Stephen Legg

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

AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - AAG AAG - AAG Journal Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice - All - The following titles reflect vital scholarship on Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. AAG and Taylor &…

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

@profkdlilley.bsky.social

Shakespeare in Bloomsbury - Yale University Press London The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group   “A spirited dance of minds.&rd...

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury - @yalepress.bsky.social, paperback May 2025
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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....

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg by Disha Karnad Jani

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...

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

(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

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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

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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

Wow!

Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025. Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press) Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press) Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press) The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan) Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press) The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press) Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press) Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)

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

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Welcome! :) bsky.app/profile/jofh...

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 scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au

📄 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

I have just been sent this wonderully witty 'funding' statement at the end of a book review. The state of things! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article:

'Colonialism and the political economy of reconstruction: French policy in the reconstruction of Algerian inland cities, 1837–1900', by Amine Kasmi.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.011

This sounds incredible! So sorry to miss it, have an amazing time x

"George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36" Many beautiful colour maps lie within...
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