Paths to Progress: Inclusion, Innovation, and Possibilities Call for papers is now live! MGS2026 is here, and we warmly invite you to participate! This year, the Conference is taking place at the University of Nottingham on the 24 June 2026.

There is still time to submit your abstracts and present your amazing research at the #RGS Annual International Conference in September! 🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026 #HGRG #PhD #ECR

📢Call for session sponsorship, great opportunity for scholars. 🗓️Deadline: 6 February 2026. www.rgs.org/research/ann...

📣 CFP | RGS-IBG 2026 #HGRG invites PGR & ECR papers for the New & Emerging Research in Historical Geography Session! All stages, any place/period welcome. 🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026 More information below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Library historian Wayne A. Wiegand writes about the first "Congress of Librarians" and the beginning of the American Library Association: https://bit.ly/4bvULDy. Originally published in @amlibraries.bsky.social. #ALA150 #ForOurLibraries

I'm very fortunate to share this small, but no less important, piece of history based on my masters research on Nottingham's libraries! Many thanks to the Nottingham City of Literature for entrusting me with bringing this story to a wider audience. nottinghamcityofliterature.com/blog/a-histo...

📯 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

The state of universities… Please sign this petition! c.org/LG24mFcM2c

New article: 'Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States', by @jakehodder.bsky.social . Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003