Stephen Legg

Hometown bonds, spatial consolidation and socioeconomic transformation of Huiguan in Beijing's modernization Beijing Huiguan exemplify the profound influence of geographical relations and institutional factors on the evolution of urban spatial form in late im…

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'Hometown bonds, spatial consolidation and socioeconomic transformation of Huiguan in Beijing's modernization', by Wang Changsong & Wang Yitong.

Land reform in the home of enclosure: How to right historical land ownership and environmental injustice in England and Wales Journal of Historical Geography

New review essay!

'Land reform in the home of enclosure: How to right historical land ownership & environmental injustice in England & Wales' by Carl Griffin, covering:

● 'The Lie of the Land', by Guy Shrubsole
● 'Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You', by Nick Hayes & Jon Moses

Review | Imperio y reputación: El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo, by David Rodríguez Couto — Marcial Pons Historia, Madrid (2024), 324 pages, paperback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Enrique García Hernán on David Rodríguez Couto's 'Imperio y reputación: El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo'.

Review | Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, by Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann — Brill, Leiden and Boston (2024), 124 pages, paperback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Jesús Israel Baxin Martínez on Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann's 'Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds'.

Imperial knowledge-making: Spanish and Russian modern time questionnaires as data collection tools Over the centuries, questionnaire has remained one of the most effective tools of geographical research. The spread of questionnaire research methods …

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'Imperial knowledge-making: Spanish and Russian modern time questionnaires as data collection tools', by Nadezda Konyushikhina & Victoria Tkachenko.

Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present This article focuses on monitoring and tracking seabirds from the mid-twentieth century to the present. It illustrates how seabirds have been reconfig…

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'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present', by Oscar Hartman Davies.

Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3)

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Nicely done @areajournal.bsky.social !

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

important commentary!!!

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

New paper on ‘detachment’ as (non)relation, which is partly an intervention into debates around relations/relationality, and partly the latest in a series on attachment-detachment. In Progress in Human Geography

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680–1768 As British interest in establishing an outpost in the South Pacific grew throughout the late seventeenth century, navigators and speculators alike sou…

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'From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680-1768', by Elizabeth Chant & Natalia Gándara Chacana.

Review: Moving Crops and the Scales of History, by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy & Tiago Saraiva — Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2023), 338 pages. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Apurba Chatterjee on 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History', by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva.

Precarious place, powerful participation: The historicization of floods and community resilience in Pajaro, California This paper examines the historical-geographical production of flood vulnerability and political marginalization in Pajaro, an unincorporated community…

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'Precarious place, powerful participation: The historicization of floods and community resilience in Pajaro, California', by Ria Mukerji.

Do consider joining us at the RGS-IBG to present some thoughts on maps that mean, or may come to mean, something to you....

It was such an honour working with Katie, the map presenters, and the engaged audiences in these Map Room Conversations. Follow the thread for a CFP for a similar venture at this year's RGS-IBG conference!

Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in Cold War Taiwan's Military Dependent Villages This essay explores the development of so-called Military Dependent Villages (MDVs, 眷村) in Taiwan from 1950 through the 1990s. MDVs were built for mar…

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'Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in Cold War Taiwan's Military Dependent Villages', by @maxwoodworth.bsky.social.

Review: Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820, by Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan — Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2025), The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History, 294 pages, hardback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Charles W.J. Withers on 'Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820', by Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan.

Review: Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in North-West Italy, 1800–1920, by Pietro Piana, Charles Watkins and Rossano Balzaretti — Boydell Press, Martlesham (2021), 324 pages, 26 colour and 91 b/w illustrations, hardback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

William Bainbridge on 'Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in North-West Italy, 1800–1920', by Pietro Piana, Charles Watkins and Rossano Balzaretti.

Spaces of memory, scales of memory: The Equal Justice Initiative's marking of lynching from Montgomery to Montevallo and beyond, 2015–2025 The existing literature on the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice tends to draw on site visits made to Montgomery soon…

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'Spaces of memory, scales of memory: The Equal Justice Initiative's marking of lynching from Montgomery to Montevallo and beyond, 2015–2025', by Tim Cole.

Thanks Stuart! A really great chat, and well under an hour 😉

Happy birthday!

@britishlibrary.bsky.social 👀

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

A Dynamic Timber Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective on Lumbering in Algonquin Provincial Park (1836–1930) Scholars of timber colonialism debate the utility of the ‘frontier’ as an analytic for understanding the historical trajectory of the lumbering indust…

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'A Dynamic Timber Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective on Lumbering in Algonquin Provincial Park (1836-1930)', by R. Alexander Hunter and Roderick MacKay.

Mapping the Great Mongolian Road: The gaihōzu maps as records of Inner Asian trade networks The gaihōzu (外邦図), ‘maps of outer lands' produced by the Japanese Imperial Army between 1873 and 1945, represent one of the most comprehensive cartogr…

New article by Chris McCarthy, Simon Phillips, Troy Sternberg, Uyanga Torguud, Yuki Konagaya, Takahiro Ozaki, Keiji Yano, Mitsuko Watanabe, Buho Hoshino, Adiya Yadamsuren, Battogtokh Nasanbat & Erdenebuyan Enkhjargal.

Timber colonialism in Labrador/Nitassinan: The case of the Labrador boundary This paper shows how speculative activity over the forest can be a form of timber colonialism. It focuses on the Labrador forest at the center of the …

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'Timber colonialism in Labrador/Nitassinan: The case of the Labrador boundary', by Carolina Tytelman.

The European North of Russia as a timber colony, 1890–1930 This article proposes a novel interpretation of the European North of Russia as an arena of timber colonialism of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Un…

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'The European North of Russia as a timber colony, 1890-1930', by Vasily Borovoy.

Review: Photo Archives and the Place of Photography, edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Deborah Schultz — Routledge: London (2025), 227 pages, hardback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Ilaria Scaglia on 'Photo Archives and the Place of Photography', edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Deborah Schultz.

Review: Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives, by Bergit Arends — Routledge: London & New York (2025), 190 pages + 8 Colour & 31 B/W Illustrations, hardback. Journal of Historical Geography

New review!

Noel Castree on 'Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives', by Bergit Arends.

Peasants and proletarians

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