'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)

Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

James Delbourgo, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now - WW Norton, August 2025 wwnorton.com/books/978039... London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a... #envhist

New review! Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio on Marcy Norton's 'The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.002

‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002 (Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’) 15/16

Please enjoy and share widely this spectacular special issue!

"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d... @davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.

New article! 'Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive', by Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque & Jasmine Roberts. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.002

New review! Sebastian Diaz Angel on Sven Schuster's 'A vista de pájaro: Una nueva mirada sobre Colombia, 1919-1940'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.007

New review! Elizabeth Baigent (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) on 'British Politics and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Vol. 1), edited by Peter Hough. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.008

New article! 'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003

It has a cover! www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosoph...

Thankyou @milo-z-miller.bsky.social for composing this thread of our amazing Volume 89 ;)

New article! '(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005

New review! Rodrigo Escribano Roca on Derek S. Denman's 'Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.009

New article! 'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004

Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.

New article! 'The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century', by Viktor Pál. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.001

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

At last week's members meeting, we voted on ending our dispute. Administrators offered to pause compulsory redundancies until February, at which point they will begin in full what they have threatened all along. Over 90% of members in attendance voted to reject this (non-)offer.

Gutted to miss this!

New article! 'The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg', by Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.010

New review: @milesogborn.bsky.social on 'Tropical Leviathan: Slavery, Society, and Security in Jamaica, 1770–1840', by Aaron Graham. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.003

New article! 'Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270-1824', by Julijan Sutlović. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006

New article! 'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001

New article: 'From "garbage dump" to "true European town": Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)', by Joshua Steele. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.07.005

We are thrilled to be partnering with RGS-IBG on their book series and seeing the first @lsepress.bsky.social books publish next year.

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