Emily Hayes

Book Review: 中国古地图研究入门 (Introduction to the Study of Ancient Chinese Maps), by 成一农 (Yinong Cheng) Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Pan Baojun on 中国古地图研究入门 (Introduction to the Study of Ancient Chinese Maps) by 成一农 (Yinong Cheng).

Those 'classic' Solar System diagrams you see in textbooks are wrong… and we can prove it with a clementine 🍊

Don't miss the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, on 28, 29 and 30 December on BBC Four and iPlayer.

Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-lectures

New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!

Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004

New review:

Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001

New review!

Rudrani Garg on Colin Flint's 'Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.011

New review!

Diarmid A. Finnegan on Claire Blencowe's 'Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race'.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.004

…and last but not least, @alanlester.bsky.social on Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder’s ‘The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work’ and Nigel Biggar’s ‘Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt’: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.010

(Vol. 90)

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Rodrigo Moreno reviews Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel': doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001

(Vol. 90)

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date inscribed Presented by Mr and Mrs Robert Lewin through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1968

Alexander Calder, Black Sun, 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124055

'Our research clearly illustrates that large areas of the country are becoming “cold spots” for social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) subjects, meaning that students face starkly shrinking opportunities'. 1/2

Why academics need to find adventure beyond the classroom The best research inspiration happens organically. Here’s how to free yourself from the constraints of campus and go out into the field

The best research inspiration is organic. Here’s how to step beyond campus and get into the field: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-academics-need-find-adventure-beyond-classroom #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

'Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ continues to shape how we think about idealism and the blurred line between illusion and reality. In this talk, Isabel Torres FBA explores how ‘poiesis' in this novel helps us to understand lyric as a provocative presence in early modern Spain. https://youtu.be/VPBkaO5zYe4

The catalogue of the exhibition “Rooms with a View. Aby Warburg, Florence and the Laboratory of Images” (Florence/Milan: Giunti, 2025), held at the Uffizi Galleries, is now available in English! 📚

➡️ t1p.de/tr0ti

The Clothworkers’ Textile Team is enjoying the chance to choose woven pieces for Meet Me at the Museum, a programme supporting older people and those with dementia through connection and creativity. We’re especially inspired by these vibrant double-faced brocade designs on a Guatemalan sash!

Kunāne Wooton’s sculpture ʻAuamo No Ka Ulu’ which depicts two kneeling wooden figures holding a cracked piece of volcanic basalt on their shoulders. In the background the exhibition's title, 'Fault Lines' can be seen on a wall.

A visitor to the exhibition looks at a short cape in a display case. The cape is made from bright yellow feathers with a pattern created by red feathers.

Visitors to the exhibition looking at contemporary art works by Atheana Picha, consisting of handmade blankets, carved pins and painted drums with photographic portraits of community Elders from wearing these works.

You've only got a month left to see 'Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections'!

Visitors are describing it as "Very moving", "touching, insightful" and a "powerful message"!

Exhibition closes: 21 December 2025

Sign the Petition Save Geography at the University of Leicester

Please sign this petition folks: c.org/gGmGxqWHs8

The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.

Gift of Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin

Gladys Nilsson, Dreaman, 1971
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137840

A pair of embroidered cotton shoes for bound feet decorated with embroidery on silk ribbon and gold thread sewn on. The edge is bound with red binding. There is a gold thread pattern on the sides and a black leather panel to cover the back of the heel with black cotton loops attached.

As part of the @ox.ac.uk Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology programme, student Liangyu Geo researched a pair of lotus shoes 'worn by a Chinese lady with golden lily feet' donated to the Museum in 1927. Ornately embroidered with gold thread, the shoes are 13cm long.

go.glam.ox.ac.uk/t1Wv65GtV

Handcraft a harvest knot with heritage straw worker Penny Maltby, just one of many craft activities to try at our Late Night launching the new MultakaOxford display & trail 'With These Hands', celebrating crafts from across the globe. Fri 7 Nov, 7-10pm. Free but booking required.

bit.ly/46fZNBd

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger

Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager's Return, 1946
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134992

… and last but not least,

‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

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‘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’)

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Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!

sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97

Take a look at the issue’s contents below.

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

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Supporting planning and housing policy reform around the world | RGS

Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science has underpinned policy reforms aimed at improving land and housing market efficiency and affordability 🏘️

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/Ymc850WWLsn

#UsingGeography

The Burning Earth: how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those seeking to profit from the planet’s natural resources.

Congratulations to Sunil Amrith for winning the British Academy Book Prize for The Burning Earth: A History!

go.nature.com/4nn8XAZ

Happy #WorldAnimationDay!

We’ve come a looong way from this, but it never fails to bring a smile to our faces… just look at that tail wag 🥲

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

'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

(Vol. 89)

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'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

(Vol. 89)

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