@thelighttripper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Human Geography + RA @OxfordBrookesUniversity. Reviews co-editor@jofhistgeog HistoricalGeography. @RGS-IBG HistoryandPhilosophyofGeography research group. Royal Anthropological Institute Hon. obits editor. @BSHS member. 🕊️💚 and more!
A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily.
View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tempest-anderson-pioneer-of-volcano-photography
Tune in to my radio show at 5pm BST today to hear the fascinating Rosa Dyer from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social telling us all about her research into the usage of bird feathers by indigenous people of South America!
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
Grazie allo #Darwin-DohrnMuseum, Naples: szn.it/index.php/en.... I was looking for traces of Scottish natural scientist, geosopher, town planner, Patrick Geddes's stay at the Stazione Zoologica c.1879-1881, but found lots more. He must have had an amazing wife. #historyofscience #historicalgeography
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Five things we can learn about current English ‘flag wars’ from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s HISTORY MATTERS This is the first in a new occasional series of articles on the RHS blog which show how history can help us to understand our present times. In this first article, Nadine Rossol (University of Essex) explores the power of flags as political symbols in Weimar Germany. As Nadine argues, contests over the use and display of flags have long histories and are significant. Flag conflicts are about emotions, agency and identity. They are typically blunt and intense, going to the heart of citizen politics. Historical examples, as in the case of 1920s Germany, provide us with context for and perspective on present-day manifestations.
This week, for the RHS blog, we also heard from Prof. Nadine Rossol (Essex), on 'Five things we can learn about current English ‘flag wars’ from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s' bit.ly/4pqGZqv
Nadine's is the first in a new series, 'History Matters', providing historical context on current events.
"At a Funeral", one of the many enigmatic images to be found in Thought-Forms (1901), a work co-authored by the theosophist Annie Besant, who died #onthisday in 1933. More on these “synesthetic” abstractions in our essay by @ResObscura here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/v... #otd
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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!
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!
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!
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!
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 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:
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
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
Review article: ‘In search of Englishness’
David Gilbert on:
• Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story – C. Lucas with J. Humphreys
• About England – D. Matless
• England’s Green: Nature & Culture since the 1960s – D. Matless
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.004
(Vol.88)
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A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".
Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs
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The Darwin-Dohrn Stazione Zoologica and Museum in Naples contains this 1837 sketch by Darwin of the gradual separation of species of coral. To a Classicist it looks rather like a stemma illustrating the manuscript tradition of an ancient work. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius was published in 1850.
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Le 20 juin, le Grand Palais et Universcience inauguraient l'exposition Transparence, une coproduction arts-sciences entre les 2 institutions.
Rachida Dati y a déclaré "Universcience n'est pas mort", une phrase floue qui ne rassure pas les personnels après les récentes annonces de la Ministre.
Hier était inaugurée la deuxième phase de réouverture du Grand Palais avec un ensemble d'expositions. Les prises de paroles notamment celles des ministres de la Culture et de l’Enseignement Supérieur, restent vagues, entretenant l’incertitude du personnel
▶️ www.sciencesetavenir.fr/politique/le...
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
New article:
'Cartographic Reproductions: The Franciscan Legacy in Amazonian Peru, 1830–1847', by Roberto Chauca.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.012
New review!
Elizabeth Baigent @oxfordgeography.bsky.social on ‘Silk Roads’ at the British Museum.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.004
New review!
@inneskeighren.bsky.social on ‘Sector 2: Nicosia,’ at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.005
New review!
Philip Jagessar on Jean-Paul Demoule's 'The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race and the Search for the Origins of the West' (trans. by Rhoda Cronin-Allanic).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.001
New review!
Rita Gayle on the reopening of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.002
New reviews!
• Fiona Williamson on Simon Naylor’s ‘The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain & Its Empire’
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.003
• Matthew J. Hannaford on Sara J. Grossman’s ‘Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data & Settler Colonialism...’
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.010
New review!
José Luis Romanillos on D. Graham, J. Shipley's 'Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Selected Texts in Translation'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.009
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
Vol. 88 is out!
It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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Many thanks to Dr Francesca Beretta for organising last night's Classics School Lockdown Translations Unlocked event. We heard creative translations of Plautus, Ovid, Lucan, Rabelais, Huysmans, Pavese, Borges, Suskind, Ritsos, and Goldman. We were joined by VIP guests Michael Hall and Emily Hayes.
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