonWilks #BillyBragg et al! :-)

Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain. This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking! Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt

Grabbing brekko at Coventry station on my way back from Question Time. Didn’t expect to see this stirring evocation of the defeat of fascism adorning the wall of Coffee #1 #AllYouFascistsBoundToLose

Caught up with another outstanding #LiveToYourLivingRoom concert tonight by the amazing @younguns.bsky.social Thanks all round! :-))

Paul & I thoroughly enjoyed mighty gig by mighty #BlindRiverScare at #RailwayInn this afternoon! Cold when out the sun but they still rocked! Or ‘countried’? Great stuff!

For the British #RobbJohnson… ;-)

Superb evening yesterday listening & watching #LeonRosselson & @robbjohnson.bsky.social #LiveToYourLivingRoom What a remarkable musical life Leon has led & still so sharp & clued up with politics! Robb, of course, a natural to pair with him! Thanks both & #LiveToYourLivingRoom for putting them on!

Could not stay until end - getting bus home but also ‘cos it was v cold & I had no warm coat… but great few hours at #PontardaweBeerFest #PontardaweInn with, yes, fine beer, music & company! Highlight for me: #BoatbarToHamburg…

Certainly don’t endorse killing of #CharlieKirk but wonder how many suffered at various levels of hurt in response to the gruesome nonsense he spouted…

Had moving afternoon #ExeterUniversity remembering #HenryBuller late Dept #Geography. Saw fine folks. Great family here too. To lose him 2yrs ago horrible shock but remembered him so positively today. Thanks all who arranged esp Nicola for heading it up. 🙂 #RuralGeography #AnimalGeographies

Here’s a quick shout out to anyone liking fine ale to #CAMRA multi award winning #SirWilliamPeel pub sandy in #Sandy. Super enthusiastic landlord & some mighty fine ales! Sadly, though, I won’t be there for imminent beer festival. Check it out! See also sirwilliampeelsandy.co.uk

Outstanding live gig in the amazing #HoxtonHall tonight by the amazing #IanNoe! So much great music around… just go out & enjoy it! And Ian more than ably supported by excellent #SammyHarrison! Cheers both (& Ian’s band of course)!

Back to that London today on my week off, to visit stepmum tmrw & #IanNoe concert. But today a walk around the capital’s ’centre’, which got me couple good pics, & fab #EdwardBurra exhibition in #TateBritain!

Okay, it may be Autumn now (brrr..) but mighty #Railway in #UpperKillay still have live music at weekends! So, walked up today in grim rain for another fine 2 hours of music… Cheers! (And it filled up big time when the rain stopped!)

Got mine already & it’s bloody good! protestfamily.com/2025/07/21/e... #SteveWhiteandtheProtestFamily

Another full day fantastic music at #moseleyfestival. Rain tried to spoil it again but less successful than yesterday! Recommend this festival big time. All ace but must note #LisaONeill for someone ace I’ve somehow missed before & #MercuryRev for being amazing still! Got up the front for them!! ;-)

A full day - 11 hours! - of fantastic music at #moseleyfestival from 13 diverse acts. Honestly loved them all - less welcome was the rain! - but the fantastic #fatherjohnmisty certainly merited the headline slot! :-))

Although our fine #Geography annual RGS-IBG conference didn’t finish until 6.30 so I couldn’t catch much at #MoseleyFestival today, #Waterboys headliners were more than up to it. Excellent stuff!!

Most excellent #SwanseaCamra evening with mighty beer ably supported by ace music by #CurrantsBand & most of all by such a great mixed group of positive people! There IS hope for this world… Thanks, I need that!!

And the big room filled up! So, how about joining us at #SwanseaBeerFestival 12-11 Friday or Saturday in #BrangwynHall for some mighty tastes (inc Cider!), cool people & music? tckty.camra.org.uk/e/405/swanse... #SwanseaCAMRA

Just to big up again #StewartLee’s superb #Counterculture series on Radio 4. Excellent overview with so many key figures covered. Fascinating! (And will feed into my Marginal Geographies lectures!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Beginning to assemble the barrels for Swansea Campaign for Real Ale beer festival (& cider!) in Brangwyn Hall Thurs-Sat this week! ;-)

Well done #SwanseaAmplitudeFestival - only caught #WheresMolly today but mighty fine indie band! Cheers… www.visitswanseabay.com/event/amplit...

Superb! Thanks so much #MichaelWestonKing for so powerfully articulating the case against making offenders’ ethnicity public. As he says ‘propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race’! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000. Bluesky: help a museum out

Awesome (thanks Larissa) afternoon - from walking up Clyne Valley with #Larissa to fine music from #JemmaKrysa at always awesome #RailwayInn with its mighty ales! Thanks all round!!

Fab day with #SwanseaCAMRA exploring the trainline to Whitland &, hmmm nearly forgot!, the pubs there and back (well, those that sell good beer anyhow!)… Cheers!

Had forgotten about this: on BBC4 talking about Counter Culture www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Excellent new series on #BBCRadio4 hosted by the mighty #StewartLee #WhatHappenedToCounterculture Highly recommended! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Well done @theguardian.com for this front page on 80th anniversary of #Hiroshima atom bomb… No words needed! 😔 😡

Yet again mighty afternoon #RailwayInnSwansea with excellent #beer & #music! This afternoon was excellent #DaveDarrell doing a superb diverse set with not least mighty version of Springsteen’s River but with much more too. Cheers!

You have to stop everything for a masterpiece! Back from superb (as always) #OpenMicNight #BayViewSwansea listening to some @steveearle.bsky.social from early years & what a song is #BillyAustin - yes, brought me to tears again… m.youtube.com/watch?v=7svV...

Splendid evening #UplandsTavern at #BlindRiverScare gig! Tim & gang on mighty form & can’t wait to see them again at #RailwayInn in September. :-))

Inviting you all: :-))) www.facebook.com/share/19R2aF...

Happy to say @johnnycampbell.bsky.social’s #DerbyRam youtu.be/spZeEMH1LRA beats my experience of it in the city last week! ;-)

Sixth final day walk. Did favourite: mighty #MonsalTrail #Buxton #Bakewell. Yes, flat & easy but I love tunnels, general landscape & see many appreciating it. Weather ‘mixed’. Buses there & back from Derby excellent. Place of the day: #JoinersArmsBakewell facebook.com/share/16pgXP95…

5th walks day. With weather forecast predicting apocalypse, stayed in #Derby morning, then train #Matlock & mostly easy but interesting walk back esp up #CromfordCanal to Belper (good pubs!) . Place of day: #DerbyMuseumArtGallery derbymuseums.org, #JosephWright esp good!

4th day of walks… short one, from #Duffield into #Derby, staying 3 nights, after train from Sheffield (& being quite tired…). V interested to see www.the-land.co.uk. Mightily impressed by Derby ‘real ale’ choice! My fave so far, place of the day: maps.app.goo.gl/UR1kJxEkdvaj...!

Third day of walks. Had hoped to appreciate fully the views from #StanageEdge near #Sheffield but low cloud, v damp & opaque, rather stopped that! Good walk though to mighty fine #Hathersage. Star place: #LittleJohnsGrave (ho hum…!)

Second walking day of my short break… but longest I’ve walked for over a year… albeit quite level for the most part! From #Doncaster through mostly #DonValley / magnificent #TransPennineTrail to mighty #Elsecar. Star place: #MarketHotel, fab!

A few days away… First, with forecast dour, walked two valleys from/into #Sheffield - #Loxley on way out, then soaked crossing over the hills, to #Rivelin on way in. Great, in spite of weather. Star place: Rivelin Park Cafe for that cup of tea! maps.app.goo.gl/P3iue5u841Ch...

Absolutely ace #folk night in #Cafe#9 #Sheffield tonight with 3 ace performances: #JonColey, #TrippersAndAskers, #WillStratton. Cannot recommend venue & its patrons highly enough either!

RGRG undergraduate dissertation prizes - Nominations are now open for this year’s prizes - the deadline is Tuesday 15th July. For more information see: www.rgs.org/research/res...

News, articles and reviews are welcome for the Summer 2025 edition of the RGRG newsletter. Overviews of events are welcome. Book reviews and contributions by PGRs and ECRs are most welcome and encouraged. Completed contributions should be emailed to Aimee ([email protected]) by Friday 18th July.

As always on a summer Sunday (if I’m in Swansea), a long walk to the ever fabulous #RailwayInnSwanaea for summer music from 4! And today one of the best ever - but I’m a fan! - with www.wildeyedwickedandoblivious.co.uk