New article! 'Tracing the shores of empire: Imperial visuality on the Chinese coast in the late-Qing era', by Mimi Cheng (supported by GHI Washington). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.…

Jessica Ratcliff's new book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution is out with Cambridge University Press in January 2025!

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Had a new paper published in Area RGS-IBG Higher Ed yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my marvelous Archive colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

My new book, David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843, comes out this month from Edinburgh University Press. Just got my advance copies. Thanks to everyone at EUP and all my colleagues on the 'After the Enlightenment' project at St Andrews History. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-david-bre…

Our virtual special issue, ‘Contesting Monuments’ is out! Read the introduction, ‘Contesting Monuments: Heritage & Historical Geographies of Inequality’, written by the issue editor Stephenlegg, here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.… Take a look at the issue’s contents below 🧵 1/15

We welcome applications to join our editorial board, from a range of career stages + regional/period & methodological specialisms. We are committed to increase the diversity of our board as part of our mission to decolonise journal practice. Deadline Dec31 bit.ly/JHGBoard

📯Call for Session Sponsorship for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025. ▶️More information, see rgs.org/research/annua… 🗓️Deadline: 7th February 2025

Come join us for our next event! Practising Historical Geography Conference to be held in-person and online at Newcastle University on Monday 16th December. Amazing line-up of speakers, like Ana Zavala Guillen , Paul Griffin , Paul Wright Registration: forms.office.com/e/zJ0Db5Js8V

A great funded collaborative PhD opportunity with my Queen Mary University of London colleagues Richard Coulton and Miles Ogborn and Natural History Museum 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium' Deadline 31 Jan 2025 lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

OnlineFirst - "Weathering energy geographies: Engineering meteorology in the North Atlantic" by Emilia Groupp: Stanford University Anthropology journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

I am giving a 'Be Inspired' talk on my book "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" at the Royal Geographical Society (and online) on Monday 10 March, 2.30 pm. Find out more and register here: rgs.org/events/upcomin…

📯CFP: New and Emerging Research in Historical Geography! Great opportunity to share your research in a supportive environment at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Conference. Please share! 🗓️Deadline: 21st February 2025 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) #RGSIBG25 Xin Yang

🗺️💧 Hybrid workshop, sponsored by the HGRG and hosted at the University of Glasgow: 'Mapping the Histories and Geographies of Water Knowledge" More information about the event can be found here: gla.ac.uk/research/az/aw… We look forward to seeing you on 15th May!

This map teaches us about the worldview of the Romans. It’s essentially an Italy centric world map with a few gaps. Source: buff.ly/2kbmL4D

Paperback version finally out! cambridge.org/gb/universityp…. £23 but with 20% discount using HIST1425 at checkout...

Historical Social Science These books provide two accounts of how to do historical social science. Kreuzer is more qualitative in orientation, Wawro & Katznelson are more quantitative Yet they both press us to think more rigorously about how to combine history & social science

Great to talk to BBC Radio 4 Today programme (6:53am) about our research on rapid anthropoclastic rock cycles in Cumbria and it's impacts. Full paper link: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar… UofGGES 🌍 University of Glasgow John MacDonald Davie Brown Thanks to The Geological Society for funding this research

GES first year PhD student, Jenny Brown, recently presented her research project to members of the Rural Museums Network. Jenny is researching a collection of agricultural models assembled and displayed by the Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland between 1790 & 1855.

Yesterday marked one of the busiest days in the year for our Research Groups, with four groups hosting events around the UK and further afield. Find out more. 👇 rgs.org/about-us/our-w…