Important editorial & practical step from @tibg.bsky.social The editors nicely lay out the central problems with citation practices (although they do not mention the problems that come with using Harvard/APA format, which contributes to the name check problem and lax pp. referencing).

The Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG) is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate or Scottish four-year MA undergraduate dissertation in any area of historical geography. 🗓️ Deadline: 22 July www.rgs.org/research/und...

📢 Upcoming joint HGRG-RGS online workshop on using map collections in historical geography research. Free event! Registration required 🗓️ 25th September; 1-2pm www.rgs.org/events/upcom... @rgs.org @jofhistgeog.bsky.social

I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested? onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Great article by Soren Larsen in the Yi Fu Tuan Forum in Geohumanities @geographers.bsky.social Would assign this in ‘Intro to Geog/History of Geog’ postgrad seminars.

Chris Philo also has a thoughtful piece on Tuan and Adorno in the Yi Fu Tuan Forum in Geohumanities @geographers.bsky.social

CFP: Special issue about Milton Santos at Terra Brasilis Journal. The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos would have celebrated his centennial in 2026 and this issue offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on his intellectual journey. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili... 🗓️ Deadline: 31 May

Great to see a human geographer (Prof Martin Müller, Uni Lausanne) interviewed in @theguardian.com Need much more of this in the media. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!

📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎 Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...

Job alert! Interested in a career in libraries? We're looking for our next Graduate Trainee Library Assistant to start in September 2026. A great introduction to the profession and a fascinating and friendly place to work. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ835/g...

Join the PHG Conference next week! This free, one-day conference organised by the HGRG-RGS takes place at Newcastle University and online on Friday 12th December. The conference will have paper presentations and workshop. Save the date! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchiv...

It is here! Special issue on Historical Geography in #TerraBrasilis Big thanks to @patriciasgeo.bsky.social and #Deborah Fontenelle for this collaborative edited journal issue which has been an absolute pleasure to work on. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...

Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'. 📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online 📅 Friday 12 December Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives

📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...

📯 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...