All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain, opens this Thursday at the Migration Museum in Lewisham Shopping! #MigrationMuseum #AllOurStories Plan your visit here: bit.ly/3zKr68R And check out our feature in London On The Inside London On The Inside below 👇

Great 2 c play From Here On to celebrate 85 years since Kindertransport featuring 2 stories from my book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day see Childmigrantstories.com one about child soldier from El Salvador and one a girl from Ukraine

This is one big element of connected geographies - connections between topics but also between different stages of education and other professions. Thank you GA FOLSIG for being as amazing as always!!

‘THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS’ As long as I live I’ll never get over what a preposterous fud this man is. And to think some of you lot reading this would vote for him if you could.

We are running a fieldwork CPD course on 26 September to help teacher to establish inclusive and accessible approaches to fieldwork. A new academic year has started and it's never too early to think about fieldwork. Learn more and book here: the-ga.org/InclusiveField…

Trip to City Hall (Royal Docks) to plan a new research project. Nice building on the inside!

Go Humanities! #History #Geography

Pinning my hopes on Thursday 19th

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud is extraordinary meditative memoir on landscape and trauma. Stunning writing. Chapter on Orkney, visited with her mother, is particularly moving exploration of core themes of memory, patriarchy and colonial violence. One for (cultural) Geographers

We've launched our second call for Arts and Humanities Research Council #HiddenHistoriesofHome PhD proposals working with Museum of the Home! We're on the hunt for projects that critically engage with the museum’s collections to deepen and diversify understandings of home. museumofthehome.org.uk/explore/our-co…

'If you had given birth to a baby at the inception of the project, they could now be cycling through the Old Street junction on their way to secondary school. It has been London’s longest-running roadworks, a sisyphean spectacle to behold' Old Street! theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Geography teachers, please do share your views!

Who likes kale? Five plants in the back garden have kept us going for weeks.

Bit of a BBC news journalist reading convergence happening in our house

Exciting news 📢 A major exhibition on mudlarking – Secrets of the Thames – opens London Museum Docklands in April 2025. I’m delighted to be involved in some of the planning, putting my research with QMUL School of Geography & MOLA to good use! Details👉 londonmuseum.org.uk/about/press/pr…

The Geographical Association are carrying out research into high quality geography fieldwork for all, as part of our wider advocacy work. To listen to our interim findings you can watch vid / view PPT on link below. Full report towards end of 2024 bit.ly/4e6daoZ

New paper out in Journal of #UrbanHistory. Drawing on my PhD on water in London, as part of a special issue on all things urban #waterhistory. Managing Flow: Drainage and Flood Control in Eighteenth-Century London journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Organising the Institute of Historical Research Centre for the History of People Place & Community events series is one of the highlights of my job. We’d be delighted to see you at any of these events over the next academic year. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Have you walked 'Dr Barnardo's East London' yet? A free audio tour - the product of a recent collaboration between QMUL School of Geography and Ragged School Museum Museum, created by student Inayah Uddin. Available via the izi.TRAVEL app or online: izi.travel/en/98c1-dr-bar…

Any heritage organisations that want to work with Queen Mary University of London students, do get in touch!