📯 The Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG - RGS) warmly invite you to take part in the Practising Historical Geography Conference in person at Newcastle University and online, on the 12th December 2025. Register: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives 🗓️12th December 2025 @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

“A Cultural History of Higher Learning” – this massive work in six volumes is today published by Bloomsbury. Spanning 2,500 years, 67 scholars chart the dynamics of higher learning across the centuries. I am glad to have contributed a chapter on the history of disciplines in the 20th century.

The joy of a fabulously collective “et al.” writing experience with @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social >> to think & write about how we muddle on making sense of the world with & across languages, concepts & theories, including in our teaching, writing & speaking #geography

Geographers: Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2026 AAG session I am organising: "Revisiting race, climate, and environment in the history of geographic thought". docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please consider signing if you’d like to support calls for change by PDs in the German academic system. c.org/kG6zgYfJYW #IchBinHanna

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)

📢New issue of TIBG📢 Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine. 22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026... @laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

#Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!

New article! 'Periodical geography and geographical correspondence in the Naval Chronicle (1799–1818)', by Yannan Ding. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.003

On writing and thinking. Writing as thinking. www.historians.org/perspectives...

#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape' by Rachel Hunt doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS! Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June! Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ Click on the link for the full CFP www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

That’s a first: As I’m reading the Guardian, I see an op-Ed co-authored by someone I went to grad school with 👀

Thankyou to @milo-z-miller.bsky.social for this epic thread, accouncing JHG's 50th anniversay collection :)

Almost ready … 90+ entries, open access … the promises of cultural geography with Vickie Zhang

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

Perhaps of interest to Germanists networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

On the crisis in UK universities (and beyond...)

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... “The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe” Postdoctoral Scholar (m/f/d), two years

📢 Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG-RGS) invites session sponsorship for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025. ➡️More information see: www.rgs.org/research/ann... 📅Deadline 7th February 2025

Books received. On sale for now at @univnebpress.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social

Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG-RGS) warmly invites you to take part in Practising Historical Geography Conference, that will take place in-person and online at Newcastle University 📅Monday 16th December ➡️Registration: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/watmo/

This is a great book for those interested in Enlightenment, geography and Scotland.

The hardback of The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh is currently 60% off with code BB060. That means it's still expensive, but not as insanely expensive as it was before. boydellandbrewer.com/978178327703... [If you still can't afford to buy it but want to read it, send me a DM]

📢Upcoming event hosted by the HGRG. The theme of the Practising Historical Geography Conferences is 'Porous Archives', and will take place at Newcastle University and online. 🗓️16 December 2024 ⏰12.00-17.00 (GMT) Free event! Join us! ➡️ Registration: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/watmo/

This looks like a great opportunity!

🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨 The history of British geography told through the annual meetings of the IBG. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/fund...

This looks like a great PhD opportunity: www.oocdtp.ac.uk/making-geogr...

Are you thinking about the impact of the US election on geographical issues - climate, energy, gender, geopolitics? Consider writing a commentary for The GJ. We publish work engaging with issues of public & policy interest. Get in touch at journals[at]rgs.org #geo #geosky tinyurl.com/mufpf5sy

Today the blog features Steven Shapin writing on Bruno Latour. This piece is drawn from Shapin's talk at the Harvard symposium “Thinking after Latour," honoring the memory of Bruno Latour and reflecting on his work. www.jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a...

Just one word of seeing my paper published at Geography Compass: happiness!!! 🌎 Other Geographical traditions are circulating in different arenas. References has works in English, French, English and Portuguese. ➡️Curious about Brazilian Historical Geography? see dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3...