New review! Jane Wess on ‘Versailles: Science and Splendour’ at the Science Museum, London (12 December 2024–21 April 2025). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.007

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

New review! Elizabeth Baigent on 'Monet and London: Views of the Thames', edited by Karen Serres with contributions from Frances Fowle and Jennifer A. Thompson. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.009

New review! Carsten-Andreas Schulz on 'Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices', edited by Peder Roberts & Alejandra Mancilla. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.004

New review! Elizabeth Edwards on 'Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography', by Siobhan Angus. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.006

New review! Maria E. Karssenberg on Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013

New review! Nokmedemla Lemtur on ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012

New review! Anthony Picón-Rodríguez on Edgardo Pérez’s ‘El Caribe Cimarrón y los corsarios de Cartagena en la época de la Independencia’. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.001

New review! Leonardo Porcelloni on Antonio Iodice's 'Through the Water and the Storm: Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.002

Kären Wigen, Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Reform are closing adult education centres in Derbyshire and plan to sell off the buildings. The decision was made behind closed doors with no public allowed in the meeting and without a public consultation. Some of the centres have as much as 60% of students from the most deprived demographics.

Bellingcat has just launched a tool for searching through transcripts of local council meetings in the UK, which should help counter acts like these council-search.bellingcat.com

Very cool that the @rgsibg.bsky.social is offering free bus travel around #Birmingham for the #RGS2025 conference! Great way to reduce scope 3 emissions. I wonder what the lasting impact is on modal choice for return visitors in the future... would love an impact assessment!

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

New article: 'Timber colonialism in the periphery: Timber frontiers & indigenous peoples land use in northern Scandinavia & southern Patagonia in the late 19th and early 20th century', by Lars Östlund, Macarena Fernández Génova, Miguel Cáceres & Elle Eriksson. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.006

New review! Rudi Antono, Muhammad Naziful Haq & Adi Setiawan on Harry Poeze & Henk Schulte Nordholt's 'Merdeka: The Struggle for Indonesian Independence and the Republic’s Precarious Rise, 1945-1950' (trans. Gioia Marini). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Paulo Drinot on Elizabeth Montañez Sanabria's 'Cartografía histórica del Perú, desde 1529 hasta el siglo XXI'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.003

New article! 'Humboldt's geographical history: Oceans and Americas in Examen critique', by Josefina Gómez-Mendoza. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.001

New article: 'The forests of Sheet'ká: Failed timber colonialism in Lingít Aaní', by Michael Kraemer, Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.007

Come and join us geographers @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social -- job opportunity 😍 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI951/l...

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

New review: Imam Basthomi & Akilatul Azizah on Jan Breman's 'Colonialism, Capitalism, and Racism: A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice' (trans. by Andy Brown). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.008

Only 2 weeks left to apply for a PhD position in geography of cycling/active mobilities with me at the University of Lausanne! Please share this opportunity! 🚲 🚲

New article! 'Irrigating the periphery: Hydrology, coloniality and counter-irrigation in the Philippines', by Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram Dressler & Will Smith. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.003

Abstract submission deadline is approaching (Sep. 1) for our Ghost of Empire in the North Sea workshop. Read more below or on our website where you also find a submission link (You have to scroll down below the introduction text on the website). www.uis.no/en/research/...

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Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025! 📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18 📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

So "Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia" is now available! Crazy price but hopefully your libraries will consider it... www.routledge.com/9781032949659

FREE ACCESS: Through September 30, 2025, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to vital #scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals, available for download at the links listed here: buff.ly/Zc1yLRV #GeoSky #FreeAccess

New review! Mike Heffernan on Alan R.H. Baker's 'The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.002

New article! 'Where was Dien Bien Phu? Oey Hong Lee's eventful geography of decolonization', by Christian C. Lentz. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.004

New article! 'From hunters to herders: Race, reindeer and imperial expansion in Alaska c.1890–1906', by @peterrmartin.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.008

New article! 'Systematic forest recording using the first cadastral maps: The Brumov estate case study (Czech Republic)', by Petr Dujka. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.005

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury - @yalepress.bsky.social, paperback May 2025 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

New article! 'Housing colonialism: Regulating low density communities in 1950s Hong Kong ', by Junwei Li. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.013

With all due cringe, but huge gratitude to Disha Karnad....

In todays episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg (@stephenlegg11.bsky.social) about his recent @ugapress.bsky.social book, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities.

So, this @routledgehistory.bsky.social will be joining us in August. The combination of two journal special issues I co-edited with the amazing Charu Gupta and Will Gould, ft a stella lineup, listed here www.routledge.com/Communal-Geo...

(1/2) The second workshop in the AHRC-funded Rethinking Internationalisms series titled 'New Methods for New Histories' will take place via zoom on 9-10 July – reflective panels followed by an open discussion. Audience-participants can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

Vol. 88, 50th anniversary issue Pt. I: Historical Geographies ‘Historical geographies: Translating times and spaces’, by @stephenlegg11.bsky.social‬, Yannan Ding, Federico Ferretti, Karen Morin & André Reyes Novaes. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.016 3/31

Vol. 88, 50th anniversary issue Editorial: ‘The Journal of Historical Geography at 50’, by @stephenlegg11.bsky.social‬, Yannan Ding, Federico Ferretti, Karen Morin & André Reyes Novaes. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.019 2/31

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

New review! Álvaro Recio Mir on 'Más tierra de que antes se sabía: Hacia el quinto centenario del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú (1524–2024)' at the Military Historical Museum of Seville. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.006

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

New article! 'Modeling the transformation of France's postal exchange space (1632–1833) through multipolar anamorphoses', by Christophe Mimeur, Nicolas Verdier and Anne Bretagnolle. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.017

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/QwmsGz9cdv

Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏 ⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025 📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] 📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo

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

New review! Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social on Thomas Pakenham's 'The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.008